From The Naked Gaze 肉眼 blog:
In one scene in Jia Zhangke’s (Ë¥æÊ®üÊüØ) The World (‰∏ñÁïå) (2004), the jealous Niu (Jiang Zhongwei) considers giving his girlfriend Wei (Jing Jue) a new Motorola cell phone with a GPS chip so that he can keep track of her whereabouts when he isn’t around (he is increasingly annoyed because he keeps finding her cell phone turned off whenever he tries to call her). In another subplot, the protagonist Tao (Zhao Tao) inadvertently discovers her own boyfriend Taisheng’s infidelity via a text message sent to his cell phone by his lover (this latter plot twist mirrors the well-known premise of Feng Xiaogang’s (ÂÜØÂ∞èÂàö) movie Cell Phone (ÊâãÊú∫) from the previous year, in which the protagonist’s infidelity is discovered by his wife as a result of an ill-timed text message from his lover). [Full Text]
