Blind Shaft

Tang and Song are modern-day Chinese day laborers who discover that there’s more money in murder than in hard work and obedience to Maoist principles. Wait—murder is a Maoist principle. OK, maybe they’re just good communists who are redistributing the wealth to themselves. So they sing socialist songs, get it on with prostitutes and get into the whole "New China" thing, which is apparently about using Maoist murder and marrying it to money-grubbing Western capitalism. Director Li Yang made this film in secret, and then fled to Germany, where there’s more artistic freedom and nobody gets mad at you for making fun of the state, because they had a bad experience with that a few years ago.