Synopsis
A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.
A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.
china seems prosperous and strong, GDP top 2 in the world, but what is this prosperity built on?
in chapter 6 of this doc, titled Angry Young Man, Zhao Chantong utters the same exact sentiment i had going into this film as someone opposing everything this 19 year old blind ultra nationalist stood for.
or proclaimed to stand for, as it literally takes under 10 minutes for him to out these beliefs as little more than the lowest hanging fruit towards a teenagers quest for acceptance. or way out of mediocrity, as he puts it. the same benine reason shared by the likes of white nationalism or radical islam.
it starts when he stumbles around the question of the tiananmen…
《少年*小趙》見證一個原本愛國的少年(被國家洗腦成功),因為念了大學去外地學習之後,透過親身經歷和教育,少年開始思考他原本一直深信不疑的信念,對於中國體制有了不同的想法,他體悟到在偏鄉的資源是如此不均,而政府到底為人民做了什麼?直到自己老家因為都更被強制拆除,一家人失去了原本安然的根基,終於看清了一些真相,也慢慢了解國家的樣貌。在電影的開始,他歌頌偉大的毛主席和祖國,對著鏡頭侃侃而談,夢想是從軍貢獻國家,而電影最後停格的畫面,卻是十足的諷刺和炎涼,紀錄了愛國少年殘酷的殘酷成長心路歷程。
CNEX紀錄片影展有許多好作品,張贊波導演的《大路朝天》、周浩導演的《大同》、山田和也導演的《蒙古草原,天氣晴》,這些紀錄片的拍攝對象都是中國,感謝這些出色的影像工作者,謝謝他們用攝影機讓世界看見中國的縮影。