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Its measured realism, industrial landscapes, and understated encounters extend the melancholy of Unknown Pleasures into a community being physically and emotionally remade by development.
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MOVIE2002 1h 53m CHN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
''Unknown Pleasures'' follows three disaffected, aimless young people in the industrial city of Datong in China's Shanxi province throughout 2001. Nineteen-year-old '''Bin Bin''' (Zhao Weiwei) lives with his mother, an adherent of the Falun Gong, in a small apartment near Datong's textile mill. Bin Bin's best friend, the reckless '''Xiao Ji''' (Wu Qiong), lives in an even smaller apartment with his father, and spends his time riding his motorbike around the city. The two friends eventually meet '''Qiao Qiao''', a young singer and dancer working for the Mongolian King Liquor company as a spokesmodel. Xiao Ji immediately becomes enamored with Qiao Qiao, which gets him in trouble with Qiao Qiao's boyfriend, the loan shark and local thug, '''Qiao San''' (Li Zhubin).
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