Yibai Zhang - Mi guo aka Lost Indulgence (2008)

Yibai Zhang - Mi guo aka Lost Indulgence (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201637/ Language Mandarin Subtitles English and Chinese sub/idx http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/bozdvd/img807.jpg When a family man drives his taxi car into the Yangtze river and his body disappears, wife and teenager son are left to take care of an injured hooker that was riding the taxi at the time of the accident. The premise is strange for a western mind. I guess the Chinese culture has its traditional ways of dealing with tort. How the threesome interrelate is what the film is about. There are a few additional ancillary characters that are necessary for us to better understand the three principals, but the attention is on the latter. The gradually changing relations are finely observed. The son's increasing fixation on the hooker. The mother's loss of control of a son that is coming of age. The hooker's experienced observation of the people around her. It's slow placed but almost never boring. At the end, the so far moody treatment is upset by an attempt to resolve a minor mystery that by then had become superfluous. Poor idea. It would have been fine to leave it unresolved. The tightened narrative comes close to resorting to well-used formulas and breaking up its hard won spell. As we reach the closing scenes, the film regains its composure and only hints at a solution. The director calls his style "poetic realism". A style that feels a little bit self-indulgent -- to take a hint from the title -- but in the sure hands of the director, it pulls us in close to the life, thoughts and feelings of the characters. The gorgeous piano music composed for the film is a perfect accompaniment. The vocal piece apparently was an instant popular success in China a few years ago. This is a second in a series of three filmed in the same city along the Yangtze river. The first was called "Curiosity Kills the Cat". The third should be released by 2009. http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/little_gigabyte/1-1.png http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/little_gigabyte/2-1.png http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/little_gigabyte/3-1.png http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/little_gigabyte/4-1.png http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/little_gigabyte/5-1.png http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/little_gigabyte/6.png ~~~~~~ Mi guo.avi ~~~~~~ File Size (in bytes):...........................1,476,806,656 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................1:41:39 Frame Count:....................................146212 Frame Width (pixels):...........................704 Frame Height (pixels):..........................384 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.833 Frames Per Second:..............................23.976 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1736 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.268" --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec:....................................0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................192 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............CBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE'

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 lord_terabyte (2009-01-05)

If you are looking for really low quality you'll never go wrong with aXXo. But if you can tell the difference in a DVD and a U-tube video try me!

goedkopekees (2009-01-27)

Thank you, great movie.
Greetings from Flowerpower1946 in Holland.

 pastafari (2009-02-23)

beer and wine! that was an excellent comparison :)
anyway, great film. thanks for all your releases!