Last Train Home
Cast: Chen Sugin Chen, Zhan Changhua, Zhang Qin
Directed: Fan Lixin
Genre: Drama (Documentary)
Runtime: 85 min
Also Known As: Gui Tu Jie Che
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English (Hardcoded Only)
Source...............: DVD Rip
FType................: MOVIE
File Format..........: AVI
Codec................: XViD
Resolution...........: 624x352
AR...................: 16:9
Video Bitrate........: 942kb/s
Audio................: MPEG Audio
Audio Bitrate........: 128 kbps (2ch) MPEG Audio
Source...............: DVD Rip
Ripper...............: XTM
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 200 other million peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power. Amid this chaos, director Lixin Fan focuses on one couple, Changhua and Sugin Zhang, who embark upon a two-day journey to see their children.
The Zhangs left their rural village for factory jobs when their children were just infants. Now a teenager, daughter Qin resents their continual absence. Yearning for her own freedom, she quits school to work in a factory herself. Her parents, who see education as their children’s one hope, are devastated.
Through its intimate and heartbreaking observation of the Zhangs, Last Train Home places a human face on China’s ascendance as an economic power. To overwhelming effect, Fan illustrates the cost incurred by fractured families and reveals a country tragically caught between its industrial future and rural past.
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