The Dating Game

Watched at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Decent documentary that explores the modern dating culture and life for a few individuals in China and how the One Child Policy has changed the scene. With a good sense of humor and realism, the documentary focuses on a few group of men who are both endearing and funny to explore. Characters that may be seen as idiotic to many, but still remaining interesting and investing to observe throughout.

Chinese dating aspects aren't talked much and I do applaud Director Violet Du Feng for offering a fun exploration of the subject. However, I gotta be honest, I did wish Feng had explored some of the other aspects like more the toxic aspects of the dating guru and the issues that people are going through. Because of this, the documentary does end up being aimless at times and certain musical choices are pretty distracting.

As a whole, it's a solid documentary that could have been better.