[The Good Lab]站2013.05.11

 

 

電影:《換城》

日期: 2013.05.11 (Sat)

時間: 14:30-16:00

地點: 好單位小劇場，西九龍通州街500號星匯居L1（港鐵長沙灣站步行6分鐘，南昌站步行10分鐘）

嘉賓: 楊媚（「同根社」總幹事）

 

Film: Where Should I Go?

Date: 2013.05.11 (Sat)

Time: 14:30-16:00

Venue: Mini Theatre, The Good Lab, L1, The Sparkle, 5500 Tung Chau Street, West Kowloon

Guest: Ms. Yeung Mei (Executive Director, New Women Arrivals League)

 

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

 

兩個普通的農村家庭，為了下一代的命運背井離鄉來到城市，開始了尋找夢想的漂泊生活。然而接下來的發展，並未朝著他們所預料的方向進行：高昂的學費把張知麗的兒子擋在城市學校門外，她每天只能在舊貨市場自己教孩子識字。兩個留在農村的女兒由於長期缺少父母管制，生活也難以自理，大女兒已經產生了輟學的念頭，經常曠課逃學；而另外，丈夫車禍去世後的楊繡青為了不讓孩子再象自己那樣受苦，更為了能堂堂正正的做個城市人，她選擇了讓大一點的女兒退學去酒吧打工，和自己一起賺錢供兒子讀書。楊繡青現在最擔心的不是兒子的學費，而是以後的學費會越來越貴，到了升高中時，還要再交幾千元的擇校費，還有以後的大學。現實和夢想之間的巨大差距，讓兩個家庭在貧困中緊緊相擁。前方的路，究竟何去何從。是該重新回到農村，還是與命運做最後一次抗爭留在城市？每一個選擇似乎都是那麽難……

 

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…...