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Release Date:
8 November 1997 (Japan) morePlot Keywords:
Surveillance
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Isolation
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Black Comedy
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Criminal
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Police
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations moreUser Comments:
Somewhere between engaging and insipid. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Gong Feng | ... | Ye Minzhu |
| Shan Jiang | ... | Bai Lin |
| Rujun Ten | ... | Tian Gongshun (as Rujun Teng) |
| Xiaotong Zhang | ... | Yang Gao |
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It's superficially a nice story, but "Surveillance" doesn't really show Huang Jianxin at his best. It falls awkwardly between his two unique styles - the overt political symbolism and criticism of his early movies, and the sardonic warmth of his later movies - and ends up being a rather flat movie which doesn't genuinely engage the audience.
Huang's wonderful eye for detail sets him above his Chinese contemporaries in almost all his movies: there are some really enjoyable scenes here, but neither the social observation nor the plot are really enough to sustain a whole film.