[香港城市大學]站2013.03.18

 

電影:《換城》

日期: 2013.03.18（一）

時間: 18:30-20:30

地點: 香港城市大學學術樓(一)四樓四號演講廳

嘉賓: 葉健民 教授（香港城市大學公共及社會行政學系助理系主任）

 

Film: Where Should I Go?

Date: 2013.03.18 (Mon)

Time: 18:30-20:30

Venue: LT4 - Lecture Theatre 4, Floor 4, Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong

Guest: Prof Yep, Ray Kin-man （Assistant Head, Dept. of Public and Social Administration）

 

中國 China / 2010 / 60min / 李軍虎 LI Jun-hu

★CNEX 監製影片

◎2011入圍第17屆上海電視節“白玉蘭優秀電視節目展播”單元

ShangHai TV Festival Screening 2011

◎2011入圍「華語紀錄片獎2011」長片組競賽

Selected in Chinese Documentary Festival 2011

 

城市與農村究竟有多遠？

 

對於張知莉與楊繡清這樣的家庭來說，它不僅僅是一張車票、一段路途。他們作為城市移民，卻無法蛻去腳上來自農村的泥土，也無法穿上城市光鮮的外衣。在城市的邊緣、在往返於城鄉的途中，他們時刻憧憬著都市生活，嚮往著主流社會的認可與接納，而現實的處境卻無比尷尬。

 

在「換城」的漫長旅途中，他們還有多少路要走？

 

Two ordinary families from the countryside, for the fate of the next generation, have left their hometowns for the city, where they begin to seek their dream of a wandering life/begin their wandering life in pursuit of their dreams. However, things do not develop as expected. Exorbitant school fees kept Zhang Zhi Li's child locked outside of the city's school gates, leaving her with no option other than to teach her son how to read while she works at the flea market every day. Her two daughters, left at their countryside homestead out from under the watch of their parents, find it difficult to take care of themselves. The oldest daughter has already considered stopping her studies, often skipping school and cutting classes. In order to help them forget about their own hardships after her husband passed away in a car accident, and more so to become dignified citizens of the city, Yang Xiu Qing decides to lets her slightly older daughter leave school to work in a bar, like herself, to help earn money to support her son's studies. Yang Xiu Qing's biggest concern is not her son's present tuition, but that his school fees will become increasingly expensive. Yang Xiu Qing will have to hand over more than a few thousand yuan in fees to send him to a good high school, and then there is always college to worry about. The tremendous gap between reality and dreams has left the two families tightly embraced by poverty. Exactly which road should they follow? Should they return to the countryside to start over, or should they take one last stand against fate and stay in the city? Neither choice seems to be very easy…