Bon Appetiteand the Chinese Dream What caught my attention first was the name of the movie: Times As it turned out, the movie was not about or for children. It about the comingofage of four college girls sharing their lives, dreams and more in Shanghai, China glittering financial capital. Nothing really path breaking about the plot, you would say. That what I thought as well. In different versions, Hollywood has done the story occasionally replacing boys with girls to a very slow death. Not only is it doing big business here some USD 80 million till now it has triggered a big, big debate about generation gap and on the noholdsbarred consumerism often associated with the Communist country rich, singlechild, urban youngsters. And, which, the movie ecstatically shows in its shimmering scenes. It has also oddly polarised film critics; flagship newspapers of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have supported the movie but it has come in for severe criticism from those who write on movies in comparatively more liberal spaces. have seen 6,000 or 7,000 movies, and this is one of the few that I hate.