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Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nü), Zhangke Jia (2018)

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Stephen Chow, “Kung Fu Hustle”. 2004.

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I am not Madame Bovary dir. by Xiaogang Feng

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A World Without Thieves (天下无贼) by Xiaogang Feng (冯小刚). 2004.

A World Without Thieves centers on a naive village boy who does not believe in the existence of thieves. As if returning home by train with all his savings hidden in his pocket in cash is not enough, he brazenly shouts out his earnings in a crowded street. While he soon becomes the target of many thieves, some are struck by his innocence, including a former thief who later would sacrifice everything for the boy’s belief. 

Through Xiaogang Feng’s unique appraoch, the film explores the theme of the fundamental human goodness while addressing humorously the issue of rampant thievery on public transport in Mainland China. While the film sets at the height of ridiculousness, it beckons the viewers to reconsider the preconceived attitude towards of the protagonist’s innocence: what has been lost when such innocence came to be registered as sheer naiveté?

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Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Directed by Stephen Chow, Cinematography by Hang-Sang Poon

“I realized then that good guys never win. I want to be bad. I want to be the killer!”

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Wo bu shi Pan Jin Lian (Xiaogang Feng, 2016)

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I am not Madame Bovary dir. by Xiaogang Feng

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Wo bu shi Pan Jin Lian (Xiaogang Feng, 2016)