In this short film is only 30 minutes there is no standard plot, no actors, no lighting, no score. Only one camera and its document.
A bus terminal: wait a few others to come. A man is nervous, he receives his wife and son returning from the trip. Then a bus stop in the coal mining town has become gray. Constantly heavy laden trucks drive past. In the background the city, apartment buildings. The bus arrives, people get out, one, a woman missed the bus. Then a train station waiting room, an old officer sits grinning in a wheelchair, the ticket woman tears off cards. Cut to a dance hall, older couples turn in circles.
IN PUBLIC is thus documentary cinema, to capture another piece of the puzzle in Jia Zhang-kes project that contemporary China by a form of documentary realism and present. A film that may come in its sober participation of everyday life in the face. One approach, in which "the story" formed in the mind of the viewer. The film returns the question, "what film is," so the viewers and sour-faced so those who want to get a story in the traditional sense necessary. Questions rather than answers. Sure, why should we ever see a bus station somewhere in the long hinterlandigsten China? There are just other issues raised here. And then I have to say, I could even look at something for hours.
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