Platform (2000)
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Hong Wei Wang, Jing dong Liang, Tiang Yi Yang, Tao Zhao
Screenwriter: Zhang Ke Jia
Producer: Kit Ming Li, Shozo Ichiyama
Composer: Yoshihiro Hanno
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 16, 2005
DVD Features:
- Region (unknown)
- Keep Case
Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
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Reviews
Tells a specifically Chinese story, and yet it does so in a completely universal way.
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.
The play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating.
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.


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