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"A Touch of Sin:" violence, gore, and action, all masterfully

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served up through four stories of people pushed to the brink by modern Chinese society.
Easily one of last year's best films, this is just available on Netflix.
If you, like me, have been a fan of director Zhang Ke Jia's earlier works, "Platform," "Unknown Pleasures," "Still Life," and "The World," you'll be shocked at how this "art film" guy has transformed himself from a sly filmmaker to the blood-soaked genre.
This isn't a good film with action--- it's a great one.
An attorney watches as his small town mine is transformed into the private company of a Gulfstream-flying robber baron; all his attempts to whistle blow are met with humor--- and then violence. What makes this first story---- and all of them are intriguing--- more interesting is that the protagonist bears a startling resemblance to real life artist and whistleblower Ai Weiwei.
I don't know why, but Chinese films aren't very popular on this forum: there are many masters of the form working today in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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