Wenguang Wu – Fuck Cinema (2005)

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This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams or become famous through the film industry. One of the main characters of this documentary is named Wang, a young man from the countryside, aged 28. He comes to Beijing out of a love for the cinema; however, all he can do every day is line up outside the gate of a film studio in the hope of landing a job as an extra, getting 30 yuan for one day! During his stay in Beijing he writes a film script based on his own experience in the city as an extra. He thinks his play presents the darkness and desperation of survival in China. Then he wants to find an investor or a director who can produce his play as an “underground film”, because in his opinion many Chinese directors are successful on the international stage this way. During his search he meets some directors and producers (including some underground film people), some famous, some not; some businessmen; people from the film censorship authority; and some students from the cinema institute. In fact, in Beijing his life is very hard, no money, no secure place to sleep. In the summer he has to sleep on the roof of a school dormitory. Finally, Wang fails to realize his dream: never will he see his film made.

Another character is also a young man from the countryside. His name is Xiao Wu, 19 years old. His love of cinema is shown in his chosen occupation of selling pirated DVDs, some of which are quite famous foreign films, for example award winners from the Berlin, Venice, and Cannes Film Festivals. Every day he puts all his DVDs into a bag and goes out on his bike to find his frequent customers, young people or students who are film buffs or involved with filmmaking.

Apart from these two, this documentary also features young girls who dream of becoming movie stars. We learn of their love of film and their ideas about life as they audition for a role.

Throughout this process not only am I the director of this documentary but also a person who is puzzled about why we make films. Of course, I also appear in this documentary, and never hide my bewilderment, or the conflicts between my characters and me. For example, Wang accuses me of using his miserable story to enhance my own reputation.

Fuck Cinema 2005 Longer Cut WEB-DL AAC2.0 x264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 53 min
Size: 	2.09 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x540 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 463 kb/s
BPP: 	0.151
Audio
#1:  	Chinese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/A71C9372C685078/Fuck_Cinema_2005_Longer_Cut_WEB-DL_AAC2.0_x264.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:Chinese (Hardcoded), English (.srt)