Der letzte Zug (2009)
18KDer letzte Zug: Directed by Lixin Fan. With Changhua Zhang, Suqin Chen, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang. A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
“A modern train glides smoothly over a ravine bridge against a framed backdrop of snow-covered peaks and deep valleys.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is a breathtakingly scenic surprise that sharply contrasts with the passengers crammed into the train, exhausted, heading home for a day or two after a weeku0026#39;s wait at the city train station.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLixin Fanu0026#39;s film of three consecutive New Yearu0026#39;s migrations provides startling insight into modern China and the devastation that recent industrialization has wrecked upon a country once steeped in family-centered culture.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA young girl offers prayers for her grandfather. He has raised her and she doesnu0026#39;t really know much at all about her parents.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThey have spent her lifetime in Guangzhouu0026#39;s factories making jeans for the world and sending money back home in hopes their children (they also have a younger son) will receive a strong education and rise above the menial factory work.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is an aching portrait of modern China that should be seen.”
