Mystery (2012) (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version) DVD Region 3
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Hao Lei (Summer Palace), Qin Hao (Spring Fever) and award-winning newcomer Qi Xi star in the dark, beguiling drama about infidelity, corruption and violence in modern China. Set in Wuhan, Mystery opens with the scene of a woman being run over on a rainy mountainside road by wealthy, reckless youth. The accident is the culmination of another gradually revealed dispute: a middle-class family's derailing after the wife discovers her husband has a string of mistresses on the side.
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Product Title: | Mystery (2012) (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version) 浮城謎事 (DVD) (台灣版) 浮城谜事 (DVD) (台湾版) 浮城謎事 (DVD) (台湾版) Mystery (2012) (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version) |
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Artist Name(s): | Hao Lei (Actor) | Qin Hao (Actor) | Qi Xi (Actor) 郝蕾 (Actor) | 秦昊 (Actor) | 齊溪 (Actor) 郝蕾 (Actor) | 秦昊 (Actor) | 齐溪 (Actor) 郝蕾 (ハオ・レイ) (Actor) | 秦昊(チン・ハオ) (Actor) | チー・シー (Actor) Hao Lei (Actor) | Qin Hao (Actor) | Qi Xi (Actor) |
Director: | Lou Ye 婁燁 娄烨 婁燁(ロウ・イエ) Lou Ye |
Release Date: | 2013-08-27 |
Language: | Mandarin |
Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
Place of Origin: | Taiwan |
Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
Aspect Ratio: | 1.78 : 1 |
Sound Information: | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Disc Format(s): | DVD |
Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
Duration: | 98 (mins) |
Publisher: | Jia Shiun |
Package Weight: | 115 (g) |
Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1033965757 |
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The big mystery about Mystery is how SARFT let this one through. Director Lou Ye returns from a 5-year filmmaking ban in China (during which he made the French-produced Love and Bruises) with this drama-thriller about a bunch of people who are A) bad, or B) not that bad but still do bad things. And curiously, not everyone gets punished. No stranger to SARFT's stringent guidelines, Lou Ye cleverly diverts attention from many potentially taboo subjects in Mystery, hiding some content and only elliptically addressing others. Then again, Mystery alludes to or features so much uncomfortable stuff – adultery, murder, corruption, homosexuality, sexual violence – that it's easy to conclude the whole thing is a big fat middle finger directed at SARFT. But really, China's filmmaking politics are so byzantine, we shouldn't even try to decipher them. Forget it, Jake – it's China[town]. Putting politics briefly aside, Mystery is more of a drama than an actual mystery, its seemingly showy plot twists ultimately giving way to acute emotion. Lou Ye constructs in immersive and realistic style the story of Lu Jie (Hao Lei), whose marriage to Yongzhao (Qin Hao) is upended when she spies him walking into a hotel with student Xiaomin (Chang Fangyan). The discovery was accidental: Lu Jie was accompanying new friend Sang Qi (Qi Xi) to talk about Sang Qi's unfaithful husband when Yongzhao and Xiaomin just happen to stroll by. However, this is all in the past. Mystery opens in media res as an irresponsible young driver (Zhao Bingrui) joyrides in the rain and promptly sends a poor pedestrian flying. That pedestrian: Xiaomin, and her role in this domestic drama is gradually revealed by Lu Jie and also cop Mingsong (Zu Feng), whose investigation is rather half-hearted for a supposed justice-seeking law enforcement individual. Mingsong's reticence is hardly a plot point, but it implies darker things like corruption or the weary acceptance that China's murky dealings are simply "the way things are." Lou Ye's shaky hand-held cam, natural locations and unglamorous production equate Mystery with reality, and indeed the events presented seem like they could happen – though really, not to the level of convenience presented. Many coincidences are easily justified but some – like the fact that Mingsong knows Xiaomin's ex-boyfriend Qin Feng (Zhu Yawen) – are screenwriting shortcuts. Mystery leans towards lurid melodrama with its many plot twists, but Lou's grounded style brings greater focus to the characters and their situations. With mostly performances as our guide, it's sometimes hard to see what characters will do, and that opacity makes tension very strong. What are the people surrounding us really capable of? That mystery is likely the one the film's title alludes to. Acting is where the film really shines, particularly between Hao Lei and Qi Xi. Hao gets material fit for an award-baiting melodrama explosion, but opts for intense, simmering emotion rather than indignant histrionics. Qi Xi has arguably a tougher job, as Sang Qi is slowly revealed to be a compromised woman who challenges audience sympathy. The two actresses play off one another superbly, and manage to take their characters' complex relationship to unexpected places. Qin Hao suffers by comparison, as his Yongzhao seems an unrealistically charismatic playboy that doesn't fully convince. Still, damaged people like these – that is, people who are delusional, callously cruel and blindly self-destructive – do exist, and Lou Ye examines them with unflinching and also fascinating verve. In essentially the fourth lead, Zu Feng brings a lived-in gravity, though his cop character never really surpasses its obvious narrative function. Mystery would be better if it could justify its relentless pessimism. Redemption for the film's surfeit of unlikable characters isn't necessary, but some acknowledgement or understanding of the film's point-of-view might have pushed it to a higher level. The film may have worked better as a tragicomedy, where the ironic distance between the audience and the screen would have provided something tangible besides spiraling nihilism. As is, what Lou Ye has constructed is something compelling, immersive and ultimately inconclusive. Perhaps this lack of clarity is intentional, as an overt opinion on the social ills and human ugliness presented might have been frowned upon. But that's the game you have to play in China. If Lou Ye was being inscrutably coy, then good on him: he made a provocative and intelligent film in a film industry that usually inhibits such things. In getting this much onscreen, Mystery is an accomplishment. by Kozo - LoveHKFilm.com |
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