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Chinese Independent Documentary :
CIDFA042:
The sound of silence
Director: Wang Yang
Length: 101 minutes
Production Year: 2008
About the film:
Only the dried-up sound of wind on the wilderness, waiting for the protagonist visit again after 7 years.Here is the bright natural paradise in memory of childhood, here is place of the first appointment, and the place of carving the name on the stone.Nowadays, the things are still there but men are no more the same ones, time is quiet like sea. Only sound of wind is here,facing the sadness which was stired with past and future.the young people was tired and making the doze after playing.At the same time,some other young men have tided over the last impatient period of their youth.
Filmmaker’s Statement :
This film is recording the life of several young people,I'm not only find the realistic heavy pressure among them,but also find the anger, sorrow,courage and memory which were caused by facing personal life and political life.Time is silent,the children who are hurrying on their journey and lefting without an argument,opening their mouths and try to do something to retrieve the rapidly disappearing youth and dream.