{"id":6560,"date":"2013-05-06T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T03:47:07","slug":"film-cloudy-mountains-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6560","title":{"rendered":"Film: Cloudy Mountains (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Synopsis: \u00a0Bleak fly-on-the-wall documentary of seasonal workers at a remote Chinese asbestos packing plant.<\/p>\n

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Zhu Yu\u2019s quiet, fly on the wall portrait of asbestos packers in a remote Chinese mountain region has potent, stark images and quiet moments of unease to make viewers squirm (a worker\u2019s persistent eye-rubbing to dislodge a poisonous fibrous glob makes a simple, cringe-worthy comment on the utter lack of modern preventative gear in the plant), but the narrative is all over the place, lacking any cohesive structure. The intention was likely to reveal in almost mundane detail the routine chores and isolated lives of the workers, and mimic the monotony of the transition from days to nights within a region layered in poisonous grey dust, but Yu repeats a lot of the same visual information while avoiding any details of how the dangerous fibre is mined before it\u2019s conveyed to the surface for bagging & shipping. The effort to maintain a functioning, social community in what\u2019s essentially a tent city adjacent to Hell\u2019s crevice is fascinating, but Cloudy<\/strong> Mountains<\/strong> feels like an assembly edit interrupted by the odd traditional on-camera interview.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Return to: Home \/\u00a0Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews \/ C . Film: Good \/ DVD Transfer: \u00a0n\/a \/ DVD Extras: n\/a Label: n\/a\u00a0\/ Region: n\/a\u00a0\/\u00a0Released: n\/a Genre: Documentary \/ Mining \/ Hot Docs 2013 Synopsis: \u00a0Bleak fly-on-the-wall documentary of seasonal workers at a remote Chinese asbestos packing plant. Special Features: n\/a. . Review: Winner of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2012,2010,461,2816,2011],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1HO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}