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...themes-including subtle criticism of the government-have resonated with local audiences, earning some $1.8 million since its release in mid-February. That makes I Not Stupid the second-highest grossing local film of all-time behind 1997's Money No Enough and just ahead of 1999's Liang Po Po-The Movie, both starring and written by Jack Neo. For the past 12 years Neo's also found time to star in a highly rated comedy variety show, Top Fun, where he engages in the kind of gender-bending beloved by comics around the world. In Singapore...
...bury their dead. She met Lei Yuanpu; he says some of his 29-year-old son's killers were set free by police after paying a bribe of nearly a thousand dollars. The son's uninterred coffin rests on a flax-covered hillside overlooking Lanshan's valley. She met Liang Fuxiu, who says one of her husband's murderers bribed his way out of jail. The husband's coffin sits aboveground in a field behind the couple's home. Anonymous villagers began slipping notes under Li's door with stories of police corruption. Most common were complaints that police...
...Lanshan insist they've handled all their cases properly, including those of the victims in unburied coffins. "We're still looking for some suspects who were released for lack of evidence but they didn't bribe their way out," says police chief Tang. He offers a different explanation for Liang's activism: "He's angry that his veteran's benefits ran out, and when the government refused to give more he started making trouble." He paints Liang as a loudmouth who police have detained three times: first, for swiping police handcuffs and truncheons, then for swearing at officers he accused...
...Liang and Li now lead a grassroots movement, a hobby not recommended for the timorous. Li's son, a guard at a grammar school, fled Lanshan after hooligans beat him with metal bars. (Li suspects they were sent by the police.) According to Li, one local cop has warned that if she continues her activism, "he'll tear out my eyes. I told him when I'm dead, my family will carry on." Even as she spoke in her home with TIME, police dropped by her gate to ensure she hadn't gone to Beijing to protest at last week...
...impeachment vote is this week and it will probably fail. But that doesn't discourage Li or Liang. "I'll keep fighting," says Liang, "because that's what old soldiers do." And until a little more justice comes the way of the families of Lanshan, the dead won't rest...