Wang Yichun returns to NYAFF with a film where pretty much everyone is morally compromised.
The film has Sheng Li getting out of prison after serving two decades on trumped up charges. Seeing out the person who accused him he ends up getting talked into kidnapping the woman's boss' son. Complications arise.
This is a good, if a bit rambling, comedy. Everyone in it has a wonky sense of morality to the point that the kid who gets kidnapped is taken to a doctor because he has a good heart.
As with Yinchun's earlier film WHAT'S IN THE DARK the film is trying to juggle too many balls. Yinchun is trying to do a bit too much there seem to be all sorts of thematic threads involving class, morals, father son relationships and other things running through it that seem to be highlighted as if they mean something, but a bunch are never dealt with. As with the earlier film I find I had a good time taking the journey, but the ending left me wondering if that was all.
Worth a look but I'm not sure it'll hang with you.
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