City Dream 城市梦 (2019)

  • Documentary
  • 1h 43m

LuMo Road, a busy street in downtown Wuhan. In the past 14 years, there have been conflicts of interest between hawkers and city managers. Tiancheng Wang is a 70-year-old cerebral apoplexy patient, his wife and his son are disabled person. The only thing that makes them happy is their granddaughter, Pingping, who is in junior high school and is healthy and cheerful. The family had a hard and uneventful life. Until one day, when LuMo Road was planned to be a “jewelry street” in accordance with the city’s development plan and needed to be completely cleared of all street vendors. Strict enforcement of the city management to run over the street vendors? Or is it the “King of Stalls” that nails the city center? The original ecological story of the fight to the death between the city managers and the hawkers, the real process of conflict and interaction between the government and the people. The story is about the ‘city dream’ of Chinese people. You, me and him could be the ‘Tiancheng Wang’.

鲁磨路,武汉市区一条热闹的大街。十四年来,他们与城管之间你进我退、软磨硬抗,成为名副其实的“地摊王”。王天成是70岁的脑中风患者,妻子癌症晚期,儿子是没有右手的残疾人,他们唯一的开心果是正读初中的孙女萍萍,健康开朗。一家人日子过得艰难而平实。直到有一天,鲁磨路按照城市发展规划打造“珠宝一条街”,需要彻底清理所有沿街摊贩。严格执法的城管碾压占道小贩?还是,最牛“地摊王”钉牢城市中心?城管与小贩生死争斗的原生态故事,官民冲突与互动的真实过程。关照当下中国人蓬勃生长的“城市梦”,你、我、他都可能是“王天成”。

Language

Chinese

Available Subtitles

English

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