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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

Original title: Yi zhi you dao hai shui bian lan
  • 20202020
  • 1h 52m
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6.4/10
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Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.

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  • Director
    • Zhangke Jia
  • Writers
    • Zhangke Jia
    • Jiahuan Wan
  • Stars
    • Huifang Duan
    • Liang Hong
    • Pingwa Jia
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  • Director
    • Zhangke Jia
  • Writers
    • Zhangke Jia
    • Jiahuan Wan
  • Stars
    • Huifang Duan
    • Liang Hong
    • Pingwa Jia
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    • 3User reviews
    • 23Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 4 nominations

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    Hua Yu
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      • Zhangke Jia
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      • Jiahuan Wan
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    Prominent Chinese writers and scholars gather in a village in Shanxi, a province of China and the hometown of Jia Zhang-Ke. This starts an 18-chapter symphony about Chinese society since 1949. Narrated by three important novelists born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s respectively, telling their own stories with literature and reality, the film weaves a 70-year spiritual history of the Chinese people.
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    1/10
    To justify the past wrong doings after 1949 and at the same time
    To glorify the present facade of China? No, it is so painful to watch these so-called Revolutionary Chinese Literary Members of the CCP China. I felt so sad when I watched those old folks who lined up to be fed one by one. Those faces were not normally aged ones but forcefully transformed by year after year tortures, suffered indescribable hardship results since 1949 to become what they looked like. Normal people aging naturally would not have such miserable faces.

    After so many years' brainwash procedure, most of the Chinese people suffered a similar Stockholm Syndrome, they are like hostages fell for the criminals after a certain period of time. I was so upset to watch this movie, watching these people praised the CCP and felt indebted to that regime. They just didn't and couldn't realize the process of their life, their lifetime, the span of their lives should not be like what they went through.

    I didn't see anything in this miserable worths my praises at all, only deeply saddened by the pathetic ignorance and what they had to recognize and accept their doomed living experience.

    All I could remember after watching this movie is when an old Chinese saying: "The innocent kidnapped fool helping counting the money paid to their kidnapper." You guys really deserved what you got after all.
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    • Release date
      • May 28, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • China
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • So Close to My Land
    • Production companies
      • Xstream Pictures
      • Huaxia Film Distribution
      • Alibaba Pictures
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,981
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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