Slowly working through Wandering Earth, the lion kingdom is reminded how Americans strangely appreciate Chinese culture in Chinese movies: no immigration, no imported goods, no heroine leaders, but reject it when shown in their own movies. It's the ages old support for progressive ideas that only exists during election years & when they want it to exist.

The women are all incompetent. The father figure exercises complete control over the family. The cast is entirely native chinese, absolutely no foreigners except for 2 Russians in space who die. Every prop is made in China. Absolutely nothing is imported.

It reminds lions of the very closed system China is historically known for. The mane confusing point for lions is how the characters want to reunite with their families while the government wants to draft them into rescuing the planet. The 2 sides fight, even though they're all going to die if they don't rescue the planet. It's like they tried to symbolize an ages old conflict between land owners in China & infrastructure projects, but apparently the conflict is much bigger in China than it is h.e.r.e., because it's just confusing..