Every
crime has a victim and every criminal has a story of their own to tell. A Touch
of Sin is one of the most powerful of such crime stories I have seeing recently
and its directed by the well-known Chinese director Zhangke Jia. Zhangke is
famous for his style in powerful dramas that mostly speak of the
contemporary themes that surround the rise of Chinese economic boom and the
resulting cultural changes.
A
Touch of Sin is a collaborative of four different storylines that has minor
connections with each other (which remind me of the great Mexican production
Amores Perros-2000) that had the same style of story telling. There are more
than few main characters in this due to it’s nature of the plot and each story
has certain uniqueness’s and similarities to fathom. For me it’s hard to tell
which story is my favorite and which is not as I see a certain beauty in all of
them. As all the stories are based on some sort of a crime (large or minor) at
a certain point viewer comes to the realization of where it is heading.
Though
there is no hard hitting ending to this movie once it’s done the viewer will be
still living a trance. There is beautiful cinematography, acting and very
little of music and laughter going around. But I completely like the way it
flow at times wished that some stories has more. And truly this portray the cultural
and economical effects the modern China and its people are going through and
some of it may seems overwhelming.
Genre:
Crime| Drama
Director:
Zhangke Jia
Original
title: "Tian zhu ding"
Score:
4/5
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