"Gone with the Bullets" 

A poster of "Gone with the Bullets"

 

Director and actor Jiang Wen's new effort "Gone with the Bullets" is an odd adventure filled with perhaps far too many different genres in a magic realism setting of Shanghai in the early 20th century. From the beginning to the end, he tosses in many symbols, genres, metaphors, philosophies and all his favorite elements, including mimicking "The Godfather", "Moulin Rouge" as well as Shakespeare, Chinese opera, Verdi’s opera "La Traviata", stand-up comedy, black and white silent film, documentary film and stage plays. It may be his most personal film that tells a twisted love story with regret while playing up ironies directly aimed at bureaucrats, society, politics, betrayal and media power. Jiang waywardly wants his audiences to immerse themselves in his bizarre, wild and ambitious dream and to feel his soul - his sadness and artistic vision of love and the world.

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