Electric Shadows is like the Chinese Cinema Paradiso, but worse in every way. It feels more constructed and less real, more one-dimensional and less robust, and more senselessly sad without being as powerful. This movie is really good, but it's already been done before, and better. Except I think this movie has one thing that Cinema Paradiso does not have--a vastly different location, which allows for a completely different world to be immersed in. The director uses it to his full advantage at every possible moment. Fields of shiny white flowers, windy sand dunes, cobbled streets and tiled roofs, and inimitable Asian faces: the cut terrain of the aged and the porcelain curves of the youth. The shot compositions are mesmerizing. It's a completely different, refreshing, and vibrant experience.IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0424273/