So this thread is to ask the chinese members a couple questions about this movie.
I saw a movie called "Touch of Sin" and ever since something has been bothering me.
Now this movie has 4 stories that are loosely/vaguely connected to each other. One of those stories involves a man who lives in rural Shanxi province and he is really obsessed with proving that the local village chief and a local business man are deeply involved in corruption and looks for ways to frame them legally. But he fails in this and he becomes increasingly frustrated.
At one point he takes out a shotgun and several ammo shells out of an almirah (not even a proper gun safe, just an almirah with clothes etc) in his house and then in a period of heightened emotional state/ mental issues, proceeds to murder all those he believes (about 4 or 5 people) were involved in the corruption scam.
The shot gun part baffled me. I thought china, and east asia in general, was big on gun control; I mean I read that the rules are more strict than even India, which itself has strict rules for gun possession.
But in this movie, this average rural guy from Shanxi province has a gun lying around in his home almirah. Also note that in the process of executing said businessman and his allies he carries the shot gun around the streets of the village simply covered by a piece of cloth. The outlines of the gun are clearly visible but none of the villagers even bat an eye, they weren't surprised to see a dude carry a shot gun around town. In fact one of the dude's friends sees the gun and asks him if he's going hunting and the dude replies, "Yup, gonna hunt some animals" (referring to the corrupt people)
So some questions are :
1. Are guns common in rural China? I mean this guy had it snuck away in his almirah.
2. Are guns not taboo for civilians in Chinese rural sides? I mean the villagers didn't even seem to care when our dude was carrying the gun around the village.
Wikipedia says guns are very difficult to possess in China but doesn't say anything about the difference in rural and urban laws. Plus wiki says even those guns that are possessed by civilians are usually not kept at their home but at some safe storage facility like say a shooting range.
So what's the reality?
@beijingwalker @kankan326 @vi-va @Beast other people from china or who know these type of things about gun laws.
I saw a movie called "Touch of Sin" and ever since something has been bothering me.
Now this movie has 4 stories that are loosely/vaguely connected to each other. One of those stories involves a man who lives in rural Shanxi province and he is really obsessed with proving that the local village chief and a local business man are deeply involved in corruption and looks for ways to frame them legally. But he fails in this and he becomes increasingly frustrated.
At one point he takes out a shotgun and several ammo shells out of an almirah (not even a proper gun safe, just an almirah with clothes etc) in his house and then in a period of heightened emotional state/ mental issues, proceeds to murder all those he believes (about 4 or 5 people) were involved in the corruption scam.
The shot gun part baffled me. I thought china, and east asia in general, was big on gun control; I mean I read that the rules are more strict than even India, which itself has strict rules for gun possession.
But in this movie, this average rural guy from Shanxi province has a gun lying around in his home almirah. Also note that in the process of executing said businessman and his allies he carries the shot gun around the streets of the village simply covered by a piece of cloth. The outlines of the gun are clearly visible but none of the villagers even bat an eye, they weren't surprised to see a dude carry a shot gun around town. In fact one of the dude's friends sees the gun and asks him if he's going hunting and the dude replies, "Yup, gonna hunt some animals" (referring to the corrupt people)
So some questions are :
1. Are guns common in rural China? I mean this guy had it snuck away in his almirah.
2. Are guns not taboo for civilians in Chinese rural sides? I mean the villagers didn't even seem to care when our dude was carrying the gun around the village.
Wikipedia says guns are very difficult to possess in China but doesn't say anything about the difference in rural and urban laws. Plus wiki says even those guns that are possessed by civilians are usually not kept at their home but at some safe storage facility like say a shooting range.
So what's the reality?
@beijingwalker @kankan326 @vi-va @Beast other people from china or who know these type of things about gun laws.
