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Jia Hongshen,
Jia Hongshen,
Jia Fengsen,
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Zhang Yang,
Zhang Yang
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: Columbia TriStar
: Drama, Foreign, China
: 112 min.
: Mandarin
: English, Spanish
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Following up on his award-winning opus Shower, Zhang Yang directs this biographical film concerning and starring Chinese film icon Jia Hong-Sheng, who starred in such groundbreaking works as Suzhou River and Frozen. Following initial professional success, Jia falls into a spiral of depression and drug abuse. Soon he drops out from Beijing's acting scene, withdraws from friends, and locks himself in his apartment listening to old records. His parents, who run a small theater troupe in a remote corner of Northeast China, are elated over their son's success but grow increasingly concerned with his anti-social behavior. Soon they, along with the entire population of the apartment building they live in, venture to Beijing hoping to get Jia out of his funk. Eventually, Jia is committed to a mental institution that makes the one in Titicut Follies look like a trip to Disneyland. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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by johnnyclock
February 10, 2005 - 7:38 PM PST
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3 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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There is no abuse of patients in the portrayal of a Chinese mental hospital in this film. Whether that is an accurate representation of mental asylum life in China, I have no way of knowing. But there is no comparison with the terrible abuse that goes on in the Massachusetts hospital that the documentary Titicut Follies chronicles. In fact, I kept thinking that for a mental hospital, the one portrayed in Quitting was too good to be true.
That having been said, the film seems a realistic portrayal of the life of this young man and his family. It was interesting to me to see scenes that are in no fundamental respect different from scenes I have seen in American life when that life has run into the same kinds of situations: drug addiction, mental illness, and so forth.
It's a personal drama, a family drama.
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