24 City
– Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartmen..
Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.
06 Mar 2009
Mandarin, Shanghainese
Zhangke Jia
Zhangke Jia, Yongming Zhai
Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao
Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats. Scenes of factory operations, of the workforce, and of buildings stripped bare and then razed, are inter-cut with workers who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s telling their stories - about the factory, which manufactured military aircraft, and about their work and their lives. A middle-aged man visits his mentor, now elderly; a woman talks of being a 19-year-old beauty there and ending up alone. The film concludes with two young people talking, each the child of workers, each relaying a story of one visit to a factory. Times change.
5 nominations.
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