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‘The Dating Game’ Review: Forever Alone Bachelors Cultivated by China’s Former One-Child Policy Get Some Generic Pity in Unfocused Doc


'The Dating Game,' a documentary premiering at Sundance, follows a romance coach bootcamping a generation of men in China after the one-child policy.

The bachelors are Zhou, a sheepish, older 30-something who longs to move back to the country; the stonerish Li, usually wearing a big grin; and Wu, who quietly holds himself to honesty while having little time to date between work. The production seems to have been given zero access to these bachelor’s dates or online interactions; instead, they are recounted as unsurprising post-game chastise sessions, with Hao reiterating his principles while the other men nod along or squirm a bit. The chinks in the armor are most pronounced in the brief glimpses of Hao’s home life; his wife is a lifestyle coach for women and domestic conversations tend to arc towards tense gender essentialism.

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