Thursday, September 24, 2015
Under the curtain
Today's film was shot in China in secret.
There are no homosexuals in China so a film about a western man and a Chinese man falling in love would be banned.
I may be the only person who has watched this film. Well, not really. But there are only a few reviews and as it could not be shown in its "mother" country it had to fight for distribution elsewhere. And it was put together in Hong Kong. So it is barely Chinese in the first place. What I think of, anachronistically, as "Red China". Hey. I was brought up that way. And it is red if not Red.
is about a western man who falls in love with a Chinese man as well as a few people around them who are affected by the situation.
The basic idea is taken from a real incident in another country where a man washes up on a beach naked and cannot speak. Or will not.
The story is a speculation about what happened although we are given to believe that he is telling the story.
It is a bit cockeyed as a result of this. Different perspectives meld together and whether we are listening to his thoughts or someone else's view of the story is not always clear.
I liked it anyway. I am uncritical about a lot of these things but I can see why it has never gone anywhere.
I am happy to have it in our collection and enjoy it when I watch. A 3 out of Netflix5.
