At the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party propaganda movie-musical “The Wings of Songs,” a tune is playing, and there are attractive people frolicking. But, unlike “The Sound of Music,” the frolicking and the music never match. We have just been introduced to three boyish members of a band, the film’s protagonists, who are performing at the quarter-finals of a “Voice of China”-style competition show. We see them playing an accordion, a guitar, and percussion. We hear… almost none of that.
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