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Dot 2 Dot (2014)

This film is the definition of a wasted opportunity. It's too short, it deals with too many different subject matter while never really meaningfully discussing any of them, and it's direction and cinematography at times are beautiful and at others fall short. This is not a good film, and that's a real shame because it could have been something special. Dot 2 Dot by Amos Why ( Napping Kid ) is a hit or miss film very much like the previous Chinese film I reviewed Tik Tok . It's a film about a woman who moves to Hong Kong to help teach language (I believe it's another form of Chinese although I could be wrong). When she moves there she feels alienated and grows obsessed with solving dot to dot puzzles left behind by a man obsessed with his childhood. That plot actually sounds really interesting, but this isn't really how it plays out; instead the film loosely follows that narrative while introducing other story beats that don't really amount to much. I th