The impressive directorial debut of Yinan Diao Uniform is a taut thriller that exposes the corrupting influence of poverty on a society beset by industrial decay and urban despair. With the local factory closed and his ailing father unemployed street tailor Xiao Jian finds himself unable to pay his family's bills. When a laundered police-officer's shirt remains uncollected he decides to play the role of cop with unexpected results. Extoting payments from drivers who break minor traffic laws attracting the attention of a young woman who works in a CD store and suddenly... becoming visible to the world at large Xiao Jian also discovers the terrible cost of leading such a precarious double life. One of the defining 'underground' films of the Chinese Sixth Generation Uniform deftly balances social comment with an intimate character study of a man desperate enough to risk everything in order to escape the life he is trapped in. [show more]
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Chinese thriller about a young man leading a precarious double life. When the local factory closes and his ailing father becomes unemployed, it falls on street tailor Xiaojian (Hongli Liang) to somehow cover the family bills. When a laundered police officer's shirt is left uncollected, Xiaojan sees a way to make ends meet. He takes on the role of cop, extorting on-the-spot fines from drivers who break minor traffic laws. He also finds that the uniform makes him visible to the world at large and he begins dating Shasha (Xueqiong Zeng), a young woman who works in a CD shop. Pretty soon Xiaojian discovers the true cost of having two identities; and it seems he's not the only one. The film balances social comment with an intimate character study of a desperate man willing to risk everything to escape the shackles of poverty.
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