English title had given (Bresson's treasure) this prominent Jia Zhangke's iconic Chinese rural magical realism masterpiece a kind of tone of obsessional Heimlich in our hero Wang Hongwei, who graduated from the same film school as Jia Zhangke, but credited as a "non-professional actor", it's weird, but pretty rarefied.
I don't know how Jia Zhangke created the perfect grotesque atmosphere between the two estranged or intimate conversations. His bravura handle of trims of pickpocketing details, with the remaining of Xiao Wu's personal life is brilliant.
He is a bad, quotidian-stolen pickpocket, but he never lost his soul as a generous, wholehearted Valentine and a brother.
The shaking camera is aptly combined with the realistic setting and crew. The performance is divine, especially Wang Hongwei, he looks fun and mysterious, charismatic.
The blackout of the romantic scene is a bravura technique. Wang Hongwei ascends.