A man must attempt to clear his name after a theatre puts on a play that accuses him of committing a 30-year-old murder.
Acting
Chen Jianbin directs himself with delicious self-awareness as the accused.
Direction
Layers reality, play, and memory until you forget which is weapon.
Writing
Script weaponizes dramatic irony—audience knows more than characters, or do they?
Director
Chen Jianbin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chen Jianbin, primarily known as TV actor, used this film to critique China's rural-urban divide and performative 'face' culture.
The theatre audience's shifting sympathies mirror real viewers—Jianbin deliberately breaks fourth wall to implicate us as complicit judges.
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