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jeff_v [ 7.0 ]
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This is a beautifully-lit film that takes place entirely indoors (largely at brothels in 1880s Shanghai); Hou creates a world of suffocating insularity in which the flower-girls (prostitutes) go through difficult machinations to secure their freedom. Nearly all the proper "action" takes place off-screen (for a movie dealing with prostitutes and set in a brothel, you barely get a sense that there's any fucking going on), and the film dwells in effects of the actions and the emotional states of their wake. Probably best viewed on the big screen where one's eye cannot overtake the frame (and subsequently disconnect oneself from the film).
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.7 |
| No. Ratings | : 2 | |
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