The Message - 風聲

I’ve never really tuned into a Mainland China movie. But this is really good.

The message stars Zhou Xun and Li Bing Bing - these ladies deserve all praise for their endearing and convincing act in the show.

In a nutshell, the shows revolves around 5 high ranking officials who are brought in for questioning - amongst them was a suspected traitor. Slowly as the show progressed, one official was tortured to death and the other shot himself. Leaving behind 3 officials.

The torture was slow, but the show wasn’t slow. For those officials who were not willing to speak, they were tortured by Mister Six, a man who used acupuncture as a form of torture. One of the female officials was also tortured - for ways that I shall not comment about.

The story is really well woven and well shot. I sat there wanting to know more, and wanting to know who was the traitor and how was the person trying to get the message out.

And how the Japanese man got killed in the end - that was really a wow moment.