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Blind Mountain
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Manufacturer: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Starring: Huang Lu, Yang Youan
Directed By: Li Yang
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329060121
Format: Color
Label: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Manufacturer: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2009-01-06
Running Time: 95
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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BASED ON HORRIFIC TRUE EVENTS
Li Yang, the award-winning Blind Shaft director and (master of cinematic tension - Screen International), raises the stakes in Blind Mountain, a (resolutely tough minded, beautifully crafted film - LA Times) of uncompromising intensity. In rural early 90 s China, Bai (Lu Huang), a pretty and enterprising college student, travels to a remote, mist shrouded mountain village in the company of a pair of affable strangers. But what Bai thought was an expedition to gather herbs for resale turns into a (true crime shocker - NY Times) when her fellow travelers sell her into slavery. This can t be happening!, Bai screams on awakening from a drugged stupor to find herself (married) to a middle-aged pig farmer, and her freedom, identity, and dignity stolen. Yang s (hard-to-shake drama - NY Times) depicts Bai s horrific ordeal with both gravity and the kind of (stunningly realistic - New Yorker) detail that emphasizes the authenticity of the all too common predicament that she fights to escape. Contrasting the exotic beauty of its locale and a (very fine lead turn by Lu Huang - Time Out London) with the cruelty of a system that tolerates human trafficking and a community that thrives on it, Blind Mountain premiered to (a thunderclap of applause and cheers from the audience - Time) at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Summary: A must-see!
Comment: Watching this film will be a challenge because of its candid portral of poverty, desire,intrigue,and ignorance, and it shows an aspect of contemporary Chinese life that you will never see in the films of Zhang Yimou. Yes. This is Li Yang,a director who captures the darkest side of China and expose it,but here you can still see that people are not born evil even when are doing evil things...go watch it.
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Summary: A remarkable film
Comment: Bai Xuemei, recently graduated from college, is unwittingly sold, not by her family but by her friends, to a villager deep in the bowels of mountainous rural China ... in the 1990s! This is not a documentary. It's almost a typical horror film pacing through a Texas Chainsaw Massacre style suffocating terror without any blood, but there's psychological and physical abuse, including rape--father and mother hold Bai Xuemei down while her purchaser rapes her. Ouch!
China is a vast expanse and this film's cinematography captures that space wonderfully. Bai Xuemei is so far up in the mountains it is simply too far away for her to run to safety.
Lu Huang who plays Bai Xuemei is the only professional actor in the film. The rest of the cast, from the shopkeeper to the Village Chief, are actual villagers. When the police arrive to make a rescue and the whole village gangs up on them demanding the girl repay the 7,000 they paid for her if she is to return home, it rings with a frightening authenticity. I watched this film feeling that with 5 minutes left to go she would be rescued despite everything suggesting otherwise.
It's not that kind of film. Blind Mountain is an essay on the collision of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. It's not pedantic, nor is it belittling to the realities of the culture at its source, but it's hard not to see it that way, especially through 21st-century, western eyes. The film does a remarkable job of showing that it's not a matter of simply enforcing contemporary law. It's much deeper and difficult than that.
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