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Program 22
Directors Guild of America • 5:30 p.m. • Theatre 3
 
UNIFORM (Zhifu)
(PRC, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Diao Yinan
Wang Xiaojian is a young man in deep shit at the time he impulsively decides to start impersonating a policeman. His father is sick and running up hospital bills; his only income comes from the family’s sideline in tailoring and laundering; and the neighbors think that he’s a stool-pigeon for the cops. He starts off wearing a police shirt uncollected from the laundry. Before long he’s knocked up a full uniform for himself—and his life gets much, much better. Aside from giving him the power to extort bribes, it gives him the confidence to start dating Shasha, the girl working in the pirated CD shop. Like him, though, she has a secret other life...
Video, 94 min., color, Narrative, in Mandarin w/Eng. subtitles
 
 
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