Synopsis
一个勺子
With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.
Adventure + Drama in Other Asia
10 Other Asia titles in our catalog blend the Adventure and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding A Fool itself).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 18 other Other Asia films in 2015.
The 345th Other Asia title from Other Asia we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1949).
Our Other Asia catalog contains 547 titles in total (522 films).
Audience Engagement
20 audience reviews — more than 60% of Other Asia films in our index.
Review volume (60th percentile) outruns trending popularity (27th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #115 of 547 Other Asia films indexed here (79th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.7 points above the Other Asia average of 6.6/10.
Among Other Asia Adventure productions specifically: #3 of 20 (top 15%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Other Asia |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Runtime | 1h 43m |
| Release Date | May 1, 2015 |
| IMDb | tt3856504 |