What Hong Kong cinema can take away from a popular Chinese war film

According to a report by SCMP… In late August, I took my parents to see Once Upon a Time in the Middle East in their small-town cinema on the mainland. Built around an unnamed conflict widely understood to be the US-led Iraq war, the film has become the kind of phenomenon no marketing budget could buy, projected to reach 2.5 billion yuan (US$372.5 million) largely through word of mouth.
Its Hong Kong and overseas release will revive geopolitical arguments over a Chinese commercial film entering a narrative world long… complete report is on link below. Source: https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3367565/what-hong-kong-cinema-can-take-away-popular-chinese-war-film?utm_source=rss_feed