Product Details

• Actors: Huang Lu, Yang Youan
• Directors: Li Yang
• Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Cantonese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
• DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001H5ZQHY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,347 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Blind Mountain" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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BLIND MOUNTAIN - DVD Movie

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-see!, November 27, 2008

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Guo Wu - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blind Mountain (DVD)

Watching this film will be a challenge because of its candid portral of poverty, desire,intrigue,and ignorance, and it shows an aspect of contemporary Chinese life that you will never see in the films of Zhang Yimou. Yes. This is Li Yang,a director who captures the darkest side of China and expose it,but here you can still see that people are not born evil even when are doing evil things...go watch it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable film, October 21, 2008

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Phillip Royer "sitenoise" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blind Mountain (DVD)

Bai Xuemei, recently graduated from college, is unwittingly sold, not by her family but by her friends, to a villager deep in the bowels of mountainous rural China ... in the 1990s! This is not a documentary. It's almost a typical horror film pacing through a Texas Chainsaw Massacre style suffocating terror without any blood, but there's psychological and physical abuse, including rape--father and mother hold Bai Xuemei down while her purchaser rapes her. Ouch!

China is a vast expanse and this film's cinematography captures that space wonderfully. Bai Xuemei is so far up in the mountains it is simply too far away for her to run to safety.

Lu Huang who plays Bai Xuemei is the only professional actor in the film. The rest of the cast, from the shopkeeper to the Village Chief, are actual villagers. When the police arrive to make a rescue and the whole village gangs up on them demanding the girl repay the 7,000 they paid for her if she is to return home, it rings with a frightening authenticity. I watched this film feeling that with 5 minutes left to go she would be rescued despite everything suggesting otherwise.

It's not that kind of film. Blind Mountain is an essay on the collision of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. It's not pedantic, nor is it belittling to the realities of the culture at its source, but it's hard not to see it that way, especially through 21st-century, western eyes. The film does a remarkable job of showing that it's not a matter of simply enforcing contemporary law. It's much deeper and difficult than that.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars disturbing, September 18, 2010

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steven roy (Seattle United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blind Mountain (DVD)

This movie is one of the most disturbing movie's I've ever seen.
Sort of like some of the Gong Li films but not with her.
It is worth seeing but very hard to imagine that women can be treated like this.