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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Foreign Movie Review: LAST TRAIN HOME (2010) A+

An excellent movie that gives new insight into the world of a large percentage of the people in China.

At the time of the Chinese new year, many of China's cities and railroads are plunged into chaos as at least 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the holiday. This mass exodus is one of the world's largest human annual migrations . . . an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

From Promotional Material:
In this movie we follow the lives and travels of one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost 20 years. Like so many of China's rural poor, who can't live off of the land, the couple left behind their two infant children with older grandparents for grueling factory jobs in the bigger cities. Their daughter, a restless and rebellious teenager-both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the unhappiness of her parents. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home's intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China's ascendance as an economic superpower.

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Warren is retired and lives in Florida where he runs a foreign movie program for adults. He subscribes to NETFLIX and uses Rotten Tomatoes as one of the sources for selecting movies to review.

Started watching movies at about eight years old and was strongly influenced by "Fantasia" for it's combination of music and fantasy. He was profoundly impacted in his early teen years by the social content in "I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG".

As a kid he used to enter the movie house in the middle of a double feature and leave when the movie reached the part where he came in. Loved serials and was able to see most double features for ten or twenty-five cents.

A graduate of Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY), he strongly believes that good movies . . . with mature content . . . are a significant supplement to education and insight into the world around us. No egghead, he also believes that "It's A Wonderful Life", "Young Frankenstein", "The Producers", West Side Story", and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" are great films.