I was halfway through making popcorn when my cousin in Vancouver video-called me, her face pixelated with frustration. ‘Have you seen the new Ron Howard director’s reel for Eden?’ she groaned. ‘It keeps buffering every 10 seconds!’ Behind her, I spotted the familiar ‘This content is not available in your region’ error on her laptop screen – a modern-day version of being stranded on the movie’s deserted island setting.
The newly released behind-the-scenes footage for Howard’s psychological thriller shows actors enduring actual typhoons and 40°C heat while filming. ‘We wanted the environment to be a character,’ the Oscar-winning director explains in the featurette. Watching the actors’ sunburnt faces and sweat-drenched shirts, I suddenly understood my cousin’s desperation – when cultural content becomes as inaccessible as this fictional island, it creates its own kind of extreme survival scenario.
What makes this particularly ironic? Eden’s plot revolves around people trapped in an isolated environment, forced to reinvent their social rules. Meanwhile, overseas Chinese viewers are inventing VPN workarounds just to watch the movie’s trailer. The behind-the-scenes footage reveals crew members getting creative with camera angles during actual storms; we expats get equally creative finding backdoor streaming solutions.
The film’s tagline – ‘Extreme environments reveal extreme humanity’ – takes on new meaning when you’re three timezones away from legal access to new releases. My cousin eventually gave up and asked me to screen-share the footage over Zoom, the video quality deteriorating like a dying flashlight in one of Eden’s cave scenes. ‘Next time,’ she joked weakly, ‘maybe the movie should be about people trying to bypass geo-restrictions.’
There’s something poetic about a film examining human adaptability being itself a test of viewers’ adaptability. As Howard discusses how the cast had to ‘find new ways of being’ under brutal conditions, I thought about all the international students watching Chinese variety shows through third-party sites, or families sharing Netflix logins across continents. Maybe our real-life workarounds aren’t so different from the survival strategies in Eden after all.
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