
Once Upon a Time Proletarian
A quiet, observational documentary that drifts through ordinary working lives, asking what people dream of while the world around them stays stark and uncertain.
- Directed by
- Xiaolu Guo
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Film shows the present state of China through twelve platforms, an old farmer, a middle aged waitress, a car washer, a weapons dealer, fish store owners, a barber, a factory owner, a park ranger, a shopping mall employee, etc. These various faces of the so-called proletarian class ask, what is a dream? Answers to this question exist in the interview with each character, but is conveyed much more clearly through the black and white image of the children putting up their future as security as shots are heard continually behind them.
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- Directed by
- Xiaolu Guo
- Genres
- Documentary










