A pole-dancing single dad and a pregnant runaway fake-marry their way through Shenzhen's gig economy hellscape.
"Fight Time" tells the story of male and female cattle Dingding and came to Shenzhen to find work in the red, hit the hardest jobs season, when cornered stem from the most world's most Jiong Cock wire work - fun product experience staff. Both companies are arranged to produce the same suite of growing feelings that are red and have a child abandoned by her boyfriend, cattle Dingding father decided to take more responsibility, and with red registration of marriage. Although in reality cruel, hard life, but they are still a dream for families and desperately struggle, even to pole dancing, hanging bottles carrying his son to work expense. In this city, like them, there are many people who work hard, not hard life will be trampled to death, this is the reason for the fight ..
Acting
Steven Hao commits fully to pole-dancing dad dignity.
Production
Shenzhen's neon sprawl vs. cramped worker dorms.
Director
Zheng Yong-gang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shenzhen's 'hukou' residency system traps rural migrants in precarious work without social services—Cattle Dingding and Red are literally unpersons in their own country.
Director Zheng Yong-gang shot this in 2014, before 'lying flat' became China's viral resignation—this is the desperate hustle that made lying flat look revolutionary.
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