Tuesday 3 October 2017

A Touch of Sin (2013) - 135 min

Country: China
Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Jiang Wu, Zhao Tao, Wang Baoqiang & Lanshan Luo.
Based on real life incidents, it unfolds four stories with different motivations for violence. First one is about a loner who fights against corruption. The second, third and the fourth respectively follows the motivation that leads to do violence.
It won the best screenplay award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Apart from the theme, the characters from one story reappears in another and watch closely to see it coming. Like the story, the location also shifts from one place to another and the tradition too. Zhangke Jia draws out his characters to make contact with the surroundings and his intentions were crystal clear from the first shot. It also shows some clue that the stories are somehow related to the Chinese Zodiac. Overall, it shows four different situations of violence, whether it's necessary or not that's up to you.
Verdict: Good

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