Jia Zhangke's Hyperlink-politicalized film, 5 separate allegorical stories indicated the great pageantry of Chinese society
The pace of the film is getting didactic within the gradually more moderate commitment of violence in each tableau like atrocious slathering to final self-condemnation.
What the stories about are not necessarily Jia's point, it's the post-modernity behind the frame, a corrupted, abused, patriarchal, capitalism society, were drawn on every characters face. Hal Hartley made a romantic version in 1995.
The long take of slapping the girl's face on the couch is demagogic, but the fight film-alike killing scene is weird in this film.
What the stories about are not necessarily Jia's point, it's the post-modernity behind the frame, a corrupted, abused, patriarchal, capitalism society, were drawn on every characters face. Hal Hartley made a romantic version in 1995.
The long take of slapping the girl's face on the couch is demagogic, but the fight film-alike killing scene is weird in this film.