2023·Documentary·3h 32m
7.1
★
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Directed by Wang Bing
china
labor
garment factory
migrant worker
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garment industry
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Wang Bing
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Dominique Auvray
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Isabelle Glachant
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Olivier Père
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16th World Film Festival of Bangkok #7
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
16th World Film Festival of Bangkok #7
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
Sepia GorePRO
16th World Film Festival of Bangkok #7
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
16th World Film Festival of Bangkok #7
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
Even more daunting then the already unflinching Til’ Madness Do Us Part which is until now the only Wang Bing film I’ve seen and admittedly the staying power but also the morbid thing with that 4 hour documentary is that it deals with mental illness and how for 4 hours you with Bing are confined to one single floor of a building circling back and forth back and forth until all the faces blurred, it’s at once visceral, shocking but also with that amount of time managing to breath and fully empathized with the people society deems most meaningless, in fact making us realize their pain is anything but. Here with Youth (Spring) there is less of, for lack of a better word, a sensationalist draw unlike Do Us Part, its more frank in that we aren’t dealing with the rejected but the exploited, more than ever Bing is bringing the unrelenting injustice inherent to our system just that bit closer to home. Replace trauma with dreams.
I both condemned but also sympathize with the gradual growing of audience members in my screening who began to leave, one by one and never come back, sympathized as it’s easy not to only see yourself up there with how this system has treat us but potentially our children. It is the extent that one wonders if really the capitalist hellhole we’re in is created purely to torture us? There’s also the unruly dynamic between the men and women and the workplace harassment disguised as banter that really speaks to me but I also feel disappointed in them leaving precisely because not only is that what these kids have to face (with faces that bares ages way older then they actually are) but Bing’s film is also at times a delight, in how he enjoys every chances the young adults gets the chance to rebel or even protest against the unfair wages set against them, every little act of disorder or revealing, high energy interactions the kids have with one another at once humanize and brings a face, a voice, a liveliness to these souls that we only hear lumped in with colder, industrial details when reading about these kinds of horrid labors but it also reminds us of how cruel it is that the beginnings of the adulthoods of these kids are wasted and used up by these sketchy companies but also, Youth Spring and I have a feeling this entire trilogy is marking up to be a important milestone of the current generation and what we have to deal with, prices are rising never dipping and kids have to navigate the prejudices set up before they’re birth and that they have internalized themselves, yet even the more unlikable people here, despite it all, they are so alive, doesn’t make survival any easier but Bing also captures something also inherent; it’s easier to survive then to live.
Jackson Lang
🚨🚨I MET WANG BING FUCKERS🚨🚨
I got to take a pic with him and ask him a question which I will link below but for now here’s a rare review with no rating.
Imagine this is getting a kind of honorary shadow five star. This film has potential to be as good as Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks And may be one of the best films of all time.
However.
It’s just not done. Tie Xi Qu: West of the tracks was split into three feature length sections Rust, Remnant and rails this film is only part one of a three-part film series. If you started watching Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks and only watched rust It would still be a really good film but you’d only have watched a third of it and the other two parts are essential to the complete experience. Even in something like Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks the parts individually can still be extremely powerful. But It is together in their full context that the film truly becomes something transcendental.
So I’m not gonna rate this not yet. This, however, I will say is absolutely on par with the first part of Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks so far and again once completed this may genuinely be as good which considering the fact that I think Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks is the best documentary of all time is not a statement I take lately.
During the Q&A Wang said that the editing process for part two has almost finished and will come out fairly soon and that part three will follow suit. From what he said about the next two parts I am very very very excited.
Wang Bing might be the best currently living Director.
www.instagram.com/p/C2IgJv8vW8M/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==
I got to take a pic with him and ask him a question which I will link below but for now here’s a rare review with no rating.
Imagine this is getting a kind of honorary shadow five star. This film has potential to be as good as Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks And may be one of the best films of all time.
However.
It’s just not done. Tie Xi Qu: West of the tracks was split into three feature length sections Rust, Remnant and rails this film is only part one of a three-part film series. If you started watching Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks and only watched rust It would still be a really good film but you’d only have watched a third of it and the other two parts are essential to the complete experience. Even in something like Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks the parts individually can still be extremely powerful. But It is together in their full context that the film truly becomes something transcendental.
So I’m not gonna rate this not yet. This, however, I will say is absolutely on par with the first part of Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks so far and again once completed this may genuinely be as good which considering the fact that I think Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks is the best documentary of all time is not a statement I take lately.
During the Q&A Wang said that the editing process for part two has almost finished and will come out fairly soon and that part three will follow suit. From what he said about the next two parts I am very very very excited.
Wang Bing might be the best currently living Director.
www.instagram.com/p/C2IgJv8vW8M/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==
🚨🚨I MET WANG BING FUCKERS🚨🚨
I got to take a pic with him and ask him a question which I will link below but for now here’s a rare review with no rating.
Imagine this is getting a kind of honorary shadow five star. This film has potential to be as good as Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks And may be one of the best films of all time.
However.
It’s just not done. Tie Xi Qu: West of the tracks was split into three feature length sections Rust, Remnant and rails this film is only part one of a three-part film series. If you started watching Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks and only watched rust It would still be a really good film but you’d only have watched a third of it and the other two parts are essential to the complete experience. Even in something like Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks the parts individually can still be extremely powerful. But It is together in their full context that the film truly becomes something transcendental.
So I’m not gonna rate this not yet. This, however, I will say is absolutely on par with the first part of Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks so far and again once completed this may genuinely be as good which considering the fact that I think Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks is the best documentary of all time is not a statement I take lately.
During the Q&A Wang said that the editing process for part two has almost finished and will come out fairly soon and that part three will follow suit. From what he said about the next two parts I am very very very excited.
Wang Bing might be the best currently living Director.
www.instagram.com/p/C2IgJv8vW8M/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==
I got to take a pic with him and ask him a question which I will link below but for now here’s a rare review with no rating.
Imagine this is getting a kind of honorary shadow five star. This film has potential to be as good as Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks And may be one of the best films of all time.
However.
It’s just not done. Tie Xi Qu: West of the tracks was split into three feature length sections Rust, Remnant and rails this film is only part one of a three-part film series. If you started watching Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks and only watched rust It would still be a really good film but you’d only have watched a third of it and the other two parts are essential to the complete experience. Even in something like Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks the parts individually can still be extremely powerful. But It is together in their full context that the film truly becomes something transcendental.
So I’m not gonna rate this not yet. This, however, I will say is absolutely on par with the first part of Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks so far and again once completed this may genuinely be as good which considering the fact that I think Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks is the best documentary of all time is not a statement I take lately.
During the Q&A Wang said that the editing process for part two has almost finished and will come out fairly soon and that part three will follow suit. From what he said about the next two parts I am very very very excited.
Wang Bing might be the best currently living Director.
www.instagram.com/p/C2IgJv8vW8M/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==