{"id":162800,"date":"2013-09-15T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=162800"},"modified":"2013-09-19T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T21:50:14","slug":"filmmaker-jia-zhangke-gives-voice-acts-rage-todays-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/09\/filmmaker-jia-zhangke-gives-voice-acts-rage-todays-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Gives Voice to Acts of Rage in Today\u2019s China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/06\/china-works-to-control-coverage-of-bombings\/\">including<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/06\/xiamens-bus-arsonist-the-unlikely-martyr\/\">string<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/09\/guilin-school-blast-linked-migrant-worker\/\">bombings<\/a> and several <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/after-killing-sprees-beijing-bans-knife-sales\/\">knife<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/08\/knife-attack-kills-four-chengdu\/\">attacks<\/a>. Some attackers have been driven by despair at land seizures, <em>chengguan<\/em> brutality, <em>hukou<\/em> restrictions and other such issues: in these cases, the public&#8217;s response has often been marked by <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/airport-bomber-wins-praise-reinvestigation\/\">a surprising degree of sympathy for the perpetrators<\/a>, even those who have killed as many as dozens of innocent people. Such stories inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/14\/world\/asia\/filmmaker-giving-voice-to-acts-of-rage-in-todays-china.html?smid=tw-share\"><strong>Jia Zhangke&#8217;s forthcoming film <em>A Touch of Sin<\/em>, in which he grapples with violence in China and people&#8217;s attitudes towards it<\/strong><\/a>. From Edward Wong at The New York Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jia Zhangke, China\u2019s most prominent art house director, had been preparing to make his first big-budget martial arts film, set in dynastic China, when reality intruded in the form of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Mr. Jia discovered the world of Twitter-like microblogs, which many Chinese have been reading in recent years to get the unvarnished daily news and opinions that are all but absent from the state-run news media. He was bombarded with news from all corners of China, much of it tied to the crimes of corrupt officials or businesspeople: rape, land seizures, industrial pollution. In many of those cases, he said, frustrated ordinary Chinese had been provoked to commit acts of bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI slowly began to see the problem of individual violence in society,\u201d the soft-spoken Mr. Jia, 43, said one recent afternoon in his office in northwest Beijing. \u201cThere are many tragedies or societal problems in which people in the end rebel, resulting in a very big tragedy. So I began to pay more and more attention to this problem, because, frankly speaking, I feel like Chinese people do not really understand the problem of violence because society has never had a widespread discussion of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] \u201c[<em>A Touch of Sin<\/em>] seems to me a response to an emergency,\u201d comments Beijing-based film critic Shelly Kraicer. \u201cCertain things need to be said, and need to be said directly, clearly, to as large, and as activated, a Chinese audience as possible.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The film, which Jia says has been only lightly touched by the censors, is due for Chinese release in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of bombings and several knife attacks. 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