A slow moving film, though not quite boring, The World (2004) is about a Chinese amusement park, that has replicas of many of the globe's landmarks---The Eiffel Tower, the great pyramids, NY City etc---called The World. It focuses on a few workers there and the mundanity of the lives they lead working in such a place, for low wages and no room for promotion (unless you sleep with management).
It is not a film that moves quickly, and there is good and bad in that. The movie has the time to explore the workers lives in more depth, and it is not emotionally manipulative at all, letting the few times of emotion be very real. However, it is also at times hard to keep interest, because really, how exciting are our lives, if someone filmed us eating our meals and going through our day to day stuff?
The place where The World is filmed has to be a real tourist attraction, and seeing it is interesting and amusing. You can imagine the tourists visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Sphinx all in a few hours. But that does not save this movie from being almost, though not quite, boring.
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