David Grillo
25Jan12
It's on Netflix
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Aaron Garrett
31Jan12
Amazing shots and use of sound, in particular music. Alternately very funny ("Pushkin"), chilling (the discussion of Piggy while learning to smoke), heart breaking (Cui's miner cousin), moving (the two bookending haircuts) and so much more. I've never seen a film better capture how much of life is determined by where (and to whom) you happen to be born. Never heavy handed. An absolute masterpiece.
Arsaib
3Mar11
Even though Jia is said to prefer the shorter, 155-minute version of the film, here's hoping that the original cut, which runs about 40 more minutes and has been screened at various Jia retrospectives recently, will eventually become available on home video.
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Jake Cole
16Oct10
It doesn't blend doc and fiction like later films, but Platform is Jia's most ontological focus on being, history and culture. He embodies something of all the great modern poets (Kiarostami, Hou, Edward Yang, Tsai, even a bit of Wong Kar-Wai, if only on an emotional and not aesthetic level). No one has better captured China's sociopolitical hypocrisy, and no one has better depicted the aching humanity beneath it.
Vahid Mortazavi
12May10
Pleasures of discovering of one of the best filmmakers of the decade ... Last night, I watched "Platform" and liked it ...