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Blind Mountain

2007 · 95 min

A suffocating, quietly devastating descent into helplessness that grinds you down with its cold realism and unrelenting despair.

Overview
Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • survival
  • crime
  • power
  • corruption
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror5
Humour0
Realism9
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Li Yang
Written by
Li Yang
Starring
Huang Lu, Yang Youan, Zhang Yuling, He Yunle, Jia Yingao
Cinematography
Jong Lin
Runtime
95 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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