換城 Where Should I Go? [世界首映] [CNEX監製影片]
香港 HK / 2010 / 65 min / 導演 Director：李軍虎 LI Jun-hu
信義威秀11/2,19:30★ 誠品信義11/3,14:30★
城市與農村究竟有多遠？
對於張知莉與楊繡清這樣的家庭來說，它不僅僅是一張車票、一段路途。他們作為城市移民，卻無法蛻去腳上來自農村的泥土，也無法穿上城市光鮮的外衣。在城市的邊緣、在往返於城鄉的途中，他們時刻憧憬著都市生活，嚮往著主流社會的認可與接納，而現實的處境卻無比尷尬。
在「換城」的漫長旅途中，他們還有多少路要走？
Realizing the importance of knowledge in determining her children’s fate, ZHANG Zhi-li decides to leave her two adolescent daughters at her home in the countryside, and with her husband, takes her son to the city in pursuit of an education.
YANG Xiu-qing has brought her only son and daughter from the countryside to the city. In order to make it possible for them to stay there, she has used her late husband’s pension to buy city resident permits, known as “hukous,” for her two children.
Two ordinary families from the countryside, for the fate of the next generation, have left their hometowns for the city, where they begin to seek their dream of a wandering life/begin their wandering life in pursuit of their dreams. However, things do not develop as expected.
Exorbitant school fees kept ZHANG Zhi-li’s child locked outside of the city’s school gates, leaving her with no option other than to teach her son how to read while she works at the flea market every day. Her two daughters, left at their countryside homestead out from under the watch of their parents, have found it difficult to take care of themselves. The oldest daughter has already considered stopping her studies, often skipping school and cutting classes.
In order to help them forget about their own hardships after her husband passed away in a car accident, and more so to become dignified citizens of the city, YANG Xiu-qing decides to lets her slightly older daughter leave school to work in a bar, like herself, to help earn money to support her son’s studies. YANG Xiu-qing’s biggest concern is not her son’s present tuition, but that his school fees will become increasingly expensive. YANG Xiu-qing will have to hand over more than a few thousand RMB in fees to send him to a good high school, and then there is always college to worry about.
The tremendous gap between reality and dreams has left the two families tightly embraced by poverty. Exactly which road should they follow? Should they return to the countryside to start over, or should they take one last stand against fate and stay in the city? Neither choice seems to be very easy…
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