CHINA Cinema: "Report from 24 City"
纪录片”《二十四城记》
Screenplay written by Jia Zhang Ke
贾樟柯表示：“电影里的时间是现在，但是大家谈的都是往事，谈的是50年里面各个历史时间段的生存感受。”
The scriptwriter Jia Zhang Ke indicates: "Even though, the plot of that film is based in our time, people are talking about past events. It's about the experiences of an existence that comprises any stage of time during a period of 50 years."
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"Because that film on one side should have all human life of those years, it is telling about a state run company and its 30.000 employees and workers and about 100.000 families. It is talking about changes taking place, about the selling of land that led to the development of trade and about the company being splintered. There are five authentic workers narrating and four actors performing. All of them, side by side, are talking about 50 years of industrial history."
“因为这部电影，一方面所有人都生活在当代，讲一个有三万职工，十万家属这样一个国营大厂，在它转制时期，土地被卖给了开发商，整个工厂被拆掉了，这个电影里面有五个真实工人的讲述，也有四个演员的表演，他们共同来讲述一段50年的工业历史。”
That state run company is "weaponry factory 420". The course of human experiences and emotions during the three ages of that "pattern factory", i.e. during the 1960s and 1980s up to the present age, is mirrored by the changing course of a Chinese town.
国营大厂是420军工厂。通过60年代、80年代以及现代三代“厂花”的人生经历和情感历程，反映中国的城市化进程中。
English translation W.W. /Ulysses
