China simply does not feature enough on cinema screens, but this fine film suggests hope for the future. The Artificial Eye DVD which I watched this film on did not provide subtitles for many of the voices on radio and television, nor for some of the secondary characters, but there is an enormous amount of visual detail to take in as well.
The non-professional cast, however, is surprisingly effective Hong Wei Wang is a real find, exuding a seedy charm in the lead role. The muffled state of the soundtrack takes some getting used to, but writer-director Zhang Ke Jia was clearly working on a limited budget for his first feature. The hand-held camera adds intimacy to the karaoke scenes and captures the distance between the two brothers as they walk separately through the same streets. The footage in this film is much grainier than many people made be used to, but this is not necessarily a weakness: the image quality suits the grey, dilapidated city streets. PickPockets Foragers are fully washable/tumble dryable fleece feeders in which dogs hunt for treats inside pockets. In the final frames of the film he is publicly humiliated, bringing the story to a sad end. But Mei Mei's sudden disappearance, along with his alienation from his family, leaves Xiao Wu without direction. When Xiao Wu buys a pager (state of the art in 1997) to keep in touch with Mei Mei it seems that he is starting to open up just a little to the changing world. Xiao Wu suddenly finds his singing voice when alone in a bathhouse his plain voice resounds poignantly in the large, grimy, empty room. The taciturn pickpocket opens up a little in her presence and the two of them bond, somewhat oddly from a Western perspective, through karaoke singing. Xiao Wu finds a glimmer of hope in his encounters with Mei Mei, an employee at the local brothel. A sense develops that the world is moving on and that Xiao Wu is being left behind this is increased by the ongoing police-led evictions from the street where he spends much of his time a new building project is on its way. Later on, Xiao Wu also discovers the shame that his hardworking parents feel for their pickpocket son. A money belt tucked underneath your clothes keeps your essentials on you as securely and thoughtlessly as your underwear. Xiao Yong, shamed by his criminal roots and his brother's failure to move on from the same position, excludes Xiao Wu from his wedding invitations and refuses to accept his wedding gift of ill-gotten money. Criminals, especially pickpockets and distraction thieves, will target these areas because of the distraction techniques they can use and the large number of. Xiao Wu's brother, Xiao Yong, once himself a petty thief, is now a cigarette trader and brothel-owner. His time is whiled away with games of Mahjong and American pool played out in the street and he has few close friends. Xiao Wu is a surly character, prone to throwing away his cigarette ends when in other people's homes.
Stuck on the bottom rung of the criminal ladder despite his advance into adult years, he heads a small group of thieving street urchins who haunt the back streets of the city.
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