{"id":774,"date":"2014-04-25T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2021-03-04T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:50:13","slug":"a-fantastic-fear-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"A fantastic fear of sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/220px-a_touch_of_sin_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-775 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/220px-a_touch_of_sin_poster.jpg?w=211\" alt=\"A Touch of Sin (2013)\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2852400\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">A Touch of Sin<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2013)<\/p>\n<p>This medley of vignettes highlights the underbelly of contemporary Chinese society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_China\">A billion people live in China<\/a>, but the news is so carefully <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Press_Freedom_Index\">controlled by the state<\/a>\u00a0most outsiders have no clue what is happening there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0both disturbing\u00a0and reassuring they have as many <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhou_Kehua\">psychopaths<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deng_Yujiao_incident\">murderers<\/a>\u00a0as the West.<\/p>\n<p>In America, every salacious story is destined to become fodder for a film adaptation. \u00a0Based on recent headline grabbing murderers in China, this movie indicates the fascination with evil and violent\u00a0criminals is universal.\u00a0For better or worse, it&#8217;s a natural part of humanity; everyone has a touch of sin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/afantasticfearofeverything0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-776 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/afantasticfearofeverything0001.jpg?w=202\" alt=\"A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2006040\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">A Fantastic Fear of Everything<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2012)<\/p>\n<p>Jack (Simon Pegg) is a former author of children&#8217;s books whose career change to crime novelist provokes an unhealthy obsession with murder.<\/p>\n<p>Pegg\u00a0is a talented actor with high profile roles in<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spaced\">Spaced<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission:_Impossible_(film_series)\">the <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em> franchise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotty_(Star_Trek)\">the <em>Star Trek<\/em> franchise<\/a>,\u00a0and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Flavours_Cornetto_trilogy\">series of films with Nick Frost and Edgar Wright<\/a>. \u00a0Unfortunately, extreme paranoia doesn&#8217;t suit him and this film is a blemish on his resum\u00e8.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a minor novel by Bruce Robinson, who directed the fantastic <em>Withnail and I\u00a0<\/em>(1987), this is more style than substance and plays like a shadow of <em>The Shining\u00a0<\/em>(1980).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Touch of Sin\u00a0(2013) This medley of vignettes highlights the underbelly of contemporary Chinese society. A billion people live in China, but the news is so carefully controlled by the state\u00a0most outsiders have no clue what is happening there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0both disturbing\u00a0and reassuring they have as many psychopaths\u00a0and murderers\u00a0as the West. In America, every salacious&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=774\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A fantastic fear of sin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157,727,903],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-chinese-cinema","tag-simon-pegg","tag-wuxia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}