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Lorna Singh
12Apr12
A series of events in the day to day life of a petty criminal.Yes,he is self absorbed,but there are scenes about keeping one's dignity while trying to survive.Especially,when friends reject him and he is unable to do anything about it.
simonadp
17Sep11
what i find extraordinary about jia zhangke's cinema is the ability to tell small, provincial stories of characters that happen to be, despite themselves, in the middle of momentous changes in the history and culture of China: the lack of identity, the sense of loss, the cultural displacement with western models and, above all, the violence, the disregard of a political system only able to exploit its own people.
Thorsten
15May09
My second Jia Zhangke. Similar slow style as in Still Life and a similar passive main character. Found it a bit longish, but that did not bother because there are some extraordinary beautifully shot sequences, for example the one in the karaoke bar with his love interest. Also I really missed the magical stuff from the later films (the rocketship in Still Life). This one here is a more strict neo-realism.
Maicol Andrés Ordoñez
12Dec08
You used to be able to see Xiao Wu on this site for free. I don't know what happened.
Kifah Foutah
26Nov08
Anyone know where I can find this one? I have seen all of his movies but this and 24 city.
Daniel Kasman
1Feb08
Jia Zhangke is on fire now, but it is great to see his work back when he was making films in the Chinese underground, unsanctioned by the government. The actor who plays the lead in this has showed up in most of the director's films afterwards, I just saw him in STILL LIFE.