Sex panic.Shanghai Panic * Ariztical Entertainment * $29.99 Adapted by director Andrew Cheng from author Mian Mian's novel We Are Panic, this 2001 film is among the seminal indie works to emerge from mainland China's recent underground queer cinema movement. (Other titles recently on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. include The Old Testament and Night Scene.) In Shanghai Panic, Mian Mian herself plays Kika, de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. den mother to a clique (mathematics) clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). of ephedrine-popping youths including former ballet dancer Bei, lesbian tomboy tomboy Psychology A popular term for a girl whose developmental gender-identity/role is discordant with her genotype. Cf Sissy. Casper, and beautiful prostitute Fifi. The fractured, episodic narrative begins as the closeted clos·et·ed adj. Being In a state of secrecy or cautious privacy. Bei announces that he's suffering what appears to be AIDS symptoms. Barely educated on the subject, his friends are panicked, and this health scare motivates Bei to inch out of the closet and confront--and hopefully seduce--his longtime crush Jie. While the film's guerrilla-style digital video production values are bare-bones and its dialogue sparse, there's a raw truth to the proceedings, especially in the tense, awkward encounter between Bei and Jie (which includes a nude hot tub dip). It's a marvel of fumbling trepidation sure to stir memories in many viewers. Some types of panic cross all geographical borders.--Lawrence Ferber |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion