Jia Zhangke's "Hometown Trilogy"
The "Hometown Trilogy" is the best witness to the local changes in our time, which makes Jia Zhangke all the way from a small county in Shanxi to the world.
"Xiao Wu": This is Jia Zhangke's debut novel, xiao Wu, a young man in a small town, wears an inferior suit and does nothing all day, just doing some petty theft.
On his face, he wrote the dazedness and trepidation of the little people at the bottom who could not adapt to the economic tide of the 90s.
"Platform": Depicts the life of a group of young people in the literary troupe in the town. At the beginning of reform and opening up, they were full of longing, restlessness and loneliness.
"Ren Yao": The protagonist is the child of two laid-off workers, they are only eighteen or nineteen years old. The changes of the new era have left them at a loss.
Jia Zhangke said, I am willing to face the truth, although the truth contains the weaknesses and even filthiness of our human nature.
The "Hometown Trilogy" is more than just the story of the director's hometown.
Under his lens, we are able to examine our past selves and better choose the path to the future.