At first glance, Last Train Home is a movie about what is touted as the greatest human migration on earth, the annual homecoming of Chinese migrant workers for Chinese New Year’s. But upon closer inspection, this documentary actually is a gripping family drama about the effects of having absentee parents (and believe me, I know how that feels). It follows the story of a married couple who work seven days a week in a jeans factory in one of the country’s inhospitable industrial cities while their children live with their grandmother several hundred miles away in an impoverished village. The beauty of this documentary is that it starts off with the subjects being very polite and courteous to one another in the presence of a film crew but as the months past, the tensions between the couple and their rebellious eldest daughter come boiling to the surface. This is a must see.
RSS
Archive
Mobile
