Recently, Jia Zhangke's new humanistic documentary "Behind China Meet 1%" released a final trailer, announcing that it will be officially released on iQiyi on November 9.
"Behind China: Meet 1%" is Jia Zhangke's third ideological feast for the field of Chinese culture after "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue" and the Pingyao International Film Festival. The program will explore, discover and disseminate the propositions, spirit and power of the times behind the 1% of independent individuals in all fields of society in a new form of documentary and the unique perspective of filmmakers.
The film focuses on independent individuals from many fields and circles of society, such as Li Zheng, the director of the unique art tide play space, Liang Hong, a well-known writer who narrates the countryside with words, Sun Lingfeng, a star baseball coach in the sports world, and Flammable, a pioneering art designer from the design circle, who will interpret the way of contemporary culture through unique works and emotional expressions, and measure the depth of ideological civilization with the inherent breadth of culture.
As a director, Jia Zhangke has always sneaked at the intersection of light and dark between individual experience and the changes of the times, and his observation of the people of the times has constructed his unique image world, and his unique image world is gradually becoming a special way to understand China, and is also reinterpreting the realism of Chinese films. "Behind China Meets 1%" will break through the traditional documentary expression form on the basis of pouring out Jia Zhangke's consistent respect for individual life. In the film, Jia Zhangke more directly focuses on spiritual confrontation and value mining, and he will take nine propositions as ideological incisions, record the dialogue between the characters of the times and the forward China, capture the resonance between cultural phenomena and self-worth, and present the humanistic charm behind the era of China in a more avant-garde aesthetic form.
In the trailer, Jia Zhangke said: "I am just a narrator who is parallel to the times, just shooting the people and things I see and know, and in the rapidly changing era in which you and I live, I believe that adhering to the respect for the values I identify with will eventually change the world." "1% of independent individuals build the value of the times with self-belief, and even make footnotes to China's trajectory with self-action." At the same time, the theme song "The Power Behind the Scenes" also revealed the pluralistic expressions of China's individual stories and group cultural values under the fate of the times.
On November 9, meeting this documentary that focuses on the people of the times may unleash the power of China behind it to a greater extent.