The Movie: This is a film from Joan Chen. It was banned in China due to its content. It's in chinese, with english subtitles. Cami and Helen saw this movie at an indie theater some years ago, but I had never seen it before. Cami even has a poster from this movie hanging in the bathroom, except it's reversed so it looks normal when you look in the mirror. It's creepily cool, the poster is.

Anyway. This is singlehandedly the most depressing movie I have ever seen. You think Requiem for a Dream is depressing and fucked up? That thing isn't even close to how depressing this movie is. It did, however, draw me in and keep my attention, although due to some chemically induced impairments, I did have some difficulty reading the subtitles for the first half of this movie. By the end though, I pretty much wanted to cry. Why anyone would ever want to make such a depressing movie, I'll never know, but it's definitely an experience in film, and if you ever want to see something really good, yet really, really sad movie about a person with all the possibilities in the world before them and yet absolutely no hope for achieving any of it... you should check out this thing.

The DVD: As far as DVD special features content, this movie has none, except for chapter selection. It's in chinese with english subtitles which are built in to the movie (i.e. you cannnot turn the subtitles off, they are just there). Not like it matters to me though, I'm not chinese and I don't speak chinese so it's a good thing those subtitles are there!