Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.
Direction
Ning Hao turns the Gobi into a character that wants everyone dead.
Cinematography
Endless yellow hellscapes that make you thirsty just watching.
Writing
Every character is the worst version of themselves. Delicious.
Director
Ning Hao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ning Hao had to reshoot the ending twice to satisfy Chinese censors, who apparently believe crime must never pay—even in a film where everyone is criminal.
The film sat on the shelf for three years due to censorship battles, becoming a legendary 'lost' movie before its 2013 release finally let audiences see what the government was so scared of.
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