Zhantai (Platform) (2000)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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Movie Info
The political and social changes that swept China during the 1980s are reflected in the lives of a troupe of musicians in this drama from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke. In 1979, China is beginning to reinvent itself in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, and change is slowly but surely coming to Fenyang, a small town in the Shanxi province. The influences of the West (pop music, longer hair for men, television, privatization) and the adoption of more modern social conventions (birth
Aug 30, 2000 Wide
Aug 16, 2005
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Wang Hong Wei
Minliang -
Tao Zhao
Ruijuan -
Liang Jing-dong
Chang Jun -
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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (4) | DVD (4)
Awesome filmmaking.
Top CriticThe play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating.
An intellectually engaging movie.
Creates a vivid sense of what it's like to be on the remote fringes of a great state experiment.
One of the first masterpieces of the 21st century.
Tells a specifically Chinese story, and yet it does so in a completely universal way.
Impressive though slow moving epic.
A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development.
'The Wait Seems Never-Ending,' is how the title song from Platform goes, and the 155-minute film surely tries one's patience, but the end (which does finally come) is almost worth that wait.
More meaningful to a Chinese audience than an American one.
Comatose is the operative word here.
A small masterpiece of exquisitely subtle filmmaking.
Pleasingly ambivalent towards the impact of historical forces on ordinary lives.
With its long, patient scenes, Jia's film captures the sleepy rhythms of this town and the confusion of these young people who are constrained by cultural forces far beyond their ken.
The film is deadly dull. Tedious.
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