Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (2021)

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Spoiler: Hidden Villages

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I don't love the hidden village thing and adding another ancient society (4000 years!) which has somehow remained the size of a village despite people living in it aging at human rates? Seriously? There ought to be basically a major country's worth of people through there, at least. And there's been no technological advancement in that time either? Why do this?

Also, their knowledge of the outside world seemed...unlikely given that it sounds like only one of them ever left and she didn't return? How'd they know what cars were? Or that their ancient cities were so much better than our current cities?

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Eh, the world's got various uncontacted or very isolated tribes that have probably been around about that long with village sized populations. Minimum population required to guard against genetic drift is only 500 or so.

Plus anyone who's watched Star Trek knows that the first thing you do on becoming an enlightened wise ancient civilisation is revert to a pastoral idyll. Various Enterprises tripped over them every few dozen light years.