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Problems with Still Life , 14 September 2008
  • Still Life
  • Still Life on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Tao Zhao,  Sanming Han,  Zhubin Li
    Director: Jia Zhangke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Never before after seeing a movie have I found it so difficult to decide how to rate it.Seen simply as a documentary, showing how 'progess' can destroy people's homes and their dignity and integrity, even treating them as cheap labour, out of their need for employment, to demolish their own village before the new dam drowns it, set against a background of superb photagraphy it deserves 5 stars, in spite of it being very slow moving.
    On the other hand the introduction of two couples, facing each other on meeting again after the debacle, brings fiction into the film in a dismally frustrating way. Without a hint of their personalities via closeups and expression reduces them to small static figues seen from a distance, adding nothing further to the message of the documntary, and prolonging pointlessly what is anyway a long film. This, I felt, deserved only one star.
    When I saw the distribution of rating from members I was struck by the almost equal number of one and five star ratings, both taller than any in between, and this confirmed my reactions. Nothing for it but to allot 3 stars.   6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
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