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Last Train Home follows a Chinese Family as they leave their daughter and family to look for work in more industrialized areas. They leave the country side and begin working in a cheap clothing factory. The film spans over two years observing the familys struggles for money as they attempt to keep their relationships intact.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Chinese ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Last Train Home follows a Chinese Family as they leave their daughter and family to look for work in more industrialized areas. They leave the country side and begin working in a cheap clothing factory. The film spans over two years observing the familys struggles for money as they attempt to keep their relationships intact. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Sundance Film Festival, ...Last Train Home ( Śltimo tren a casa ) ( To teleftaio treno tou gyrismou )
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an amazing documentary featuring the lives of a chinese family over a 3 year period (2006-2008)mainly concentrating on the mass migration that takes place at the chinese new year as 130 million migrant workers attempt to return home for the celebrations.
I've experienced plenty of travel chaos in the UK over the years but nothing like on the scale shown in this film.The scenes showing thousands of people waiting days for tickets and trains will stay with me for a long time and will make the regular 2 hour delays on the M25 seem like a picnic in the park.
The film also highlights the cultural changes that have taken place in China and how they have effected the 3 generations of the featured family.
Marvellous cinematography combined with a very interesting subject make this an essential DVD!
I've experienced plenty of travel chaos in the UK over the years but nothing like on the scale shown in this film.The scenes showing thousands of people waiting days for tickets and trains will stay with me for a long time and will make the regular 2 hour delays on the M25 seem like a picnic in the park.
The film also highlights the cultural changes that have taken place in China and how they have effected the 3 generations of the featured family.
Marvellous cinematography combined with a very interesting subject make this an essential DVD!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A film that does much to illustrate the ever changing demographics of the world we live in today, and how the West has helped fuel the economic leviathan that China has become today. This documentary film follows the Zhang family during the course of several years as they embark on the annual migration of 130 million workers returning to their homes across China for their new year celebrations. This mass movement of people makes the wildebeest migration on the Serengetti look like a meeting for elderly recluses. The mother and father forsake their rural home in Sichuan province, isn't that where Panda bears come from?, to work in the sweat shops further east. Unlike Panda bears who live happily on bamboo shoots, mum and dad try to earn more money through sheer hard work to give their children an education. In doing so they fracture their family unit, with the result that they become alienated from their own daughter, who considers the grandmother to be her true mother. It is a story that clearly happens all over China, and is a moral dilemma that pulls at the heart strings.
It is hard not to be a little cynical and assume that much of the documentary is carefully stage managed, and I guess some of it had to be out of sheer necessity, but there is much that has a real ring of authenticity to it. The family argument is perhaps the biggest case in point, that ends up in a real ding dong domestic with everything but the kitchen sink being thrown. Whew, clearly I am not the only father in this world who has had problems with rebellious teenage daughters. The film contains a memorable scene with one Chinese worker expressing his amazement at the waist sizes of trousers being supplied for the American market. It is clear to see that there is more than just the Pacific Ocean between these two super powers! Another sobering sight was seeing the many young girls who work in the factories starting at school age, seemingly having their innocence and child like optimism stolen away from them. I found the documentary fascinating and will definitely not be using the Chinese railway network during their new year. This documentary will certainly give you pause for thought when put on your next Chinese made garment, and there is an awful lot of them.
It is hard not to be a little cynical and assume that much of the documentary is carefully stage managed, and I guess some of it had to be out of sheer necessity, but there is much that has a real ring of authenticity to it. The family argument is perhaps the biggest case in point, that ends up in a real ding dong domestic with everything but the kitchen sink being thrown. Whew, clearly I am not the only father in this world who has had problems with rebellious teenage daughters. The film contains a memorable scene with one Chinese worker expressing his amazement at the waist sizes of trousers being supplied for the American market. It is clear to see that there is more than just the Pacific Ocean between these two super powers! Another sobering sight was seeing the many young girls who work in the factories starting at school age, seemingly having their innocence and child like optimism stolen away from them. I found the documentary fascinating and will definitely not be using the Chinese railway network during their new year. This documentary will certainly give you pause for thought when put on your next Chinese made garment, and there is an awful lot of them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
By far the best documentary I have ever seen. A beautiful and tragic film and while there isn't much dialogue the shots and the family story are enough to have you gripped from start to finish. Well done Lixin Fan.
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