Wheat Harvest
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2008
Release Year: 2008
Story:
In June the wheat tips are beginning to turn yellow. She comes back from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei, to find her father lying in bed with an IV and her mother out at the market. It appears that this is the way life always is; this is normal; nothing is out of the ordinary. Going back a few months, we see a filthy and chaotic side street in Beijing’s eastern suburbs called GaoXiDian. In a nameless, unlit ‘beauty parlor’, this country girl of barely 20 years old shows us a corner of her life as a prostitute. She says she can’t get involved with individual clients, but then we meet a customer named Xu… She looks down on the boss of the salon, because she is “too greedy”… She can’t forget the man who brought her to Beijing, her former boss Brother Chen, who unfortunately got into some trouble last year… She gives all of her money to her family to pay for her father’s medical costs, keeping only 100RMB to get back to Beijing… Time flies by, and soon her family’s wheat is ready to harvest, but it has been raining for days on end, making it impossible to begin… The film revolves around the time of the harvest, documenting one person’s dual lives and struggles, how one person copes on her own in the face of everything. Here we see the complex depths of human nature.
In June the wheat tips are beginning to turn yellow. She comes back from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei, to find her father lying in bed with an IV and her mother out at the market. It appears that this is the way life always is; this is normal; nothing is out of the ordinary. Going back a few months, we see a filthy and chaotic side street in Beijing’s eastern suburbs called GaoXiDian. In a nameless, unlit ‘beauty parlor’, this country girl of barely 20 years old shows us a corner of her life as a prostitute. She says she can’t get involved with individual clients, but then we meet a customer named Xu… She looks down on the boss of the salon, because she is “too greedy”… She can’t forget the man who brought her to Beijing, her former boss Brother Chen, who unfortunately got into some trouble last year… She gives all of her money to her family to pay for her father’s medical costs, keeping only 100RMB to get back to Beijing… Time flies by, and soon her family’s wheat is ready to harvest, but it has been raining for days on end, making it impossible to begin… The film revolves around the time of the harvest, documenting one person’s dual lives and struggles, how one person copes on her own in the face of everything. Here we see the complex depths of human nature.
Casts & Crews:
Xu Tong
Directors
Runtime:
99
minutes
Language:
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Festivals & Awards:
2008 Beijing Third Independent Film Forum, China
2008 Beijing Third Independent Film Forum, China
Tags:
#Mainland
#Hebei
#Sex Worker
#Society
#Humanity
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Casts & Crews
Xu Tong
Director
