Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web Chinese pinyin Susu is a 2012 Chinese drama film directed by Chen Kaige. In September 2012 it screened as a special presentation at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave the film a score of 910, and states Chen has come late in the game to dealing with the social and ethical contradictions of life in modernday China, but Web more than makes up for lost time. Densely plotted across its two hours runningtime, the film starts as a black comedy on the destructive power of modern media especially Chinas internet discussion boards but from its midway point gradually morphs into a complex web of love and ambition, both gained and lost.Maggie Lee of Variety describes it as An engrossing, if lengthy social drama in which a womans minor public misconduct plunges her into a dragnet of cyber witchhunting that unseats relationships, careers and a business empire, the punningly titled Caught in the Web reps a thoughtprovoking, characterdriven morality tale by Chinese helmer Chen Kaige. ........
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