Blind Mountain
Posted November 12, 2008 at 8:09 pm
“Blind Mountain” is the story of Bai Xuemei (Huang Lu), a college-educated girl in early-1990s China, who is tricked into traveling into the countryside, drugged and then sold to be the wife of a villager. When she wakes up, she
finds herself taken hostage by a family in the village, as the wife of their son.
The rest of the film follows Xuemei as she deals with her new “marriage,” including her rape by her “husband.” The film also chronicles her various attempts to escape her fate as a purchased wife in a countryside village and the various alliances she makes—in-cluding a schoolteacher, one of her “nephews” and one of her fellow bought wives.
Overall, it’s a hard-hitting, emotional view of human trafficking in China. The movie, with no background music, looks and feels a lot like a documentary: Each shot brings the viewers in and exposes them to a side of China not often seen. “Blind Mountain” is ex-tremely powerful and engaging, but that doesn’t mean that it’s flawless. At times, it seems a little jumpy and doesn’t always explain changes in time, making the plot difficult to follow.
While “Blind Mountain” makes a deliberate attempt to draw on the viewers’ emotional response to Xuemei’s kidnapping and purchase, the film does so with fantastic acting, an intriguing plotline and a great message.
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