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Without this documentary knowledge of today's China won't be complete. Any kind of fiction is powerless in front of the complex and dramatic real life stories it preserves.
I watched the 2010 five hours-long director's cut of Petition with a full house of some two hundred audiences. We were all captivated deeply by the drama, the humour, and above all, the tragedy in this groundbreaking documentary. In China people who seek intervention from higher authority to correct the injustice they suffered have been existing for more than half of a century, but it waits until today when there is DV camera and more importantly a brave film maker we are able to learn their life stories directly, with our safety hold in hand. This is a shocking experience, few people expect the surge of emotion they felt during watching. Some parts of the film are so heart-wrenching that I think the majority of the audiences burst into tears during those moments. I myself cried more than I had in several years. But there is no sentimentality here, the situations are too harsh to react irrationally. You are struck to ask questions, why is the Chinese justice system failed, what can we do for these suffering people, can we sit well and enjoy one more single day of wealth when these members of our own race are deprived of basic decency of human being?
I watched the 2010 five hours-long director's cut of Petition with a full house of some two hundred audiences. We were all captivated deeply by the drama, the humour, and above all, the tragedy in this groundbreaking documentary. In China people who seek intervention from higher authority to correct the injustice they suffered have been existing for more than half of a century, but it waits until today when there is DV camera and more importantly a brave film maker we are able to learn their life stories directly, with our safety hold in hand. This is a shocking experience, few people expect the surge of emotion they felt during watching. Some parts of the film are so heart-wrenching that I think the majority of the audiences burst into tears during those moments. I myself cried more than I had in several years. But there is no sentimentality here, the situations are too harsh to react irrationally. You are struck to ask questions, why is the Chinese justice system failed, what can we do for these suffering people, can we sit well and enjoy one more single day of wealth when these members of our own race are deprived of basic decency of human being?
Different stories of three sisters juxtaposing together, consist a unique image of love. How does director Tran achieve his philosophical depth and aesthetic revelation is almost a myth. Its interpretation of relationship, its visual beauty, its sound, are totally unique -- very Asian, very Vietnames, and all has its content, nothing arty, nothing nihilistic. You can the live in the characters' lives, smell their food, feel the heat of their room, sense the the mystery of their inner world yet after all, appreciate the beauty of the humanity revealed. This the film no one but Tran can make.
Because of Tran's three Vietnamese subject films, I drew a beautiful picture of Vietnam in my heart. It became a dream place. Many people might do the same. The reality will be different, but now we know a beautiful dream exists. This is the power of movie and what we are looking for in cinema.
Because of Tran's three Vietnamese subject films, I drew a beautiful picture of Vietnam in my heart. It became a dream place. Many people might do the same. The reality will be different, but now we know a beautiful dream exists. This is the power of movie and what we are looking for in cinema.