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Tag Archives: violence
Movies I’m Watching:Straw Dogs
Violence, in most movies, is pretty standard—you get shot in the face by Scarface, your neck broken by Steven Seagall, or eaten alive by sharks. How many time have you seen a man thrash about as he is nearly decapitated … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Edward Yang’s Terrorizers (恐怖分子）
《恐怖分子》影评：杨德昌的手术刀-搜狐娱乐 via kwout Edward Yang is, by any measure, a master of the cinema. Like his other films from this era (late 1980s and early 1990s), Terrorizers is a merciless dissection of the lives of the Taiwanese urban middle-class. I’ve … Continue reading
Notice to Chinese petitioners: if you fight the law, the law will win.
徐贲：善待底层民情_网易新闻中心 via kwout These two pictures, from Hunan province, have been making the rounds on the internet because of what it says on the banners: the first one says “谁不依法信访就打击谁” which means “whoever unlawfully petitions the government will be attacked” … Continue reading
The troubles in Weng’an and Jiang Jie He village: gangs, dams, mines, gambling, death
I was reading Southern Weekend’s investigation into the Weng’an region: the common wisdom now is that the problems didn’t begin or end with the June 28 incident, but that the latter was merely what happened when long simmering problems reached … Continue reading
Movies I’ve Watched: In Bruges
In Bruges Movie Reviews, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes If you take a cursory look at what the people on Rotten Tomatoes are saying you’d find htat most people have a generally positive take on this film, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan … Continue reading
Only in China do you do autopsies in front of the house of the deceased…
Li Shufen, the girl whose mysterious and contested death was the cause of the Weng’an incident of June 28, has had yet another autopsy performed on her corpse, this time in front of her house where naturally, as is the … Continue reading
Three teenagers involved in Weng’an incident surface
These three peoplea female surnamed Wang, a man called Chen Guangquan and a man called Liu Yanchaowere there when Liu Shufen, the girl that died, was supposedly trying to jump off a bridge. If you’ve been following the news you … Continue reading