Bao Huo Lao Essays Spring Volume 2004: Essays

Author: Han Zhongliang
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: They possess similar qualities—perceptive, profound, and vicious. Their commonality lies in their preference for choosing small, often overlooked angles. The content of this book: The director shot many close-ups of his face. He didn’t frown, cry, or beat his chest, but everyone saw the pain, the injustice. What was portrayed was a kind of timidity and helplessness in a foreign land, but more so, it was a sense of inferiority when facing developed countries, and a profound shame when thinking of one’s homeland. At the end of the film, there’s a Chinese beggar who seems mad but isn’t. As he’s dragged out of a bar in the rain, he shouts, “In this goddamn place, we are nothing but oxen, horses, beasts!”