It's a naturalistic, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other march into an irony-rich destiny that even Thomas Hardy might have judged a tad harsh.
If Ms Zhou has time to write the next self help book on thinking big, getting rich and changing your destiny, I'm sure she'll find a market.
Zip codes should not determine a child's destiny, for richer or poorer, or for sickness or health.
We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.
If geology were destiny, Angola, with rich deposits of oil and diamonds and a relatively small population, would be one of Africa's most prosperous countries.
For decades the Italian investment bank has sat at the centre of a web of cross-shareholdings, shareholder pacts and nested stakes that has allowed a small group of banks, big companies and rich families to control the destinies of many of Italy's most important firms.
What comes across in each film above all else is Jarman's deep and unhurried cast of mind: expansive, allusive, humorous, celebratory, rich - character as art, not destiny.
At the very least, the findings give us a better insight into the rich tapestry of influences guiding our destiny.
Thérèse announces her destiny to marry a rich Catholic, and in an echo of Jungman, recoils from Tony when she discovers that he still has a wife.
In fact, her subject -- the mingling of historical and personal destinies -- is so rich that she can't quite do it justice.
"These are going to make people rich, put people in jail, change destinies and lives.
