This was just not as good as Blind Shaft. It was too much of the same thing, but without interesting characters and good dialogue. The preliminary situation was very rushed, making it kind of silly, and I didn't really understand what was going on, except that the dialogue was seeming a bit cheesy.... The cinematography was very good and real, and the overall situation was disturbing and interesting, but it dragged on, and in the end it just did not pay off. There was no resolution like there was in Blind Shaft. Here it just sort of ended, without the situation really being solved in any way. It was frustrating. There were also a number of shots that just seemed pointless, like a shot of the main character looking off into the distance for about a minute, then a cutaway... Okay? I get that she's thinking about stuff but I don't really want to spend my time watching her contemplate. Shots like that and one of the old lady doing the loom over and over just got annoying. I think they were supposed to express a feeling of hopelessness or something along those lines but really it just got frustrating having the plot not advance at all. Basically there is no story here, it's just , "Wouldn't it be terrible if you were kidnapped and sold to a small Chinese farm community that wouldn't let you go?" Yes, yes it would. But that's really all there is to this movie. It's an "isn't this a terrible situation to be in?" kind of thing and it drags on and on with no resolution at the end. I feel a documentary on the subject of human trafficking would be more fitting to the subject.
Review of Blind Mountain
