Platform

SYNOPSIS

Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China (Jia's birthplace), from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform. Platform has garnered wide acclaim from critics in the years since its release, and is often named one of the greatest films of the 2000s. The film has been called the masterpiece of the entire "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, although the movie has