Changing China is the perennial protagonist of Jia Zhang-Ke's cinema. And it is even more so in Platform, where its transformation is made even more evident by the surprise and wonder that the citizens of such a remote and backward village feel at news that is taken for granted by the rest of the world, such as the passage of a train or the arrival of electricity in the village.Read all
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China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.