24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) Critic Reviews
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The actors in 24 City bring their own existential realities to their short, touching performances. In the end, the deep emotions they stir up -- the actress Lv Liping delivers a harrowing story about a lost child -- constitute another kind of monument to the workers of Factory 420.Read the full review
The new film, shot in vivid hi-def video, is part documentary and part fiction based on interviews; it uses on-camera interviews with workers, some played by themselves and some played by actors, to evoke a past of unimaginable toil, and suffering, in the service of the Communist state.Read the full review
The only thing might have added variety and richness to the film would be the inclusion of more dialogues or interactions with more than one person.Read the full review
Result is far more accessible than Jia's previous two pictures, with moments of genuine emotion by the real-life interviewees.Read the full review
Mostly, 24 City falls into the same Jia trap of inadvertently drawing the viewers' gaze past his human subjects and to the poetic images of a country in painful metamorphosis.Read the full review
