Once in a while my girlfriend and I eat at a local chinese restaurant. Mostly we order dim sum for a starter. After seeing this film we didn't for quite some time.
This movie is rather disturbing. It's pretty nauseating, but not because of gore, scary beast or anything like that. The psychology behind it is the real horror aspect.
The acting is superb. The main role is a woman who wants to be young again, so she can marry a waelthy man. Her futility and greed are very confronting for everybody I guess, for it's human nature after all. The woman hears of a sort of wonderdoctor who can make you look years younger by eating her homemade dumplings (dim sum). It turns out the dumplings are made of young womens foetuses.
The movie is shot beautyfully. You don't see the actual butchering of the unborn babys, but the suggestion is made. This made the film more creepy than when it had containted a lot of splutter.
The final scene is terrifying, the way the main character, bathing in blood, looks into the camera, combinded with some chinese singing, gave me the chills.
Jiao zi (2004)
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- Author: schnaeckerdt Bon appetit
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