Kong que (2005)

Director:

Changwei Gu

Writer:

Qiang Li (writer)

Release Date:

18 February 2005 (China)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

China in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the life of an ordinary working family as seen through its three siblings.

Awards:

7 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Jing An
Li Feng	...	Older brother
Changwei Gu	...	Blind man
Liu Guonan
Meiying Huang	...	Mother
Shi Junhui
Lei Liu	...	Guo Zi
Yulai Lu	...	Younger Brother
Lan Wang	...	Jin Zhi
Xiao Wei Yu
Jingchu Zhang	...	Sister
Yiwei Zhao	...	Father
Ping Zong	...	Chinese teacher Wang

Also Known As:

Peacock (International: English title)

Runtime:

Germany:144 min | China:136 min | 244 min (original length)

Country:

China

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Anyang, Henan, China

Company:

Asian Union Film & Entertainment

Trivia:

The full length of the film is about 4 hours. The final theatrical version (domestic and international versions ) has only about half of it.

Movie Connections:

Features Kimi yo fundo no kawa wo watare (1976)

Great movies always remind us of our past and Peacock is one of them

I am 21 year old now, although I don't belong to the time in which the story of Peacock happened, I am a Chinese anyway and I know it would take place in those years and I feel glad and of course proud that someone has put it on screen at last.

We are living in this world, sometimes without a clear purpose: study,work,date and love, not realizing that what we are doing now is called living because life has a magic to obsess its victims with trifles so that they seldom notice that hours,days or months has passed by. Only when we occidentally see a picture taken years ago or view a video starred by our young images,do we find out the trick of life and begin to recall the passing time. Reminiscing is pleasant both for the young and the elder. Memories,no matter sweet or bitter,are like old songs, which will never fail to touch you the moment you catch the familiar tunes.

For me,Peacock is a reminder to my own childhood. Although I live in a different time, the movie does have some traces of the unchanged childhood of every Chinese. We have our dreams but we dare not talk about it with our parents, because in 9 out of 10 cases, our parents will not be impressed by our 'naive' dream and in their eyes, studying is the only way for us. In our adolescence, we boys were very curious about girls but we never had the education about sex and the only thing we were thought was that 'don't do stupid things with girls' and that was the comment about sex or about love.

To some extent, Peacock remains a story which also has some truth. I don't believe in the parachute, but now I think it is only a symbol of dream.It seems a little unreal when a realism contains something romantic.However, it is a 100 percent masterpiece and I'd like to watch it again in spite of the length.