AIDS Patient (1988)

even worse than the epidemic as metaphor is the epidemic of metaphors // self-orientalizing epics vs. conservative reaction // state funding // anti-pornography thrillers

» » » » Still knocking around the canon as the measure for all later productions, the films that escaped China through the film festival circuit or Western distribution companies in the late 1980s and early 1990s were of two types—the exposé of the horrors of socialism and the self-Orientalizing epic… I’m talking about the movies that you are most likel…