Product Overview
Writer/director Vivian Qu positions us as witnesses to a series of unfolding acts of complicity, larger society coaxing individuals – women – to stay silent lest they threaten their own safety by speaking out. Simran Hans unpacks the damaging power plays premised on gender, beauty and sex depicted in this harrowing Chinese film.
Additional keywords:
Asian cinema, China, feminism, misogyny, sexism, subjugation, sexual abuse, gender, gendered violence, neo-noir.
