Huang Weikai
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"Never mind" Independent Film Screening VOL.12: Floating
Director: Huang Weikai
Release date: 2005
In Cantonese with Chinese and Chinese subtitles
Film Synopsis:
The current china’s economic disparity between rural areas and urban areas is so great that a large amount of rural population is flowing into urban areas; however, the Chinese government’s “Regulation on the Detention and Repatriation of Vagrants and Beggars in Cities” introduced since 1980s has made these migrant people the target of punishment and discrimination.
Yang is vagrant singer from Henan rural area; he earns his life by singing in the subways of urban business centers. Everyday he brought with him his temporary residency card and identification card to avoid being caught and detained by local police. In order to keep his work, he has to bribe the security guards whom take charge of the subways, deals circuitously with Urban Management guys, and squeezes other street artist out. From time to time, many of his friends who live just like him are detained by local police and repatriated back home, but soon after that they come back to the city and continue their drifting life. Yang, in this year of his thirty years old, has realized the break of his star dream. He has thought about to end his floating life, go back hometown and marry his first lover, but the imbroglio in his hear about old and new lovers has made his life even more chaotic. Finally, he was caught by local police when he is singing, detained, and finally send back home.
黄伟凯
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导演：
片长： 93分钟
创作年份： 2005年
国语对白，中文字幕
影片梗概：
杨是一位来至河南农村的流浪歌手，在城市商业中心的过街隧道里以卖唱为生。他每天都携带暂住证和身份证，以防被员警收容。为了保住饭碗，他需要收买管理隧道的保安，同时还要跟城管周旋，并且排挤其他街头艺人。杨身边的朋友经常被收容遣送回家，然后他们又从家乡回来城市继续飘荡不定的生活。在杨三十岁这年，当初想当歌星的梦想已成为泡影，他想结束自己的流浪，回家和初恋情人结婚，但新旧情人间的情感纠葛，使他的生活变得更加混乱。最后，他在唱歌时被收容遣送回家。