{"id":620959,"date":"2024-05-18T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-jia-puts-old-footage-to-poetic-new-use\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:51:21","slug":"watch-jia-puts-old-footage-to-poetic-new-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jia-puts-old-footage-to-poetic-new-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jia Puts Old Footage to Poetic New Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a3eca602bd76\" 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-6a3eca602bd76\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jia-puts-old-footage-to-poetic-new-use\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Jia_Puts_Old_Footage_to_Poetic_New_Use%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Jia Puts Old Footage to Poetic New Use&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jia-puts-old-footage-to-poetic-new-use\/#%E2%80%9CJia_Puts_Old_Footage_to_Poetic_New_Use%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Jia Puts Old Footage to Poetic New Use&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Jia_Puts_Old_Footage_to_Poetic_New_Use%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Jia Puts Old Footage to Poetic New Use&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJia_Puts_Old_Footage_to_Poetic_New_Use%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Jia Puts Old Footage to Poetic New Use&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke\u2018s mesmerizing \u201cCaught by the Tides,\u201d a masterfully poetic and pioneering fusion of the old and the new, can be translated in several ways. Jia himself suggests \u201cThe Drifting Generation,\u201d but it can also mean \u201cThe Romantic Generation\u201d with the etymology of \u201cromantic\u201d lying in the Chinese words for wind and current. The restless motion of the natural world is certainly captured in the English title\u2019s reference to an ocean\u2019s ebb and flow. But what that version cannot adequately convey is the airiness and the yearning that Jia whips in to \u201cCaught by the Tides\u201d \u2014 quite miraculously considering he is largely working with repurposed footage from across the last 23 years of his justly celebrated career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Loosely speaking a love story, \u201cTides\u201d is also perhaps the most definitive national portrait that Jia, modern China\u2019s foremost cinematic chronicler, has ever delivered. This is what it might look like if the eye of the storm of 21st century China\u2019s many transformations could tell us what it saw \u2026 or could sing us, perhaps. For the most part, Jia\u2019s new-old film features little sync dialogue and unfolds as a flowing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of extended montages with a musicality that is a splendid testament to the work of its three editors, Yang Chao, Lin Xudong and Matthieu Laclau \u2014 not to mention the use of actual music. Jia\u2019s trademark fondness for the unexpected soundtrack cut finds its zenith here, as rave music, rock music, pop and dance anthems counterpoint the sometimes grim visuals, adding a splash of color to gray landscapes, like discarded bubblegum gritted into tarmac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And so it is appropriate that \u201cCaught by the Tides\u201d begins with singing. In low-grade digital video, a group of women huddled against the cold around a stove celebrate Women\u2019s Day with a good-natured sing-off. One by one they are cajoled into participating, their unexpectedly lovely, untrained voices elevating the dingy surroundings. This documentary intro (Jia has worked in fiction, nonfiction and hybrid forms across his career) may at first seem unrelated to the larger narrative, except in placing us in Datong, where many of his films are set, around the year 2001. But actually right here already exist many of his macro <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\">theme<\/a>s, in the love songs, folk songs and sentimental ballads of popular patriotism that the women choose. \u201cTides\u201d will be very much about women \u2014 or at least a woman \u2014 facing down the romance and the struggle of life in beloved, difficult China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The woman is Qiao Qiao, played by Jia\u2019s wife, Zhao Tao, whose pivotal position within Jia\u2019s canon requires we find a word less passive than \u201cmuse\u201d and less antiseptic than \u201ccollaborator.\u201d Using sequences from \u201cUnknown Pleasures\u201d (2002), their first movie together, Qiao Qiao is introduced to us radiant with youth, coquettishly responding to the wolf-whistles of local guys in her neighborhood. She falls in love with Bin, played by Li Zhubin who co-starred along with Zhao in \u201cUnknown Pleasures,\u201d \u201cStill Life\u201d (2006) and \u201cA Touch of Sin\u201d (2013). But in a motif that repeats itself across Jia\u2019s filmography, especially in the bookends of \u201cUnknown Pleasures\u201d and \u201cAsh is Purest White\u201d (2018), the young man leaves Datong and his lovelorn girlfriend behind to find his fortune. Qiao Qiao spends many years looking for him, before a reunion in midlife will force her to the melancholic conclusion that the person she has become during her search has outgrown its object in almost every conceivable way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Jia\u2019s films are not overtly feminist, but his admiration for the survivorship of women is an ongoing feature. And Qiao Qiao, who here is not technically mute but hardly ever speaks, is a survivor: Across the films Jia samples, she has survived not only bad boyfriends, economic privation, massive social upheaval, crime, violence and imprisonment, but also the many changes in mood and genre that his work encompasses. It means that \u201cCaught by the Tides,\u201d despite its seemingly quixotic ambition to forge a new (albeit slender) narrative out of manifold story and character strands, can emerge as a powerfully coherent portrait of a single woman, from youth to middle age, even though only a few sections were specifically shot for this film, among them the final part, when Qiao Qiao returns to Datong in 2023. It brings the social commentary right up to date with witty vignettes detailing a toothless local eccentric\u2019s 1.2 million-strong <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> following and Qiao Qiao\u2019s oddly charming encounters with a courteous supermarket robot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Jia\u2019s risky experiment is so uncannily successful that it is possible to come away from \u201cTides\u201d with the whimsical impression that this was the film he was building toward all this time, as though all those lauded previous movies were simply him amassing the raw material for this one.\u00a0Because the form of \u201cTides,\u201d which is indivisible from its themes and from the lingering effect of its gorgeously looping internal structure, is impossible to ignore but also less than crucial to understand in minute detail. The Jia devotee may wish to parse each scene for its provenance, and in the unfakeably authentic aging process of the actors, or their costumes, or the aspect ratio or stock quality, they will find enough evidence to be able to place much of the film back into its prior context. But \u201cTides\u201d exerts its own inexorable pull, and as a mid-career moment of transcendence for Jia, it feels less like a grace note than an act of liberation. The Chinese title of \u201cUnknown Pleasures\u201d translates to \u201cfree from constraints,\u201d and after this majestic work of melancholic retrospection, Jia seems free indeed, to turn toward the future as the winds settle and the tide recedes, and the beach looks like a stretch of limitless unsullied possibility. <\/p>\n<\/div>\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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