Synopsis:
A young woman is kidnapped and sold to a villager in the mountains.
Review:
China, the present. College-educated Bai Xuemei (Lu Huang) is struggling to find work, so is delighted when a friend informs her of well-paid employment selling medicinal herbs. She travels from her home to another town, where an agent of the herb company provides transport to a remote mountainous village. The next day, Xuemei wakes up to find that she has been "sold" to be the bride for a fortyish bachelor whose parents have become increasingly worried about his inability to find a wife. Outraged and horrified, Xuemei immediately tries to flee - but soon realises that escape will be difficult, perhaps even impossible...
Four years ago, documentarian Li made a promising - if somewhat overpraised - fiction debut with Blind Shaft, a stark indictment of safety-standards in rural Chinese coal-mines. "The film is so-so as a con-artist thriller," [I noted at the time] "OK as a character-study morality-tale, but is most effective as a depressing expose of a society that seems to combine the very worst aspects of capitalism among communism's shattered remnants." Li now revisits similar thematic terrain with his follow-up, which again chronicles grim goings-on in China's rural backwaters. But Blind Mountain represents a major leap beyond Blind Shaft - one that catapults writer-director Li to the very front rank of his nation's impressive body of film-making talent.
It's on one level an absolutely cracking psychological thriller - a claustrophobic nightmare of confinement playing on universal fears. On another level, it's a piercingly specific portrait of a deeply dysfunctional society, one which will hopefully bring international attention to a particularly shocking practice which surely has no place in any modern nation worthy of the name.
Nearly all of the adults with whom Xuemei comes into contact seem to care about one thing only: money. Even when, in a fit of desperation, she slits her wrists, the rudimentary A+E department at the nearest "hospital" won't begin treatment until her "family" have handed over banknotes. "Barbaric" is the word Xuemei uses on more than one occasion to describe her new "relatives" and their fellow villagers, and using the most direct and simple means Li places the viewer four-square in the shoes of his hapless heroine.
He doesn't need to spell out the socio-economic background which has led to the villagers' shocking wife-buying activities: a single scene in which a baby girl is found drowned in the local pond is sufficient to point the finger of blame at the national one-child policy, or rather the way such a policy has inadvertently led to a country with a large excess of adult males - some of whom cross the line into inhumanity in their search for a spouse.
Blind Mountain is gripping from start to finish, often unbearably tense - and, on occasion, audacious in its touches of black humour - as we watch Xuemei in her various resourceful attempts to escape. Shot (in conventional, measured style) among some incongruously beautiful and spectacular terrain, it's an exercise in the deferment - perhaps an indefinite deferment - of hope, an analysis of human resilience in the face of seemingly overwhelming despair. And the superbly, shockingly abrupt ending will leave you reeling.
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Subtitles (sub): Chinese | English | (srt) Brazilian | English
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