"Getting Home" (2007, Director: Zhang Yang)

It is one of the best Chinese films produced in the year 2007. Like Zhang Yang's earlier film "Shower" it is also an unusual story but honest tale of ordinary people. It is also a pulse counter of modern(developed). The film reflects the humane side of Chinese society as well as the emerging callous class difference and developmental paradigm of the society. The plot follows Zhao as a construction worker whose best friend dies, leaving him to fulfil a promise that he will return his body to his distant hometown. Short on money, the determined Zhao decides to carry his friend's corpse on his back, relying on help from the people he meets on his travels…