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Imprisonment and Forced Servitude in Rural China
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
Every so often in his slow-to-boil, hard-to-shake drama “Blind Mountain,” the Chinese director Li Yang slips in a moment of beauty — a blooming valley wreathed in mist, a shepherd tending his flock — of the sort you find in glossy travel magazines. These pastoral visions initially feel like a reprieve, a respite from the story’s increasing heaviness, but there’s something about these bucolic images that begins to gnaw at you too. This native, touristic fantasy about the unspoiled China, you realize, comes with a brutal price tag. [...]
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