24 City

24 City

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Release Date

9/27/2008

Runtime

108 mins

Overview

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.

Status

Released

Original Language

Chinese

Budget

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Revenue

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A lyrical meditation on loss and displacement as urban development erases a factory and the lives intertwined with it. Jia Zhangke assembles fragmented testimonies and staged recreations into a portrait of China's rapid transformation and what gets left behind.

Mood

MelancholicContemplativeWistful

Themes

MemoryClassIdentityMigration

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-likeFormalist

Structure

Anthology

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