Chicken Poets
2002 · 94 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 144 VOTES · DIR. Jing Hui Meng
Overview
Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yun Fei starts a relationship with a colorblind young girl who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It’s at this point that he buys a pirated record whose magical powers bring him the success he’s longed for. However, sudden fame does not seem to solve everything. The first film of Beijing theatre director Meng Jing Hui, Chicken Poets is an insightful and poetic look at materialism and the younger generation in China.
Dialogue Timeline — 756 lines
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00:00:30 Let those who grow moldy with merriment die off quickly
00:03:33 What do you write?
00:05:47 Why did you come here?
00:08:40 white-shelled eggs are utter chicken shit
00:12:56 Airport Chicken farm
00:18:31 Ouyang Yunfei, I'm fed up with you
00:21:04 I will forget time, mood, life
00:24:12 You're a poet, right?
00:27:31 And by the way I do have a boyfriend
00:29:12 Can't he give her two cartons of black chicken eggs instead?
00:31:07 Yunfei, even if my life is the worst
00:35:05 Here, have this. It's strong
00:37:05 Oh, he wants your money too?
00:40:52 Wait, wait
00:44:13 I'll bow to everyone I'll kneel to everyone
00:45:54 You can't stay confined in a dark room for too long
00:53:21 Poetry requires perpetual revolution
00:56:18 This is Tian Pingyuan This is Yunfei
01:01:52 They are gentle and they like to associate with poets
01:07:49 You know why I envy you? Why?
01:10:49 Do you understand?
01:14:14 There was no signal
01:17:59 I see emotion fading for those unattainable things
01:21:32 Are you going to leave?