It's my first review on IMDb, because I was riled by cheeky Chinese media. For the sake of their own investment movie "shi yue wei chen", they criticized "San Qiang" was dirty, depraved and evil rubbish. It's ridiculous. Although wrapped in absurd comedy, the movie is serious and tragedy fable in essence. As we know, the movie is based from Coen Brother's movie "Blood Simple", Director Zhang enriched the plot and adjusted the role's character, which made the story more compact and delicate, but the theme "Sometimes seeing is believing maybe wrong" was kept. As stand-by, we know the whole process; As the party, they were all treated as the experiment objectives. I appreciated the details of this movies, I wish my explanation could help the views to understand the story better:
1.Why the wife of boss only accepted the quoted price of 3 Guan for the gun not 4 or more? It just took the boss 3 Guan and 800 wen to buy his wife, the wife could not admit the value of the gun is higher than herself, so she only offered 3 Guan.
2.Please pay attention to the bell over the cashbox, which was touched twice by the killer and counterjumper. Both of them were dead at last. The bell reminds me of the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls
3.Some people said they could not understand why the killer used arrow not falchion to kill Li Si. One side the arrow will be more secluded than falchion, on the other hand, as Chinese proverb goes "It is easy to dodge a gun thrust in the open , but difficult to guard against an arrow shot from hiding."
4."15 guan" which is not only a figure the killer quoted, but also honor to Chinese traditional opera"15 Guan", which is a miserable tragedy.
Gernerally speaking, the movie is full of symbolistic things. If you are immersed in the movie, you would be find more fun.
The visual effect of the movie is stunning and created a absurd drama world. I was impressed by the amazing feeling and become a fan of director.
Perhaps the movie is not perfect, but it is so precious for an old man of good reputation to try a new style at his 60s', so I gave it 10/10.
1.Why the wife of boss only accepted the quoted price of 3 Guan for the gun not 4 or more? It just took the boss 3 Guan and 800 wen to buy his wife, the wife could not admit the value of the gun is higher than herself, so she only offered 3 Guan.
2.Please pay attention to the bell over the cashbox, which was touched twice by the killer and counterjumper. Both of them were dead at last. The bell reminds me of the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls
3.Some people said they could not understand why the killer used arrow not falchion to kill Li Si. One side the arrow will be more secluded than falchion, on the other hand, as Chinese proverb goes "It is easy to dodge a gun thrust in the open , but difficult to guard against an arrow shot from hiding."
4."15 guan" which is not only a figure the killer quoted, but also honor to Chinese traditional opera"15 Guan", which is a miserable tragedy.
Gernerally speaking, the movie is full of symbolistic things. If you are immersed in the movie, you would be find more fun.
The visual effect of the movie is stunning and created a absurd drama world. I was impressed by the amazing feeling and become a fan of director.
Perhaps the movie is not perfect, but it is so precious for an old man of good reputation to try a new style at his 60s', so I gave it 10/10.