Why We Are Unhappy in Cities Poster

Why We Are Unhappy in Cities: Directed by Zhao Gang. With Naomi Ying Bushaw, Sanming Han, Cheng Hao, Jin Lei. A youth's life falls into chaos following the breaking of his beloved lighter: his lover leaves him and he loses his job. The youth desperately seeks for a way to fix his lighter as a way to mend his ruined life, but in the process ends up losing the lighter itself. When the youth finally sees his lighter again, he already has a newly born child, yet seeing the lighter in the hands of a stranger causes the youth to take desperate action - This is a movie that explores the relationship between people and things, and at the same time is a fable about city life.