Touch of Sin
Touch of Sin
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Master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (Platform; The World; Still Life) brings to the screen four true stories of violence and corruption from across the Chinese provinces. A film the Chinese government deemed too incendiary for release, A TOUCH OF SIN is a shocking examination of a major world power sitting on a self-reflective cusp. Jia Zhangke --- China --- 2013 --- 133 min.

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  | JohnH#1

When I was a young Foreign Service office in Hong Kong in the early 1960s an Old China Hand who was posted in Shanghai in 1949 told me that when the triumphant Communist army marched up the Bund he leaned out his office window and cheered. Conditions in China had become so miserable and corrupt that he hoped the Communists who rectify matters. If a military intelligence officer could be believed, the Communists did: imposing equality by making everyone poor. A touch of sin shows that the bad old days of rampant corruption, unequal distribution of wealth, justice delayed and denied, shabbiness and misery have returned with a vengeance. Once again victims are forced to exact revenge as the only way out. Another confirmation that what goes round comes round. By the way: if Touch of sin can be believed smoking is so commonplace in China that I wonder if the country won't soon be overwhelmed by epidemics of heart failure and lung cancer.

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