Blind Mountain Page #2

Synopsis: China, the 1990s. In villages where female babies are drowned, there are few young women to marry the men and bear more sons. Families buy wives - girls lured from the city. Bai finishes college and accepts a job in a remote mountain village harvesting herbs. It's a ruse: she's sold to a peasant family. She's indignant; the parents hold her so the son can rape her. She tries to run away; she's beaten. Other women kidnapped a few years before, now with children, tell her to comply. She continues to try to escape. She writes to her father, smuggling letters to the mailman. She obtains a bit of money. The village is without pity, except for the teacher. Can he help her? Anger mounts.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Yang Li
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
Year:
2007
95 min
49 Views


Stop yelling. If you were kidnapped,

what proof do you have?

You want to run away even though

they handed over a dowry?

Aren't you the one who's cheating them?

She must be faking marriage

for the money.

I never took their money.

If I had, then you could

throw me in jail.

Who'd f***ing do that?

Who'd pay me back?

Please help me. I'm telling the truth.

Who knows if you're telling the truth?

Where's your ID?

My ID? It was stolen.

You don't even have an ID.

How can anyone believe you?

Go on back with them for now.

The village council will look into this.

It's settled. Go on back.

Go on.

Thanks.

I won't chain you up if you stop...

trying to run away.

Fourth Uncle! Fourth Aunt!

Have a seat. Get some water.

No thanks.

We're here to collect the pig tax.

The total is 38.40.

That's right.

I sold the pig two months ago.

Really? Did you pay any tax?

Show us the receipt.

Go get it.

Pig tax, pork tax, income tax.

Got to pay them all.

You still owe 18.20.

But we don't have any pigs now.

It doesn't matter.

That's the rule from above.

Don't make things hard on us.

Ignore her. My woman's gone crazy.

Help me!

We don't handle family matters.

You're damn lucky!

Control her. Words alone

can't f***ing get the job done.

It's just like tax. Got to be forceful.

Okay.

Help me!

Stop yelling or

I'll beat your f***ing mouth in.

Okay, that's enough.

B*tch, I can make you obey me.

Go on. That's enough.

Mom, how's she today?

She's been quiet.

Mom!

- Decheng, I need money.

- What happened?

My wife slit her wrist.

Go back inside and study.

Hurry and take her to the hospital.

Doctor!

What?

She slit her wrist.

To the operation room.

Go on! Hurry!

Doctor, please save my daughter-in-law.

What happened?

She slit her wrist.

Put her on the bed inside.

Where's her husband?

Here.

Did you bring money?

Yeah, but not much.

Go pay.

Doctor, is she going to die?

Save her first.

You have to pay first.

Why's medicine

so f***ing expensive now?

Hospitals are all the same.

Doctors all get a cut.

This hospital is okay.

Larger ones are more corrupt.

Ok. Don't worry.

Do you feel better?

I'm Chen. She's Deng.

Your mother-in-law asked us

to talk to you.

She's not my mother-in-law.

Hold him.

Actually,

we were bought like you.

Want to sit?

Listen.

You can't change things now.

Accept it or you'll make things worse.

That's right.

Just look at the mess in here.

Do you have a comb? I'll comb your hair.

Four years ago, I felt the same way.

I couldn't take my husband's beatings.

Chen, help me to escape.

You'll never make it.

Who doesn't want to escape?

There's only one road out.

It is blocked. There's no way out.

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