The Story of Qiu Ju
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Movie Reviews of The Story of Qiu Ju
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Summary: 5 Stars
Surprisingly humorous; rich scenes of China today (or at least in 1990). The villages still seem to be in the Middle Ages. There was lots of noodle eating. And a very strong female protagonist. This was the third of Zhang Yimou's films that I'd seen, "Ju Dou" and "Raise the Red Lantern" being the first two, and the latter is on my top 10 list of all time. This was more political, not as lush in color or sets, and a modern day time frame, but very worth-while all the same. Be sure and check out all his movies, for he is a director of note.Movie Review: Justice
Summary: 5 Stars
A woman's husband get kicked where it counts by an official. Thus begins a wives long trek for Justice. A truly great story of how she will only settle for not less than Justice. Gong Li plays the pregnant mother of the man violated. An excellent film by Zhang Yimou who makes nothing but great movies. Check out all his other movies. You won't be disappointed.Movie Review: The story of Qui Ju
Summary: 5 Stars
this is one of my favourite Gong Li films which I have never been able to find in Australia. So being able to buy it though Amazon has allowed me to enjoy this film years after I last saw it. It tells the story of a peasant woman in contempoaray China taking on the buracracy. It's great!!!Movie Review: Forget your prejudice
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a delight from start to finish.The basic review might put you off- don't let it! Everday life in China as never seen in the West. Beauraucracy gone mad. Oscar potential from Gong Li (can she do wrong?).
A five star cinema experience
Movie Review: Required viewing for law students
Summary: 4 Stars
This may be one of the best films ever made about the law, perfectly illustrating those first-year law school lessons that not every wrong amounts to a legal cause of action (i.e., merits a lawsuit) and that justice does not belong to the wronged individual, but to society as a whole. The law will always fail to satisy a personal sense of having been wronged. In this film, a woman feels slighted by an assault on her husband (a vicious kick in the nuts), and she spends the rest of the film pursuing "justice" in the form of an apology from the perpetrator, the local village administrator. The woman just happens to be Chinese, but the subsquent truths about the legal process are nigh universal. The village head is simply unwilling to acknowledge his fault, so various attempts to settle the dispute or find compromise are not enough to satisfy the woman, and she sets the wheels of legal procedure in motion, following them through to their ultimately unsatifsying conclusion as she travels to district and provincial capital cities. The resulting film, as an exercise in frustration, is as essential an addition to the "literature" of the law as Dickens' Bleak House or Trollope's Orley Farm, and should be on the curriculum of every law school. (And a final note: I have never before or since been as impressed by actress Gong Li, who commands the screen by allowing her usual glamourous presence to be utterly subsumed into the character of a pregnant peasant woman. That she still stands out in one crowd scene just by sheer force of her pesonality is a testament to a charisma that, I admit, eluded me in many of her other films.)