A period of driving school life, twists and turns, but one by one, the dark war between the five people are also with the smooth clearance of the exam and the end. This experience of driving school involved five people’s joys and sorrows, in addition to learning the rules of driving, it seems to learn the rules of survival.Read More »
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Shi Ba is an alienated youngster living by himself in Beijing. He quits his “iron-rice-bowl” job arranged by his late high-ranking parents and becomes a private entrepreneur. While he is wandering in a Beijing subway station one day, he meets Yu Jing, a pretty dance student. Their relationship soon leads to cohabitation. Shi Ba’s involvement with some illegal business brings him wealth and threats of blackmail as well. The blackmailers leave him with a crippled leg after he refuses to comply with their demands. Although this docs not prevent him from marrying Yu Jing, Shi Ba never manages to maintain his human dignity in and outside the family. One evening, after some self-meditation, he jumps over the railing of a balcony and throws himself into the darkness.Read More »
Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.Read More »
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A key Fifth Generation work released during the second phase of Deng Xiaoping’s social and economic reforms, this robust social satire delightfully depicts the clash between the rising class of rapid industrial modernizers and old Party cadres with a serious Cultural Revolution hangover. The film chronicles the Kafkaesque predicament of a bumbling factory translator who is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. (The “black cannon” of the title refers to the missing chess piece the hapless hero is trying to locate.) Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse and hilarious series of Party meetings, set in a boardroom straight out of German Expressionism.Read More »