Word: luo
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...Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers...
...often does, in the form of a beautiful girl: a local seamstress, played by rising mainland starlet Zhou Xun. Zhou lights up the screen like a fistful of fireworks. The boys don't have a chance against her charm, by turns girlish and devilish. The darkly handsome Luo, ever the leader, stakes his claim first, his brooding eyes tracing Zhou with a hunger neither quite comprehends at first. Introverted Ma plays the third wheel but struggles to suppress his growing feelings for the seamstress...
...finding a gorgeous girl in a remote mountain village weren't miracle enough, the boys make an even more amazing discovery: a hidden cache of translated foreign novels by Dostoyevsky, Rousseau and, of course, Balzac. The effect the writings have on Luo and Ma is revolutionary. They undergo an intellectual and romantic awakening that stokes the inevitable sexual one. Soon the boys are smoking like Continental philosophers and making grand statements about love and human nature; in other words, they begin behaving like the college freshmen they would have been were it not for the Cultural Revolution. (Good thing they...
...Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China, over the past year police in cities around the country ordered stepped-up repression of unofficial religious groups "to guarantee social and political stability during the opening of the congress." The leaked materials revealed that the Party Organization Department praised security chief Luo Gan for presiding over 15,000 executions a year in the past four years as part of the effort to keep the lid on social unrest...
...burden of the plot, derives from a volume of Balzac containing Ursule Mirouët wheedled out of the hidden cache of a fellow re-educatee in a nearby village. The book becomes as cherished as any work of Dickens in Waugh's A Handful of Dust. For when Luo reads and then retells the story to a dazzling but illiterate Chinese seamstress, she falls in idyllic love with both him and Balzac. Youthful passions reign, and the lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works...