synopsis
On New Year's Eve, an absurdly comedic tale of three families in a southern mountain village's courtyard over what to do with the body of a thief.
"A Thief is Dead
创作阐述
The core scene of the film is the courtyard house, which is like a miniature society, showing the intricate power relationship between father and son, love relationship, neighbor relationship, official and business relationship, etc. in a closed space. Because of the accidental death of the thief, the body has to be transported out of the side door of a family, thus affecting the relationship of several families in the courtyard, the grudges and feuds, love and hate between families change through the opening and closing of the side of each family, and the traditional clan relationship in the countryside gradually crumbles in the face of the relationship of the supremacy of interests in the modern society. The director grew up in a mountain village and is very familiar with the characters, details and customs of the village; it also provides a good guarantee for the creation of this film, which is spatially focused and has complex character relationships.
故事大纲
On New Year's Eve, a thief accidentally fell to his death in a courtyard in a small mountain village in Hunan province. There are four families in the courtyard. Uncle Sam in the north of the courtyard believes in feng shui, and believes that a person who dies horribly will be transported out of the front door, and must be transported out of one of the side doors in order to resolve the crisis. The courtyard has three side door, the courtyard south of the female neighbor and three uncle had an affair, uncle three favoritism to her; courtyard east of the neighbor had been in the three uncle's son's mine coal mining for many years, got pneumoconiosis, the two sides on the issue of compensation for the beam, the three uncles went to the negotiation at the time of the door ate the door. West of the courtyard is the ancestral home of the deputy mayor's family, which has long been collapsed and abandoned, and Uncle Sam, on balance, thinks that this is the only option for transporting the body. However, Uncle San's son is a businessman and believes that such an important neighbor should not be offended, so the corpse transportation matter is at an impasse, with feng shui and human feelings being the two sides of the coin. Xiao Jianzhong, a businessman who believes that money can solve all problems, decides to offer a reward of 100,000 dollars to the person who solves the corpse transportation dilemma. This move touched the villagers' nerves, have joined the "bounty" battle, and then staged a corpse theft, hiding the corpse, pretending to be a corpse, and even scramble for the corpse of the farce. Originally everyone disliked the corpse, but now everyone is fighting for the target; from the three families are reluctant to open the side door, to the family scramble to open the side door, in the process of wrestling for the body of the crowd, Uncle Sam and Qiaohong's affair is exposed, the real body mysteriously disappeared, and Uncle Sam found that he gradually lost control of everything. ......
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typology：
absurd comedy -
Director/Screenwriter：
Chen Mingwang
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moviemaker：
LEUNG MAN SUM