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...attempting to quell a simmering dispute between clans controlling two villages. A schoolyard brawl that had ended with a student's ear being hacked off had escalated into a local war. "I told the party secretary to stop this, but he was corrupt and didn't handle it," Liang says...
...bombs tore through her living room, blowing off her right leg and most of her face. The family dragged her coffin into the middle of the road to protest police inaction. Police forced Li Lan to bury her daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment for her daughter's killers; for that, she was detained for "refusing to accept ideological education," according to the warrant. She was arrested again for unfurling a banner in Tiananmen Square denouncing county officials. In the months that followed...
...heroes of Lanshan is Liang Bangming, who was elected three years ago to the county's People's Congress. Liang served as an infantryman during China's disastrous 1979 border war with Vietnam and carries two badges from his time there: a medal for valor and puckered scars where a bullet ripped through his abdomen. That war produced a mini-Vietnam complex: soldiers returned from fighting dismayed that their government had sent them unprepared to a conflict they could not win. Liang was a little different: he came back to his native Hunan province more patriotic than ever and took...
...Protected by his war record, Liang became a nuisance. He accused one county official of giving building contracts to family members, another of assigning jobs to his friends "like throwing bones to his dogs." He hung posters denouncing corruption on the town hall gate. Police warned him to stop; co-workers voted him onto Lanshan's 180-member People's Congress in early...
Silence can be deafening in Tsai Ming-liang's films. The award-winning Taiwanese director will often have a character simply walk through a park, with no dialogue at all. His movies don't explain, they make the audience work for meaning. Though critics sometimes accuse him of pointing a camera at nothing, he clearly knows how to create something from the void. What Time Is It There?, his seventh film, is a visual feast on love, death and loneliness...