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East Palace, West Palace (1996) |
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90
minutes
Rated: NR
Mandarin with English subtitles
Country: China
Studio: Strand Releasing
Cast: Si Han, Hu Jun
Director/Screenwriter: Zhang
Yuan |
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The film follows the young gay
writer, A-Lan, as he drifts in and
out of China's hidden homosexual
haunts, where he is beaten,
humiliated and harassed along with
other gays. When a handsome
policeman busts him for "cruising"
the grounds of the Forbidden Palace,
A-lan starts to see his behavior as
a dangerous obsession. When he is
caught by the officer a second time,
A-lan undergoes a loaded overnight
interrogation laced with barely
sublimated erotic tension in which
he talks about his life as a
homosexual to the enraptured
officer. As A-lan describes the
sometimes tortuous conditions of
being gay in China, which he proudly
proclaims "make life worth living,"
the master and servant relationship
slowly evolves into one of curious
attraction and fear. |
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