Much has been written about post-communism in Russia and China. But two recent films, Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, made in China in 2013, and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, made in Russia in 2014, reveal the social and political landscapes of these countries more precisely than anything I have seen in print.
纽约——艺术这面镜子往往最清晰地反映出我们所生存年代的现实。后共产主义俄罗斯和中国涌现出众多作品。但最近的两部电影：2013年中国拍摄的贾樟柯的《天注定》，以及2014年俄罗斯拍摄的安德烈·萨金塞夫的《利维坦》，比我所见过的任何印刷作品都更准确地揭示两国社会及政治的实际内容。