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Blind Shaft

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english title Blind Shaft
original title 盲井
aka Mang Jing
french titleBlind Shaft
year2003
countryChina
Germany


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director LI Yang - 李杨
actor LI Yi XiangSong Jinming
WANG BaoqiangYuan Fengming
WANG ShuangbaoTang Zhaoyang
AI Jing - 艾敬Xiao Hong
producer LI Yang - 李杨
scriptwriter LI Yang - 李杨
editor LI Yang - 李杨
cinematographer LIU Yonghong


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genresdrama
crime
duration1H32


synopsis

Blind Shaft presents a hugely ironic vision of the Mainland's inexorable thrust towards "socialist" advancement with capitalistic characteristics. Two older miners with murder in their hearts entice a young boy into becoming a casual labourer inside a mineshaft. The first half hour of the film is a stunning introduction into the dark side of China's industrialization programme - essentially an expose of the country's reliance on and exploitation of migrant labourers (and management's callous indifference to the plight of workers in the country's mining industry) - leading to a totally unexpected twist ending that can only boost the credential of director-screenwriter Li Yang.

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