A Fool 2015 Directed by Chen Jianbin 一个勺子
With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.
Cast
Chen Jianbin
La Tiaozi
Jiang Qinqin
Jin Zhizi
Wang Xuebing
Brother Li
Jin Shijia
Shao Zi
Xufeng Wang
Li Laosan