Still Corners - The Trip

[Bonus live version ➜    • Still Corners - The Trip (Live)  ] 🔽if you want to support my channel🔽 [Tips & Video Requests ➜ https://en.tipeee.com/clarencito] [Still Corners - Strange Pleasures ➜ https://amzn.to/2yih9Qp] [Amazon Shop ➜ https://www.amazon.com/shop/clarencito] [Instagram ➜   / clarencito.yt  ] 🔻READ ME🔻 Coming across the filmography of the chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke i couldn't help but notice many similarities. Through the pursuit of love/freedom/roots etc. by the main character (usually played by actress Zhao Tao), his movies really want to depict a portrait of a vast nation, China, changing through time; preparing itself for a capitalist superpower status in 21th century, but retaining the autocratic political habits of communism: high-handedly ordering the displacement of a million-and-a-half people, and the abolition of thousands of years of history. This is often symbolized by the "Three Gorges Dam": a gigantic engineering project, dreamed of by Chinese leaders almost throughout the 20th century, wich has meant flooding huge areas near the Yangtze River. This alone has caused it to be condemned as an eco-calamity in the making, and it has meant the entire evacuation of the city of Fengjie, which is where most of his stories take place. Following the life of Zhao Tao characters, this video wants to be a reinterpretation of the "trip" through both time & space in China. List of movies: Unknown Pleasures (2002) [Chinese: Rèn xiāo yáo; literally: “Free from all constraints”] ➜ https://amzn.to/2QpZ3BY Still Life (2006) [Chinese: Sānxiá hǎorén; literally: “Good People of the Three Gorges”] ➜ https://amzn.to/3bcdfqx A Touch of Sin (2013) [Chinese: Tiān zhùdìng; literally: “Day of Destiny”] ➜ https://amzn.to/2Ui1qYY Mountains May Depart (2015) [Chinese: Shānhé gùrén; literally: “Old Man of the Mountain River”] ➜ https://amzn.to/2IYrMtz Ash Is Purest White (2018) [Chinese: Jiānghú érnǚ; literally: “Sons and Daughters of Jianghu”] ➜ https://amzn.to/2x8fCeY Music: "The Trip" by Still Corners. Lyrics: Time has come to go Pack your bags, hit the open road Our hearts just won't die It's the trip, keeps us alive Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh So many miles So many miles So many miles Away They're following some dance of light Tearing into the night Watching you fall asleep The sweetest dove in a dream Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh So many miles So many miles So many miles Away #StillCorners #TheTrip #JiaZhangke #AshIsPurestWhite #aTouchOfSin #StillLife #MountainsMayDepart