{"id":387035,"date":"2021-12-29T03:54:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy\/"},"modified":"2021-12-29T03:54:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:54:24","slug":"watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Striding Into the Wind&#8217; Review: Charming, Baggy Chinese Slacker Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af61cb164e4e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af61cb164e4e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Striding_Into_the_Wind_Review_Charming_Baggy_Chinese_Slacker_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Striding Into the Wind&#8217; Review: Charming, Baggy Chinese Slacker Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Striding_Into_the_Wind_Review_Charming_Baggy_Chinese_Slacker_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Striding Into the Wind&#8217; Review: Charming, Baggy Chinese Slacker Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-striding-into-the-wind-review-charming-baggy-chinese-slacker-comedy\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Striding_Into_the_Wind_Review_Charming_Baggy_Chinese_Slacker_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Striding Into the Wind&#8217; Review: Charming, Baggy Chinese Slacker Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Striding_Into_the_Wind_Review_Charming_Baggy_Chinese_Slacker_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Striding Into the Wind&#8217; Review: Charming, Baggy Chinese Slacker Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        If the \u201cslacker movie\u201d moment h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened in the U.S. in part as a new generation\u2019s reaction against the economic boom \u2014 and growing income inequality \u2014 of the 1980s and \u201990s, it\u2019s high time a similar indie movement emerged in China, where rampant economic expansion and its many casualties have been the ceaseless story of the past four decades. And perhaps it will, now that there\u2019s an unassumingly perfect foundational text in Wei Shujun\u2019s debut feature, \u201cStriding Into the Wind,\u201d which may be set in modern-day Beijing but putters along like an affectionate throwback to the droll rhythms of early Richard Linklater or Jim Jarmusch.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, in terms of storyline, those touch points are more evident in Wei\u2019s episodic, personal narrative than are Hou Hsiao-hsien or Wong Kar-wai or even Hong Sang-soo \u2014 the filmmakers overtly name-checked by Ming (Wang Xiaomu), the director of the film-within-a-film in this mischievously meta long-form doodle. Ming is making his thesis film \u2014 the semi-improvised story of a Mongolian herdswoman searching for her husband in a Beijing amusement park \u2014 and has hired fellow film student Kun (Zhou You) as his sound engineer. (Wei originally studied movie sound, and there is some rueful satire in how poorly sound guys are treated here, especially compared with director Ming\u2019s borderline hero-worship of his film\u2019s DP.)<\/p>\n<p>Kun, a lanky fellow sporting a hipster mullet, has in turn recruited his chubby, good-natured but even more shambolic best friend Tong (Tong Linkai) as his boom operator. Together the two snigger through lectures on foley techniques in courses Kun has repeated rather too often. After-hours they try out quick make-a-buck schemes that inevitably come to naught: primping a local businessman\u2019s dreams of pop stardom; happening on a sideline in selling purloined exam papers. Kun\u2019s father is a police officer, his mother a schoolteacher, and he also has a girlfriend, Zhi (Zheng Yingchen), who works as a hostess at marketing events in malls and hotels. But perhaps his most meaningful relationship, and the one that gives this loose-limbed story whatever shape it has, is with his pre-owned Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>Kun doesn\u2019t have a license and can barely cover the gas costs, let alone the upkeep, on a vehicle so frequently in need of replacement parts that by the end it\u2019s a kind of Jeep of Theseus, its only remaining original feature being its tenacious coat of dirt. But without landing too heavily on the metaphor (the screenplay by Wei and Gao Linyang takes care to appear carefree), the clapped-out car also represents exactly the kind of rugged, adventurous individualism that China\u2019s conformist, money- and status-oriented new society makes little room for. The very first scene is of Kun flaming out spectacularly during a driving lesson in which a convoy of identical white hatchbacks weave obediently through a cramped obstacle course of traffic bollards. And toward the end, when Kun has lost not just his car but his mullet and is wearing the same bright orange jumpsuit as his fellow detainees, he looks out a window to where a squadron of prisoners are exercising in formation. From high above, they form the patterns of uplifting Chinese characters, every man in his place, each indistinguishable from his neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes like these, and background details like the velvet-rope section in a high-rise car park or the peeling U.S. road-map decal on the Jeep\u2019s back windshield \u2014 tell us there\u2019s more under the hood of Wei\u2019s disarmingly perceptive film. And Wang Jiehong\u2019s quietly excellent cinematography bears that out: Even when the pacing lags during yet another entertaining but unnecessary example of Kun\u2019s fecklessness, there\u2019s always an arresting shot or some inventive staging to make it worthwhile. Perhaps there is a little Hou Hsiao-hsien, after all, in the\u00a0 precise choreography of two glass elevators during a long take in a mall. And maybe there is a little lo-fi Wong Kar-wai in an unexpected nighttime tryst that occurs perfectly framed in a smear of light caught in the windscreen\u2019s grime.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Kun makes his oft-touted road <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Inner Mongolia, to shoot pickup footage for Ming\u2019s film and record authentic grassland ambience. But that journey, too, is a letdown: The local chief puts on a \u201cvery ethnic minority-ish\u201d show for the visitors, and any other angle on the carefully dressed set \u2014 a small nomad\u2019s tent \u2014 reveals electricity pylons and corrugated shacks nearby. It\u2019s a bittersweet last hurrah for this brief, doomed love affair between a young man and \u2014 age-gap critics take note \u2014 his distinctly elderly Jeep, and a strangely moving analogy for the fading hopes of even the most disaffected youth, realizing that the trap of adulthood is much bigger than previously imagined, and it has already been sprung.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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