Jia Zhangke

I don’t believe that Syncletica committed any sins as a saint. There’s really no way for us to be completely sure though because we don’t know everything Syncletica did during her lifetime and stories can always be altered when being transcribed or passed down from generation to generation. Based on we’ve all read about her I think she lived the life of a sin free saint. With saying this I also think it’s important to point out that everyone has different opinions of what constitutes sinning and what doesn’t; a sin is a very loosely defined word. Syncletica dedicated her life to God and her religion which I think is a very noble of her. It couldn’t have been easy for her to make the decision to live the life of a hermit after the death of her…

“Still life”, literally called “Good People of the Three Gorges” by Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film released in 2006 and was a winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film (Dargis, 2008). The film shot the scene in the old village of Fengije, a little town on the Yangtze River, which is gradually being ruined by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. It talks the story about a man searching for his wife and a women searching for her husband. The Three Gorges Dam – the largest dam in the…