It was worth the decade-long wait for Jia Zhangke’s portrait of Shanghai, I Wish I Knew
I Wish I Knew, a 2010 documentary shot in Shanghai, closes with two starkly contrasting views: one from the observation deck of the Shanghai World Financial Center (the highest in the world at the time of filming), the other from a nondescript railcar in transit. These images, both concerned with development, are…