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A Touch Of Sin (2013/Kino Lorber Blu-ray)


Picture: B Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: B+



In a world of sin, it is true... that no good deed goes unpunished. There are no happily endings, no happily ever afters, there is only who you can take advantage of. Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin (2013) follows the story of 4 people who live in such a world. An angry miner, a wandering drifter, a female receptionist, and young man who works in a sweat shop.


The miner is angry at all the hollow promises, bribes and corruption in his village and how no else is stepping up against the injustice and decides to take a rifle and the law into his own hands. The drifter is man with a gun, robbing and killing all whom he deems as parasites of society... and he enjoys it. The receptionist is a woman who works in a sauna and having an affair with a married man, but is treated like a whore and when pushed beyond her limits and she finally cracks. The story of the young man is who runs away after causing an accident, hopping from different jobs he learns that is no easy street and ends up only coming full circle back to the same job he hated.


This film shows a world of the fallen, those whom society has forgotten, who have been cheated or live by cheating others ...a world where the only way to get ahead in life is to take by force or by unfair means. It has a very macabre karma, and shows what happens to the human nature/spirit when there idealism is taken away. No matter how hard a person try to change it makes no difference... the only thing to do is join the madness.


The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image was shot on an Arri Alexa HD camera with Arriscope and Master Scope lenses looking pretty good, though one wonders if 35mm might have pulled off an even better image while the DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix is not as strong or consistent as the image, but still decent enough. There are no extras.



- Ricky Chiang


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