lundi, novembre 13, 2006

Xiao wu...(13/11)


Jia Zhang Ke is one of the most acclaimed directors in the sixth generations of the Chinese cinema. My first sight to his moving picture is the story of xiao wu, a work produced during his early filming stage...don't know why but the story of xiao wu appears to me a lot like the blue mood in Dekalog 5 of Kieslowski. Both stories talk about a gloomy life of a youth in the city crashed with enormous changes and adaptation. Apparently there is not much hope to the two young men. Xiao wu and Dekalog 5 are lively illustration of the polemic definition of human nature whether it is good or bad. I cannot draw a line between the two, as I believe there are both traits in the nature. The filming of Jia is artistic, and the Shanxi province under his camera was filled with a taste of communist glory and tragedy. There were use of long shot and close up in the film, and without having much criticising dialogue in the film, the sketch of the urban development in Shanxi was already violently denouncing. There is always a mix feeling of being a Chinese in the debut 21st century.

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