The Pain of Purity: Abuse and Collusion in Vivian Qu's 'Angels Wear White'

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.

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Asian cinema, China, feminism, misogyny, sexism, subjugation, sexual abuse, gender, gendered violence, neo-noir.