Bai Xuemei (Huang Lu) has just graduated in college and can not find a job position. She meets a girl that introduces her to Manager Wu and she is hired to sell medicine herbs in a village in a remote mountain. Bai drinks a glass of water and when she awakes, she leans that she her documents have been stolen and she had been sold as a wife to Huang Degui, the son of a peasant family. Bai Xuemei tries to escape and she is raped and brutally beaten by Degui. She befriends Degui's cousin and local teacher Decheng that promises to help her to escape, but after having sex with her, Decheng is expelled from the village and leaves Bai Xuemei alone. She finds sympathy with two other women that have been also kidnapped a couple of years before and she starts giving classes to children. She unsuccessfully attempts to send letters to her family but the postman delivers all her letters to Degui. Bai Xuemei prostitutes with the local grocer and gets some money. When one of her student offers to send the letter to her, sooner her father appears in the village with two policemen to rescue Bai Xuemei. But the location is in a remote area and she is not secure yet.
"Mang Shan" is the story of a young Chinese woman that is lured, abducted and sold to be the wife of a man in an unbelievable society in the end of the Twentieth Century. It is well-known that in China, the families are allowed to have only one child per family and in many areas, female babies are drowned since the baby boy is more valuable to their primitive families. However, I am stunned with the ignorance of this corrupt society, where everyone everywhere needs to bribe to get the services, even medical assistance. Based on the IMDb credits, it seems that only the awesome Huang Lu is a professional actress and the cast is composed by mountain villagers, making the film even more realistic. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Montanha Cega" ("Blind Mountain")
"Mang Shan" is the story of a young Chinese woman that is lured, abducted and sold to be the wife of a man in an unbelievable society in the end of the Twentieth Century. It is well-known that in China, the families are allowed to have only one child per family and in many areas, female babies are drowned since the baby boy is more valuable to their primitive families. However, I am stunned with the ignorance of this corrupt society, where everyone everywhere needs to bribe to get the services, even medical assistance. Based on the IMDb credits, it seems that only the awesome Huang Lu is a professional actress and the cast is composed by mountain villagers, making the film even more realistic. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Montanha Cega" ("Blind Mountain")