A vital Fifth Generation job released throughout the second stage of Deng Xiaoping's social and economic reforms, this robust social satire wonderfully portrays the clash between the climbing class of quick commercial modernizers as well as old Celebration staffs with a major Cultural Transformation hangover. The movie narrates the Kafkaesque dilemma of a bumbling factory translator who is believed of commercial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is obstructed by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title refers to the missing chess piece the hapless hero is trying to situate.) Positioned under investigation and reassigned to a much less sensitive division yet never informed of the reason for his downgrading, he requests to obtain his task back, stimulating a significantly obtuse and also humorous collection of Event meetings, set in a boardroom straight out of German Expressionism.
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A vital Fifth Generation job released throughout the second stage of Deng Xiaoping's social and economic reforms, this robust social satire wonderfully portrays the clash between the climbing class of quick commercial modernizers as well as old Celebration staffs with a major Cultural Transformation hangover. The movie narrates the Kafkaesque dilemma of a bumbling factory translator who is believed of commercial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is obstructed by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title refers to the missing chess piece the hapless hero is trying to situate.) Positioned under investigation and reassigned to a much less sensitive division yet never informed of the reason for his downgrading, he requests to obtain his task back, stimulating a significantly obtuse and also humorous collection of Event meetings, set in a boardroom straight out of German Expressionism.
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