I was sipping boba in Sydney’s Chinatown when my cousin from Shanghai sent me that viral Weibo trailer for ‘The Encounter’ – you know, the one where middle-aged Huang Yuqi (played by Jia Bing) swaps souls with his 18-year-old self (Wang Hao). The screen froze at the exact moment pink-haired Huang started breakdancing in his office, leaving me staring at the dreaded ‘This content is unavailable in your region’ message.
That buffering wheel of doom has become the unofficial symbol for us overseas Chinese trying to watch domestic content. Last Mid-Autumn Festival, my family’s group chat exploded with clips from this exact comedy – my aunt describing how Huang’s teenage soul makes him challenge his boss to a rap battle, while I could only imagine the scene through her typos and crying-laughing emojis.
The irony? ‘The Encounter’ is all about failed communication – a 43-year-old and his younger self struggling to live each other’s lives. Meanwhile, we’re out here playing digital charades with VPNs at 3AM, trying to decipher if that pixelated screenshot shows Huang wearing his son’s school uniform or a straitjacket (plot twist: it’s both).
My Melbourne friend Linda has turned this into an art form – she once reenacted an entire episode of ‘Sisters Who Make Waves’ using kitchen utensils when her VPN crashed. ‘The colander is Ning Jing’s hat,’ she insisted while waving a spaghetti spoon microphone. At this point, we deserve honorary Oscars for our buffering-inspired performance art.
What makes this especially cruel is how perfectly ‘The Encounter’ captures those universal moments – whether you’re 18 or 43, Chinese or diaspora, we’ve all had that panic of ‘how do I pretend to be competent at adulting?’ The movie’s tagline – ‘They promised to behave… and failed spectacularly’ – might as well be the motto for every expat trying to stream content abroad.
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