in the final stages of editing, anderson was dismissed by wham!'s management, the editing team quit, and the film was entirely re-edited, renamed and released as "". according to a 2006 interview with "the independent", andy stephens, manager for michael, said that the film [anderson's version] was simply not good enough to be shown in public: "it's a dreadful film ... it's 20 years old and it's rubbish. why on earth should we allow it to be shown?", although after viewing it in 2008 critic and journalist john harris described it as "a rich, poetic, panoramic portrait of china's strangeness to the eyes of outsiders".