On the Beat (1995 film)

On the Beat Chinese pinyin Mn jng g sh literally Peoples Police Story is a 1995 Chinese film directed by Ning Ying. It is the second film in Ning Yings Beijing Trilogy, a collection of three films that follows the massive changes to Beijing in the last decades of the twentieth century. Whereas Nings previous film, For Fun dealt with the older generation, On the Beat is firmly focused on the story of the middleaged. I Love Beijing, meanwhile, would follow characters belonging Beijings younger generations. On the Beat was coproduced by Eurasia Communications, Euskal Media and the stateoperated Beijing Film Studio. Some funding was also from the International Film Festival Rotterdams Hubert Bals Fund.

On the Beat consists mainly of a series of vignettes involving members of a local precinct in the Beijing Public Security Bureau. Filmed in the slow months of December, January, and February the members of the PSB find they have little in the way of substantive police work. Instead they spend time and manpower on small incidents like the chasing of a possibly rabid dog, the arrest of a smalltime con artist, and the reprimanding of a man who sells posters of a woman in a bathing suit.Though the incidents seem small, the PSB treats each with deadly seriousness, often to comedic effect. The film culminates in the arrest and intense interrogation of a man who may have insulted a police officer. Realizing that they have no evidence, the officers bluster as they attempt to avoid losing face. ........

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