![]() Part political commentary, part expose on relationships in the digital landscape, Trap Street staggers aimlessly for 90 minutes through a hollow plot and languishing ideas. Pursuing a strange woman on a rainy night ensnares Quiming in an underworld of government corruption and conspiracy when he discovers that his enigmatic femme fatale, Guan Lifen (played with vacant elusivity by actress He Wenchao), resides on a street that doesn't exist on maps. Thoroughly disappointing, Trap Street marks the first dud of MIFF 2014 for me - and it is a shame it came from a film I was hugely excited for. place with children roaming the streets, corrupt policemen and loose women. Li Quiming (Lu Yulai) is a part time city surveyor, supplementing his low paid traineeship by installing illegal surveillance cameras in hotels and gentlemen's saunas. They start in Amsterdam, and are lured to a hostel somewhere in. Trap Street (2013) viewed at home on a small screen IMDb more reviews: Movie Review Query Engine Rotten Tomatoes. Nominated for the First Feature prize at this year's London Film Festival, the film explores how information technology is both the target and perpetrator of State meddling in contemporary China, laying bare the nation's spiralling surveillance culture with a dark, noirish twist. ★★★☆☆ Much like Ai Wei Wei's recent Surveillance Camera sculpture, Vivian Qu takes on China's aggressive panoptical policing in Trap Street (2013) with a sense of doomed inquiry. ![]()
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