CSSAP - Chinese Students & Scholars Association at Penn


*Let's take the train to the Spring together with them!*

Director: Zhang Yibai 　 Cast: Geng Le ... Liu Jianbin Xu Jinglei ... Chen Xiaohui Zhang Yang ... Lao Hu Wang Ning ... Li Chuan Fan Wei ... Wang Yao Ke Lan ... Saleswoman Gao Yuanyuan ... Tian Ai Tu Qiang ... Da Ming 　 Cinema: CSSAP theatre

Foreword

Its your choice where to get on and off, or simply keep going, treading water aeternum. At the same time, there's nothing pretentious or condescending about it. Finally you will find out in your life you took the similar train, got on/off the similar stops like them did, or are still lingering in the station!

Review from viewers

"Spring Subway is awash with symbolism and metaphors, chiefly life's similarity to being on a train. Geng Le (Restless, Beijing Rocks) plays Jian Bin, unemployed for three months but fearful of sharing these bad news with his wife Xiao Hui (glorious Xu Jing Lei of previous Zhang Yibai works Shower and Spicy Love Soup). The couple has seen their once brightly burning passion dulled by routine, to the point where both still love each other tremendously yet cannot motivate enough to prevent feelings of detachment and alienation from entering their reality. Hence, Jian Bin rides the subway in circles all day, lying to Xiao Hui that he's been at work, desperately seeking new meaning to his shattered life. En route he observes other love affairs and quests of the heart, as strangers on the train go about their own little emotional odysseys........."

"是一部完全意义上的爱情电影，影片诗一般地刻画了两个年轻人的内心的情感纠葛：它从“分手”讲起，讲述的不是相爱的甜蜜，而是相处的艰难，不再是宣讲爱情的永恒，而是探讨爱情的限度。这样，地铁似乎成了城市新的避护所，收容着在现实生活中迷失自己的城市人们。"

"This may be one of the most thoroughly "international" Beijing films yet. With its cappuccino drinkers and sleekly modern settings, it could just as easily be a story from any urban capital: San Francisco, Tokyo, London. Greater than the sum of its parts, Spring Subway whirls forward with a giddy rush of feeling - it's at the same time romantic and post-romantic, which should please both paying audiences and jaded critics - flaunting a new, state of the art flair for the global urban culture all its own........"

"The story starts with a "white lie." Jian Bin, played by Geng Le ("In the Heat of the Sun") has been unemployed for three months but cannot bring himself to tell his wife of seven years (Xu Jing Lei -- "I Love You"). Their relationship has closed down, only able to talk about the most banal topics. Every morning he puts on a suit and tie, takes his briefcase and pretends to leave for work. But instead of going to work he spends the day riding the subway. In the subway, the camera discovers other couples and other worlds. Each pair has a different rhythm and a different way of communicating. Meanwhile, Jian Bin becomes desperate as he begins to run out of money and excuses. And we also learn that his wife has her secrets too . . . ."

Past Movies

Title	Time	Location	Description
Huo Zhe(Lifetimes)	7:00pm-9:00pm, 3/7/2003	Logan Hall 17	Ge You, Gong Li. Awards for the best actor (Ge You), and for Interpretation of Man in the International Film Festival of Cannes, France (1994).
Gu Jin Da Zhan Qin Yong Qing(Fight and love with a terracotta warrior.)	9:00pm-11:00pm, 3/7/2003	Logan Hall 17	Gong Li, Zhang Yimou, Yu Rongguang. The first martial art film by Zhang Yimou and Chen Xiaodong (Martial art director of Hero.) A very romantic love story, very beautiful scenes (1991)
Hero	6:30pm-8:30pm, 1/17/2003	Meyerson Hall B1	This movie broke the box office record in China. The theaters have sold more tickets for Hero than for any other movie. It is about three assassins who try to kill the first emperor of China. The actors of the movie include Li Lian Jie (Jet Li), Zhang Man Yu (Maggie Cheung), Liang Chao Wei (Tony Leung), Zhang Zi Yi, and Chen Dao Ming. http://www.herothemovie.com
Together with You	8:30pm-10:30pm, 1/17/2003	Meyerson Hall B1	It is a touching story about a young boy from the village coming to the big city Beijing struggling to become a musician. He luckly met people who gave him the helping hand. Later he found out about his... The plot is really great, and the famous characters are Chen Hong, Wang Zhi Wen...

Location Information:

Meyerson Hall B1: Locust at 34th http://cml.upenn.edu/miscellaneous/viewmeyerson.htm
　