Platform (2000)
- Original title
- 站台
- Directed by
- Jia Zhangke
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, France, Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 99 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of young performers in a small Chinese town navigate their personal lives and careers over the course of a decade. They face the slow changes brought by modernization and shifting social norms.
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What happens
Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China (Jia's birthplace), from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform. Platform has garnered wide acclaim from critics in the years since its release, and is often named one of the greatest films of the 2000s. The film has been called the masterpiece of the entire "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, although the movie has never been publicly released in China due to its being made outside of official state approval. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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