I watched this movie at Hawaii International Film Festival and one of the best movies I have seen this year. The story is about a naive young girl who was abducted and "sold" to a mountaineer village as bride and her struggle to escape. The village is located deep in the mountains, remote and isolated and like many such villages in china in reality, has been this way for thousands of years. The script is based on real stories (I remember reading about reports on such stories in the early 90's in China), and the movie is extremely realistic in its depiction of the village, the characters and the logics of its dramatic development. Like another commentator said, the movie depicts the oppression of women in China, mainly the remote parts of rural China. However, it is far-fetched to quickly infer that the Chinese government is also complicit with the crime. Women have been sold into households as breeding tools and slaves for thousands of years in China. In urban areas, because of the Chinese revolution and Westernization in recent years, the status of women has been dramatically improved. However, in the remote rural areas, the feudal traditions and values still persist. The tragedy of the movie is, in the end of movie, despite the police efforts, nothing - not the strong-wills of the main character, not the institutional/legal system of the establishment - was able to triumph over the out-dated rotten tradition.
Review of Blind Mountain
