Credited cast: | |||
Wu Jiang | ... | Dahai | |
Baoqiang Wang | ... | Zhou San | |
Tao Zhao | ... | Xiao Yu | |
Lanshan Luo | ... | Xiao Hui | |
Jia-yi Zhang | ... | Zhang Youliang | |
Meng Li | ... | (as Vivien Li) | |
Lu Liu | ... | (Guest appearance) | |
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Dong Han | ... | (Guest appearance) |
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Hongwei Wang | ... | (Guest appearance) |
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Qiang Wang | ... | (Guest appearance) |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Jiangcai Bai | ||
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Ke Chen | ||
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Weifen Chen | ||
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Yang Chen | ||
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Yulin Deng |
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
after finally watching A Touch Of Sin this evening at ACMI with some friends, it's left me stuck in 2 worlds - missing Jia Zhang-Ke's meditative & lyrical work of the past & liking the new approach to these social wrongs in a more brutal / violent / cynical manner...
first thoughts were quite similar to when i watched another master film maker Kim Ki-Duk's "Pieta" which after further digestion, thought & reading became my fave film of 2013 - both films show violence in a heavy way but still portray it in a meditative & profound manner, using symbolic moments to remind the audience about these issues...
in hindsight i really like this film and where Jia is going with his approach... considering this is a narrative driven film over his powerful and thought provoking documentaries, all the killings were based on real events the director read in blogs... the film is a vessel to show these separate events as one about alienation, the varying classes in china & corruption / political flaws...
here's a good article from Slant which covers a lot of how i feel towards the films - 8/10
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/a-touch-of-sin