
China, the 1990s. In villages where female babies are drowned, there are few young women to marry the men and bear more sons. Families buy wives - girls lured from the city. Bai finishes college and accepts a job in a remote mountain village harvesting herbs. It's a ruse: she's sold to a peasant family. She's indignant; the parents hold her so the son can rape her. She tries to run away; she's beaten. Other women kidnapped a few years before, now with children, tell her to co... (Full plot summary below)
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China, the 1990s. In villages where female babies are drowned, there are few young women to marry the men and bear more sons. Families buy wives - girls lured from the city. Bai finishes college and accepts a job in a remote mountain village harvesting herbs. It's a ruse: she's sold to a peasant family. She's indignant; the parents hold her so the son can rape her. She tries to run away; she's beaten. Other women kidnapped a few years before, now with children, tell her to comply. She continues to try to escape. She writes to her father, smuggling letters to the mailman. She obtains a bit of money. The village is without pity, except for the teacher. Can he help her? Anger mounts.
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| Filmcritic.comChris CabinColored fully within the lines and with scant few moments of fascination |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanBlind Mountain, the second film from fledgling Chinese filmmaker Li Yang, demonstrates many of the same qualities that made his first, Blind Shaft, one of the most promising directorial debuts of recent years. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisBlind Mountain is a reminder that art sometimes keeps the truth alive far better than the news. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoA stinging and frightening indictment of mainland China. |
| Chicago TribuneTasha RobinsonLi’s story is lean and economical, but deeply harrowing, as Xuemei--sympathetically played by debuting performer Huang Lu, the only classically trained actor in a cast of non-professionals--clings to her courage and tries again and again to escape. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansLi's spare script works well with his choice to employ non-actors. |
| Reverse ShotLeo GoldsmithWith its complex (and, at times, deeply problematic) intersection of an educated outsider with the stubborn realities of rural life, Blind Mountain explicitly harkens back to those classic works from the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, like Yellow |
| Boxoffice MagazineEd ScheidBlind Mountain becomes a tense struggle of would-be escape. |
| User ReviewJoe LThis film is prohibited in PRC. It's really reflect part of the negative part of Chinese. Human Trafikking is common in PRC. Xue Mei is lucky since she's only become other's wife. Many children are beaten as disabled and become beggar. Some even become prostitute. I have heard this from news. |
| User ReviewDimitris SSecond part of an unofficial trilogy by Yang Li,the shadowy prelude is moving into a lavishing tale of filthy spiritual tone!Should I repeat that?Better watch this exploding torture yourselves,the torment of unfair treatment,aye,where the mountains fear to roar.. |