Review of Ci chu yu bi chu

This is by no way an easy film. It's slow, very slow, with shots that take their time, sometimes just focusing in nothing at all. There is very little dialogue and the whole thing it's uneventful. To most people would appear like a boring film, but that's exactly the point of it. Here Then shows us the lives of several young men and women in China. They are completely lost, their lifes are melted in a big and indiferent country. People who live in the villages have no chance of making a change in their lives. They are alienated, isolated, bored. For some, the only way to go up in the social scale is entering illegal businesses like prostitution. In this movie we see three aspects of that, the innocent girl who entered a risky business, the pimp and the customer. All is shown with no glamour but with the boredom of everyday, no happy or sad faces, just people. And like the woman in the end, there is dissatisfaction with life. Watch this movie only if you have patience and like very slow experimental films.