Platform
by Zhang Ke Jia
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Actor: Bo Wang, Hong Wei Wang, Jing Dong Liang, Tao Zhao, Tian Yi YangDirector: Zhang Ke Jia
Audio: English (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Platform
Movie Review: Saw it 8 years ago and I still think about it!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a truly magnificent film... if you're a fan of a certain kind of film. As the title of my review should make clear, the movie really had an impact on me. To this day I find myself thinking about some of the emotional responses in triggered while I was watching it.
It is a slow film (my wife fell asleep during it and she's a fan of many slow arthouse films) and only when looking back at it do you see that it does have a plot - but it certainly isn't a "plot" based movie. Nor is it a rich, sumptuous, colorful, lyrical film like Wong Kar Wai or even Terrence Malick. It's a character piece that unfolds with (upon later reflection) intricately designed and evolving camera work. It's not a flashy film by any means but I found that it had so much to say - and so deeply moved me by the end - that I can't forget it.
Zhangke Jia is one of the most important Chinese filmmakers and so it's also worth watching if you want to see the defining figure of the 6th generation ( (I think he's 6th generation - a Chinese cinefile will correct me if I'm wrong) of Chinese cinema.
Summary of Platform
""One of the most important directors working today." -Dennis Lim, The Village Voice"Essential Viewing... One of the most impressive Chinese films I've ever seen." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"Expansive and undeniably brilliant." -Ken Fox, TV Guide Online
The masterpiece of the New Chinese Cinema, Jia Zhang-ke's monumental Platform spans the turbulent 1980s by following four performers in the state-run Peasant Culture Group. Based in Fenyang, the director's hometown in the remote western province of Shanxi, these "art workers" praise the late Chairman Mao with approved revolutionary classics. When Deng Xiao-ping institutes an "open door" cultural policy and China begins to move toward Western-influenced consumer capitalism, the newly privatized group starts to sport spandex and play electric guitars. It's sex, cigarettes and rock-n-roll. until dreams are deferred. Platform, the precursor to Jia's Unknown Pleasures, offers vivid insight into modern China. Rich in detail and beautifully shot, Jia's epic yet intimate film exquisitely conveys a sense of time passing and ineluctable change.
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