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06/06/08
Platform (2000)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:15
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Theatrical Release:Mar 14, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Examining the transition in 1980s China away from Maoism and socialism and towards commercialism, Westernization, and popular culture, PLATFORM comes from director Jia Zhang Ke. The film follows a... [More]
Starring: Hong Wei Wang, Jing dong Liang, Tiang Yi Yang, Tao Zhao
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
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12/30/06
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12/06/05
Tells a specifically Chinese story, and yet it does so in a completely universal way.
09/23/05
Impressive though slow moving epic.
08/05/05
A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development.
05/23/04
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03/24/04
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12/15/03
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12/01/03
'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.
10/21/03
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10/02/03
More meaningful to a Chinese audience than an American one.
03/18/03
Comatose is the operative word here.
03/16/03
Awesome filmmaking.
03/14/03
Top CriticA small masterpiece of exquisitely subtle filmmaking.
03/13/03
The play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating.
03/11/03
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08/20/02
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08/06/02
Pleasingly ambivalent towards the impact of historical forces on ordinary lives.
08/05/02
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.
06/18/02
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