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The Stepchild
Chinese Cyber Thriller PK.COM Baffles. But In A Good Way.
Posted by Todd Brown at 9:38am.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Asia.
I have no idea what I just watched. Absolutely none. Zip. But, you know, sometimes that’s a good thing and I think this may be one of those times. Sponsored by Chinese web-portal Sina.com, PK.com is the sophomore film from Xiao Jiang, the acclaimed film maker whose debut Electric Shadows screened in both Toronto and Rotterdam. The film stars Jaycee Chan - who continues to make interesting choices in an ongoing bid to distance himself from his father’s image - and Taiwan’s Chen Bo-lin in a mystery that revolves around questions of identity and mysterious disappearances. The finished feature will need to make more sense than the trailer does but the trailer is very compelling in it’s strangeness and just beautiful to look at. You’ll find it embedded in the Twitch Player below the break, take a look and see what you can make of it ...
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jeremyschulz 03/08/2008 @ 3:18pm
The opening shot of the man with the scars on his back is lifted from a Joel-Peter Witkin photograph entitled “Woman Once a Bird,” which is itself an homage to Man Ray’s “Le Violon d’Ingres.” The first half of the trailer reminds me of Jacob’s Ladder (which also lifted a Witkin photo - “Leo: The Atrocity Series”) mixed with some Abre los Ojos/Vanilla Sky. After that, I got nuthin.
Weird for weird’s sake? Okay in my book.
Ichi-The-Killer 03/08/2008 @ 10:04pm
Looked good until Bo Lin started flaling his arms around.