No Man's Land

No Man's Land

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Release Date

12/3/2013

Runtime

118 mins

Overview

Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.

Status

Released

Original Language

Chinese

Budget

$2,320,000

Revenue

$41,807,000

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A lawyer's deceptively simple desert drive becomes a relentless descent into moral ambiguity and physical peril. The vast emptiness of western China becomes both landscape and character, trapping you in the consequences of a pyrrhic courtroom victory.

Mood

TenseMelancholicDread-soaked

Themes

JusticeSurvivalIsolationPower

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

DesaturatedNaturalisticLong takes

Structure

Road movie

Heads up

Graphic violence

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