Trashy Boy

Trashy Boy

Zheng Yifei • 2022

Duration: 01:37:39
Language: Mandarin, Gansu dialect
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country/Region: Mainland China

Big Sponge is a young man in a small western Chinese town who left school early and lives alone. Wandering streets through long nights, he freestyles rap to express life. After failed love and a robbery leading to trial, pressure forces him to confront reality and attempt change.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

Most Potential Project

West Lake International Documentary Festival

China

2019

Tokyo Docs

Japan

2021

First Feature Award & Audience Choice Award

FIRST International Film Festival

China

2022

Outstanding Chinese Documentary Award

West Lake International Documentary Festival

China

2023

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Zheng Yifei

Zheng Yifei

Director

“Trashy Boy” records the inner struggles of a “troubled teenager” in a small town in western China after gradually becoming disconnected with his school and family. After suffering from “Purpura” in childhood, treatment led to obesity.After high school, he had strained relations with his parents and also left school.After enjoying hip-hop music, he lived in secluded places and only wandered in the streets late at night. He put his dissatisfaction and hope with life in the Freestyle. When the virtual love and network live streaming appear in his life, it brings more troubles. The structure of a society often unfolds its picture in the spiritual realm of the individual in a very violent way. The “Xiao Wu" of a network era, roaming in the sensitive and lonely night.There will be another sun at night, crowned him with gentle light.

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