long dong's bootleg DVD review: Lost In Beijing

[justashooter 430]

Banned by the Beijing government moments after it's release, this film exposes the reality of corruption, greed, avarice, and wanton disregard for morality endemic in the Chinese life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949489/

In this film, a girl working at a foot massage parlour is raped while drunk by the owner of the shop. This character in other scenes frequents prostitutes and bribes corrupt officials. The girl's husband, a common labourer employed as a high rise window washer, sees the event and is justifiably outraged. In typical Chinese fashion, this crime becomes a point of negotiation over cash penalty. The stakes get higher when the girl realises she is pregnant, ad can't tell which man is the father.

The husband, dreaming of wealth in his shabby one room apartment, offers the parlour owner a deal. If the child is determined at birth by testing to be his, he will receive a small compensation. If the child is determined to be of the parlour owner, he will pay a large compensation to the husband and take the child.

The lives of the couple, the rapist, and his coldhearted infertile wife become entwined over the following months in moments sometimes touching, and sometimes brutal. Both men are shown to be self serving and calculating, while their wives are depicted as victims, as is often the case in today's China. In the end this calculating betrayal destroys all of their relationships.

Living in China these past 4 years, I have seen enough to know that the film is a fair depiction of Chinese life, in which men who can afford to have no morals, and women have little standing. I have also seen the coldness in relationship that is the natural result. Beijing didn't ban this film for it's sexuality, rather for it's accurate depiction of the poor moral structure of China's people.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Wait...he's Chinese and his name is Long Dong?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Anyone who laughs at the image of a two year old getting drunk off their ####, has no business talking about "morality".

[justashooter 430]

Wait...he's Chinese and his name is Long Dong?

that's my chinese name. every lao wai that lives in china has to have a chinese name. some college girls gave it to me one morning. they thought it was funny, as it translates into "the dragon understands" (i was born in year of dragon), or "a lazy man", depending on how you intone it.

tian gao, huang di yuan...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Wait...he's Chinese and his name is Long Dong?

that's my chinese name. every lao wai that lives in china has to have a chinese name. some college girls gave it to me one morning. they thought it was funny, as it translates into "the dragon understands" (i was born in year of dragon), or "a lazy man", depending on how you intone it.

tian gao, huang di yuan...

Did they understand it as a double entendre?

[justashooter 430]

Wait...he's Chinese and his name is Long Dong?

that's my chinese name. every lao wai that lives in china has to have a chinese name. some college girls gave it to me one morning. they thought it was funny, as it translates into "the dragon understands" (i was born in year of dragon), or "a lazy man", depending on how you intone it.

tian gao, huang di yuan...

Did they understand it as a double entendre?

there was 3 of them, so i suppose you could call it a triple entendre. yes, they all spoke english.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Wait...he's Chinese and his name is Long Dong?

that's my chinese name. every lao wai that lives in china has to have a chinese name. some college girls gave it to me one morning. they thought it was funny, as it translates into "the dragon understands" (i was born in year of dragon), or "a lazy man", depending on how you intone it.

tian gao, huang di yuan...

Did they understand it as a double entendre?

there was 3 of them, so i suppose you could call it a triple entendre. yes, they all spoke english.

You sly devil.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Wait...he's Chinese and his name is Long Dong?

that's my chinese name. every lao wai that lives in china has to have a chinese name. some college girls gave it to me one morning. they thought it was funny, as it translates into "the dragon understands" (i was born in year of dragon), or "a lazy man", depending on how you intone it.

tian gao, huang di yuan...

Did they understand it as a double entendre?

I think he's talking out of his brown eye...

[Peikko 1,575]

Perhaps we should all imports our long lost posts from unrelated message boards? Imagine what fun we could have? What a trip shooter is on, again...I do sense a theme with his screen names

Perhaps just import, rather than imports

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

amazing, shooter posts and the personal attacks find him like he's a magnet.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

amazing, shooter posts and the personal attacks find him like he's a magnet.

Charles, you'd pack a much harder punch if you weren't selective with your outrage.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

amazing, shooter posts and the personal attacks find him like he's a magnet.

Charles, you'd pack a much harder punch if you weren't selective with your outrage.

you may have a point if you weren't selective in your reading.

and btw, no outrage on my part, just an observation.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

you may have a point if you weren't selective in your reading.

That doesn't even make sense.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

you may have a point if you weren't selective in your reading.

That doesn't even make sense.

[TotalTommyTerror 0]

Banned by the Beijing government moments after it's release, this film exposes the reality of corruption, greed, avarice, and wanton disregard for morality endemic in the Chinese life.

45 minutes in china exposes the reality of corruption, greed, avarice, and wanton disregard for morality...

I've been here 2 years, and yeah, I'd agree, from the sound of it, that film's just telling it like it is. (And the chinese hate that.)

I think I'll try and find it.