The Good Woman of Sichuan
charitably, a work by a young director whose obvious compositional ability is not yet accompanied by a clarity of vision or conceptual purpose. uncharitably, an imitation which does not understand why its models were effective, or that they do not remain effective when simply repeated in a new context. i dont think either of these are entirely true to the reality here, but i really cant shake the feeling part of why this is so closed-off and withholding is it was an easy way to cover up a lack of ideas. making specifically english-chinese subtitles an integral (rather than incidental) part of the text is a pretty good illustration of the limited horizon here 900