‘The Dating Game’ Review: Forever Alone Bachelors Cultivated by China’s Former One-Child Policy Get Some Generic Pity in Unfocused Doc
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variety.comJ. Kim Murphy After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country’s economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years.
But the cultural repercussions will be felt for generations to come, even (and especially) in the swiping apps hounded by modern singles.
Violet Du Feng’s documentary “The Dating Game” ventures to crack open this fleeting yet critical online realm, where families are formed and the weary are ghosted.
But coming in at a brisk 89-minute runtime, the feature is awkwardly compressed in its portrait of heartache and easily overwhelmed by the political portent of its subject.
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