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Last Train Home, 2009

Starring: Suqin Chen, Changhua Zhan, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang

Directed by: Lixin Fan

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Language: Mandarin

Country: Canada, China, UK

Runtime: 85 min

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Rating:7.6

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Last Train Home can be described as thought provoking, emotional, and gloomy. The plot revolves around adolescence vs. adulthood, the working class, and a family in crisis. The main genres are documentary and foreign. In approach, Last Train Home is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a factory and on a train. It is located in China. Last Train Home takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being a masterpiece and an award winner.

Summary of Last Train Home

Each year in China more than 130 million migrant workers travel home for the New Year's holiday—the one time they’ll reunite with family all year. The mass exodus constitutes the world’s largest human migration. Amid this chaos, director Lixin Fan focuses on one couple, Changhua and Sugin Zhang, who embark upon a two-day journey to see their children.

The Zhangs left their rural village for factory jobs when their children were just infants. Now a teenager, daughter Qin resents their continual absence. Yearning for her own freedom, she quits school to work in a factory herself. Her parents, who see education as their children’s one hope, are devastated.

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Language:	Mandarin
Country:	Canada, China, UK
Release date:	23 January 2010
Runtime:	85 min

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Suqin Chen

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Changhua Zhan

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Yang Zhang

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This documentary is a rare glance into the lives of millions of Chinese people, who travel long distances every year to be reunited with their family. The movie is highly emotional, and raises some very important issues regarding family life and... Read and rate it

06.September.2010
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by: indi
indi rated this movie9/10Amazing

Fantastic movie

"Last Train Home" is a touching film about Chinese families who have to cooperate with the working class living conditions. It shows their daily struggles, their unique lifestyle that is forced upon them and the way of dealing with that, as a... Read and rate it

06.September.2010
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by: meirav
meirav rated this movie8/10Great

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