Blind Shaft

Blind Shaft

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Release Date

2/12/2003

Runtime

92 mins

Overview

Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.

Status

Released

Original Language

Chinese

Budget

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Revenue

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A bleak portrait of desperation and complicity in the Chinese mining underworld, following two men whose murderous scheme begins to unravel when conscience creeps in. The film moves with deliberate precision through a moral and physical descent.

Mood

BleakTenseMelancholicContemplative

Themes

CrimeCorruptionSurvival

Tone

Matter-of-fact

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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