Dragonfly Eyes (2017) User Reviews

Not Cliche Enough

[xingyejun21 · 7/10 · 16 March 2021]

Not Cliche Enough. And if it is done with AI editing, it could be better.

Hard core 'fiction' film

[kinnchan · 9/10 · 30 September 2018]

A experimental documentary which reveal a critical situation of Chinese human rights. Human no shadow. Shadow no trace. Surveillance cameras are everywhere.

Silent dictatorship, big brother eyes!

[blossoms-of-freedom · 9/10 · 21 September 2023]

Nothing to say, I wish I saw this at 2017 not at 2023 that my country also became like China, stand with us and change the world . . .

WOMAN * LIFE * FREEDOM

This film is showing us the negative effect of damn communist dictator government on nervous system of people, showing that Chinese people became more mad and violent, there is lots of car crashes etc . . .

By the way because of misusing natural recourses and hazardous technologies of there, man made climate change (climate destruction) is more bold as we can see in the film .

At the end I wish the whole world to be free ♥ Freedom and liberty for all.

Inspiring and horrifying

[v612 · 9/10 · 24 April 2022]

23.03.18 Dragonfly Eyes So inspiring and pointing out some horrifying facts that we tend to choose to neglect. Lucky to be able to have a Q&A session with the director, which he pointed out some major concepts on making this film.

• The film was made entirely with FOUND footages, including dash cams, surveillance cams, and live broadcast platforms. None is directed or choreographed, which raises questions in feature film-making, which certain formulas or principles in making feature films are clearly violated in this film - there are no actors.

• Actors do not exist in this film, several people with different corporeal bodies came to be presented as the one character: which the story of the character have nothing to do with their respective lives. (They are her, yet they are not her)
• The director asked different filmmakers about opinions regarding the idea of making this film, which was regarded as 'impossible', as there are no actors, making the building up of a storyline difficult. So instead, the director decided to tell a story about plastic surgery, so that footage with different people can be used (lol

• Raises questions in regarding the relationship between surveillance, body features, what's inside the body and truth. What is the truth? - an interesting point about surveillance and truth is that how truth is perceived: if we preserve all surveillance footage for people 100 years later from now to watch, is that the 'truth'?

• The use of the media (livestreaming room) is different from other types of medias in a way that there is interaction between the host and the viewers. The act of the live broadcast is also part of the lives of the hosts, different from surveillance
• Even during the making of the film, the concept of "surveillance" is constantly challenged by the technological advancement- new ways of surveillance (car cams, cams police wear on their bodies...)

• Different ideas are constantly being challenged in this changing world, like concepts of humans, humanity......
• A film like this can only be made in this particular time: 'it's like how uber doesn't own a car, yet millions of cars work for uber' (surveillance cameras)
• The story is created and then footage is found, and while finding the footage the story is altered, so it's two way in the creation of the film
• The earliest footage dates back to 1999, so the footage exists before the idea of making this film appears

• Kefan's love for Qingting is abnormal and extreme so that he transforms into her, he is trying to use the perspective of the person he loves most to view the world.