This film is Jia Zhangke's debut novel. The real debut work is his second-year college study, called to help the photography department, the recording department of the buddy together upside down, starring Wang Hongwei, and later played Xiao Wu, the guy who is particularly authentic.
The film is about 50 minutes long, of which the footage of Xiaoshan walking on the streets of Beijing near the end of the year accounts for about 7 minutes, probably to put advertisers' shouts and the like in. The film is video production, the picture is poor, and unstable, stand-alone filming, the conditions at that time are also like this, this level, now play DV are stronger than him.
But Jia Zhangke's strength lies in his story creation about the mountain not being able to return home. Henan migrant worker Xiaoshan was fired from the job of a cook, his girlfriend went to work as a prostitute, he went to find his fellow villagers to rub rice, but no one substantively helped him solve the problem of returning home - the Beijing I saw was a dirty big farm, too vulgar to settle down, this is the beginning of Jia Zhangke's realism.
He Qiufan reprinted | blog
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