Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Footage: 217min

Year: 1972

导演: Michelangelo Antonioni

片长: 217分钟

出品时间: 1972

Invited to China by the Chinese government, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Antonioni made a documentary about new China which was fiercely condemned by the Chinese government for seeing the "wrong" China (just as Zabriskie Point was denounced for seeing the wrong America).

Chung Kuo consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes kids at an elementary school; older sections of the city; a clinic where a Caesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture; and a cotton mill and its workers. The second part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai. The film and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.

 We see clean streets, apparently happy and well-fed people, bright and beautiful children, an orderly and progressive society... Day-to-day life at every level is captured by the hand-held cameras.

在文化大革命热火朝天地开展之时，Antonioni受中国政府之邀来到中国拍摄关于新中国的纪录片。这部纪录片曾被中国政府猛烈批判，认为它看到的是“不正确”的中国（如同《扎布里斯基角》被指责看到的是不正确的美国一样）。

《中国》由三部分组成。第一部分拍摄于北京，展示了一个小学的学生们、城市的老区、使用针灸技术的剖腹产手上还有一个棉纺厂及其工人等。第二部分参观了红旗渠，还有河南的集体农庄，以及古城苏州。最后一部分拍摄的是上海的码头和工厂。电影在一场中国杂技表演中结束。

我们看到的是整洁的街道，看上去快乐富足的人民，生气勃勃又漂亮可人的少年儿童，有序进步的社会......手持摄像机将各层次的日常生活一一收录。

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