Initially, I don't like the title of this sequence of Chinese documentary. It sounds too Japanese. Well, it turns out to be some interesting movies, reflecting various classes in nowedays China. Today we saw Hu Xinyu's "Shit Man" and Huang Weikai's "Floating". The first one is kind of hardcore. It portraits a lifestyle without hope, a couple of self-centered men living in a dirty industrial city Taiyuan. The whole movie is very heavy and presses the audience to the ground. People suffer because of their own choices made and they blame everything except themselves. This is not a film about depressed sex desire although it throws a lot of dirty jokes and conversations about it; it rather focuses on the aimless life and self-constructed man ego under the risk of burnout.
The Floating is a lot more articulate and smooth. The street singer's life run through us and the small struggles of this 30 years old man are familiar to most of us, ambition, love and survive. The good thing about it is its quality of shooting, even though the director is not fully aware of them. In the Q&A section, many audiences give credits to the documentary's beautiful shots, but the director seems kind of confused.
I don't know much about the history of chinese documentary film and so I can not make judgement about the quality and significance of the three films showed here. Nevertheless, it is good to know some people are working on these facinating projects, about the changing society and its people, about a nation with endless potential, and about unintended consequences of gloabalization in our land.
2006年3月25日星期六
Floating lives
Initially, I don't like the title of this sequence of Chinese documentary. It sounds too Japanese. Well, it turns out to be some interesting movies, reflecting various classes in nowedays China. Today we saw Hu Xinyu's "Shit Man" and Huang Weikai's "Floating". The first one is kind of hardcore. It portraits a lifestyle without hope, a couple of self-centered men living in a dirty industrial city Taiyuan. The whole movie is very heavy and presses the audience to the ground. People suffer because of their own choices made and they blame everything except themselves. This is not a film about depressed sex desire although it throws a lot of dirty jokes and conversations about it; it rather focuses on the aimless life and self-constructed man ego under the risk of burnout.
The Floating is a lot more articulate and smooth. The street singer's life run through us and the small struggles of this 30 years old man are familiar to most of us, ambition, love and survive. The good thing about it is its quality of shooting, even though the director is not fully aware of them. In the Q&A section, many audiences give credits to the documentary's beautiful shots, but the director seems kind of confused.
I don't know much about the history of chinese documentary film and so I can not make judgement about the quality and significance of the three films showed here. Nevertheless, it is good to know some people are working on these facinating projects, about the changing society and its people, about a nation with endless potential, and about unintended consequences of gloabalization in our land.
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