Devils on the Doorstep is set in a small dusty Northern China village during Japanese occupation, at the end of WWII. The director is Jiang Wen, who is banned from directing any movies for seven years (till 2007) by the Chinese government, because he took this film to Cannes voluntarily without obtaining the “proper” blessing from the authority. Regardless, it won Grand Jury Prize from Cannes in 2000.
Both M and V have seen it and both of them have urged me to see it, and told me it was dark but also humorous. Then again, it was not really dark humor. At the end of August, I finally saw it at M’s place. When the final credit started rolling, I was still emotionally trapped in the ending’s “dark humor”, M remarked sullenly, “The tragedy of China.”
【鬼子来了】2000佳片有约，全篇无一指责，却满纸皆是讽刺
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