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?
00:05:51 Why did I come here?
00:08:49 I want to drive white eggs away from all the tables
00:13:04 Shanghai
00:18:41 Now you're a grown man... and I'm still taking care of you
00:21:20 I know this is my last stop
00:25:38 What do you want me for?
00:27:49 Claustrophobia?
00:29:46 The ignorant black egg is fearless
00:32:27 I will be a tree
00:35:31 The cost of one black egg is 23 ø
00:38:24 Did he write during the day or at night?
00:41:32 Now it only costs $10
00:44:55 Baths, saunas, singing dancing, drinking
00:48:30 Naturalist Symbolist Hyperrealist poetry
00:54:12 And pursue the courage to live a good life
00:57:10 Everyone wants to sleep with her
01:05:34 Don't ever bother me again
01:08:20 I will not say that Why not?
01:12:49 You are my white
01:16:57 Today I wanted to die
01:20:11 I think of her when a plane flies over
16:06:06 dark chicken eggs