Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
china, violence, injustice, dehumanization, return home, new year's eve, actual animal killed, killing spree, embezzlement, hit with a shovel, fireworks, prostitute, pocket knife, train station, beating, jealous wife, extramarital affair, accountant, violence against women, sauna
It's that quality of directness, of purpose -- here particularly fierce purpose -- that gives Jia's plays with fiction and nonfiction both their vigour and their political perceptiveness and bite.
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