The Chinese Mayor
2015 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 913 VOTES · DIR. Zhou Hao
Overview
Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Tanbo plans to change all that, announcing a bold, new plan to return Datong to its former glory, the cultural haven it was some 1,600 years ago. Such declarations, however, come at a devastatingly high cost. Thousands of homes are to be bulldozed, and a half-million of its residents (30 percent of Datong’s total population) will be relocated under his watch. Whether he succeeds depends entirely on his ability to calm swarms of furious workers and an increasingly perturbed ruling elite. The Chinese Mayor captures, with remarkable access, a man and, by extension, a country leaping frantically into an increasingly unstable future.
Dialogue Timeline — 76 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:06 TRAFFIC, CAR HORN HONKS
00:03:14 CAR DOOR OPENS
00:07:42 LOUD BANGING
00:08:21 HE KNOCKS ON DOOR
00:09:30 CAR HORN HONKS
00:16:33 SHE SOBS
00:20:50 LAUGHTER
00:27:34 LAUGHTER
00:30:07 LOUD BANGING
00:36:24 MAN WHISPERS TO GENG
00:40:08 LOUD BANGING IN DISTANCE
00:43:22 CONSTRUCTION NOISE IN DISTANCE
00:47:04 MAN SINGS
00:50:03 GROUP SING:
00:55:48 APPLAUSE
01:08:27 ENGINE STARTS
01:13:59 LAUGHTER
01:16:11 THEY CHANT:
01:17:32 HE SNIFFS