HUANG Wenhai
Director
The first two chapters of the film are almost the same length, repetitive and monotonous industrial scenes, accompanied by harsh, strange, agitated and inexplicable sounds of fear, which make us feel that the time is surprisingly long (it’s actually only twelve minutes, twelve minutes that the viewer can’t bear to watch, and yet the workers live in such conditions every day). Then we see a solid, lean body dancing expertly in the dim light of the cramped dormitory. It was an irrepressible explosion of vitality, like the grass growing under a giant rock, constantly striving to reach out. The “beauty” of a nation with a history of several thousand years of civilisation, undergoing tremendous change, transformation and reshaping of it‘s destiny.