VIOOLET du Feng’s Dating game It was first shown at the 2025 Sandans Film Festival.
Photo: Wei Gao
The colorful surfaces and the raid are almost of violet de feng Dating game Dormy reality mask, Dystopian. In the wake of the efforts made by three young bachelor to know how to attract women under the tutelage of the professional dating coach, the documentary (which was first shown in Sandans) presents a unique perspective at the ground level on a sad social phenomenon: after nearly a decade of the end between China’s single policy, the number of men in the country exceeds 30 million, which makes the idea of starting family feel like a free cruelty for everyone. This doubles from other factors, including the fact that many rural children have been left in the villages when their parents left to work in cities during rapid urbanization in the country. “This whole generation arose without love,” someone notes.
Not only without love, but often without the ability to communicate with the opposite sex, or be open to one’s emotions. At some point, we see collective gatherings for parents in public parks that are looking for their colleagues for their children, and put the bulletins with the relevant details for each possible wife; The children themselves feel shy personally. There are also events to reconcile the government, as party officials welcome the participants as important pillars of the nation, because they understand that increasing birth rates is very important to ensuring a “harmonious society”. They are not wrong. Historically, men’s surpluses tend to be a great social instability.
Du Feng is focusing on Hao, a coach who is quickly dating back and speaking (one of the most stake in China, clearly) in the sprawling city of Chungzings. They cost them to convert three single men into confident and potential colleagues, and it makes them end with new haircuts, new clothes, and a complete new collection of social media. He teaches them about the “payment technique”, which is a way to complete the girl who is talking to her at the same time, to keep her not sure of your interest. Then there are fake pictures: a full set of social media images and information designed to show a kind of life and a personality that these people do not have. These young people do not play the golf game, but Hao makes them take pictures playing golf, because “girls like men who move.” They go to a dog home and take pictures with affectionate fangs, because “girls love cute animals.”
The disgraceful nature of these exercises does not disturb Hao, but his students sometimes do the sound that is required to embrace; They may be inexperienced, but they are not stupid. It looks sweet and real – it’s completely open to the Du Feng camera, where it has been well thoughtful about feeling lonely and embarrassed, and what they hope to find in the husband. Some of their ideas are very traditional, which adds an additional inconsistency to their transformation like happy urban. The general feeling that one gets Dating game It is hopeless of dirty. It is difficult to imagine any of these people who find love in such a feverish and surface place. This is an overwhelming awareness. The film also deepens the rise of virtual dating games, as a fake digital lover provides online companions for lovesick users. These users are not an illusion: they know that these cyber loved ones are not real. But they provide a replica of the affection that, whatever the manufacturer, does not know many people how to find another place.
On the horizon, all these reactions are the fact that social movement is very difficult in China. One of the clients states that the appropriate date may cost half of his month’s salary. Hao feeds on the naive of these men. Despite all this smooth conversation, it seems that a lot of training focuses on sending his students to crowds to ask the slums about whether they can add them to the Chinese social media application. These scenes, as our shy heroes wander through Plazas until they ask fully strangers with anxiously and embarrassing whether they can be friends online, playing like humiliation rituals.
Hao is not quite a mud ball. More than anything, it may be a reflection of his era. “Most of the clients are considered failures, but they should not deny love,” he noticed, noting that most of his agents of more than 3000 customers are of the working class, which puts them very low in the eligibility chain. He presents himself as an example that his techniques work. He admits that he was terrible in talking to girls, and he is stumbling with a poor job, money, and no horizons, before he wanders in a player. His wife, Wayne, who is also a relationship and a self -improvement, remembers that the slow Hawa did it clearly seemed to be a engine when they first met. She has seen through him, as she claims – but hey, they ended up together. (Will they remain together at the end of this movie? This is a different question.)
But perhaps this is the real goal: not to present yourself as a person, not you, but to present yourself as a person ready to lie about your identity, because it shows a level of commitment. Looking at half of the fake realism that governs all our lives on social media, there may be a dark reality that works under the surface shown in this film. In a false world, who is interested in being real? Dating game It picks up this idea in a chilling way.
