‘Girls On Wire’ Review: Vivian Qu’s Genre Hybrid Is A Surprisingly Gritty Study Of Chinese Lives In The Margins – Berlin Film Festival
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deadline.comLives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and leavens both with a dash of unexpected humor.
A key player in the unfolding story is Chinese cinema itself, played by Xiangshan Film City, a dream factory with the emphasis on factory.
Though it ends with a glimmer of hope on the horizon, Girls on Wire takes a very sober view of life in industrialized China, and all the myriad unfairnesses that exist there.
The first of the two protagonists we meet is Tian Tian (Liu Haocun), a country girl kept in captivity by unknown abductors who keep her dosed up with heroin to keep her quiet.
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