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Quitting.
LIBRA DVD 016 367
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Heroin abuse--Drama.
- Heroin abuse.
- Actors--China--Drama.
- Actors.
- Beijing (China)--Social conditions--20th century--Drama.
- Beijing (China).
- China.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen presentation.
- Other Title:
- Zuo tian.
- Place of Publication:
- [Beijing] : Imar Film Co., Ltd. ; Culver City, CA : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2003]
- Language Note:
- In Mandarin with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- This is the story of Jia Hongsheng, (playing himself) a star of Chinese movies and television circa 1990, who, while appearing onstage in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1992 began smoking pot, quickly progressing to heroin, with a resultant spiral down into professional and personal dysfunction. Nearly all of the other characters in the film, his parents (also professional actors), fellow inmates at a psychiatric hospital, and professional colleagues, play themselves. The film is a fragmented re-enactment of Jia's life from roughly 1992-95; what emerges is a portrait of individual depression and a study in generational division and social malaise. It suggests that Beijing is not so different from New York or Los Angeles-a big, impersonal city that draws ambitious young people from the provinces and subjects them to temptation, loneliness, and danger.
- Contents:
- Start
- Jia's parents
- Dinner time
- "Are you still on drugs?"
- Second-hand bike
- 1992: the first time
- 1995: tight jeans and beer
- "Give me 10 RMG."
- 1993: shaking all over
- Shun Xing
- Friendship's end
- Smoking a lot of heroin
- Band practice with Lijie
- Loving sister
- 1996: "I quit acting."
- "Do I look like Lennon?"
- Dragon calls
- "We can't help him."
- Life is but a dream
- Change in environment
- "Adapt to your surroundings."
- "I dreamed of the dragon again."
- Evaluation
- Catching up with an old friend
- 1997: homecoming
- "I'm thirty today."
- Participant:
- Jia Hongsheng, Jia Fengsen, Chai Xiurong.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Wang Yu, Cheng Shouqi ; editor, Yang Hongyu ; music, Zhang Yadong ; English subtitles, Zhu Rui.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- Originally produced as a Chinese motion picture in 2001.
- Winner, Zhang Yang, FIPRESCI Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival, 2001; Hongshen Jia, Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festival, 2002.
- ISBN:
- 0767883012
- 9780767883016
- OCLC:
- 51926669
- Publisher Number:
- 043396079076
- 07907 Sony Pictures Classics
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