Blind Shaft (2003)
(Mang jing)
Country: HK
Technical: col 92m
Director: Li Yang
Cast: Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, Wang Baoqiang
Synopsis:
Two miners in China run a scam of inveigling the callow unemployed into working down the pit, then faking their deaths and claiming familial compensation.
Review:
Effective both as compelling human drama - the relationship between the heartless pair and their latest quarry is far from straightforward - and as an exposé of conditions in China: the men send most of their money home to their wives, for their children's education, etc., the mining sequences are reminiscent of something out of Zola; one character revealingly observes: 'the only thing we have too much of in China is people'.
(Mang jing)
Country: HK
Technical: col 92m
Director: Li Yang
Cast: Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, Wang Baoqiang
Synopsis:
Two miners in China run a scam of inveigling the callow unemployed into working down the pit, then faking their deaths and claiming familial compensation.
Review:
Effective both as compelling human drama - the relationship between the heartless pair and their latest quarry is far from straightforward - and as an exposé of conditions in China: the men send most of their money home to their wives, for their children's education, etc., the mining sequences are reminiscent of something out of Zola; one character revealingly observes: 'the only thing we have too much of in China is people'.
(Mang jing)
Country: HK
Technical: col 92m
Director: Li Yang
Cast: Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, Wang Baoqiang
Synopsis:
Two miners in China run a scam of inveigling the callow unemployed into working down the pit, then faking their deaths and claiming familial compensation.
Review:
Effective both as compelling human drama - the relationship between the heartless pair and their latest quarry is far from straightforward - and as an exposé of conditions in China: the men send most of their money home to their wives, for their children's education, etc., the mining sequences are reminiscent of something out of Zola; one character revealingly observes: 'the only thing we have too much of in China is people'.