While the official media are flooding television and cinema screens with propaganda about Confucius, ancient fairytales, and kung fu epics, “Wo Ju” engages a broad cross-section of contemporary society, which sees in it troubling aspects of their own lives: official corruption, mistresses, even house slaves. As Song arrogantly says to Guo before he dies, “As long as it’s a problem that we can solve with money, then it’s not a big problem.”
当官方媒体在电视电影上大肆鼓吹儒家道德，古代典故和尚武精神之时，《蜗居》则覆盖了当代中国社会中那些影响人们生活的阴暗面：官员腐败，包二奶甚至是房奴。正如宋思明生前骄傲地跟郭海藻宣称：“只要钱能解决的问题都不是问题。”