MLLI Film Festival: "Blind Shaft"
Intercultural Encounters on the Big Screen
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 · 7 - 10 PM
FILM TITLE: Blind Shaft (Li Yang, China, 2003)
SCREENWRITER: Li Yang
CAST: Wang Baoqiang, Qiang Li, & Shuangbao Wang
Blind Shaft is the story of two Chinese men who work in the mines of rural China. The two men seek extra money, so they devise a plan to murder a fellow worker, claim that his death was a mining accident, pass him off as their family member, and run away with the settlement. Their plan works, however, as their ambitions increase, their plan becomes jeopardized.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication.