The movie is based on Liu Qingbang’s novel “Shenmu”, which tells the story of two peasants’ methods of getting rich: first, high wages as bait, the foreign peasants who have no way to work recognize as their relatives tricked into working under the mines, and then create a “safety accident” when going down the wells to fake the scene of the mining accident, and then look for an opportunity to kill “relatives” in collusion, and then pose as the miners’ families to claim huge amounts of compensation from the mine owners. Then, when going down the shaft, they create a “safety accident” and fake the scene of the mine disaster, looking for an opportunity to kill their “relatives”, and then, posing as family members of the miners, they ask the mine owner for huge compensation.
The really scary thing is that the content of the movie describes the dangerous situation of the coal mining industry, the reality is real, the prototype of the movie script is the 1998 Pan Shenbao, Yu Guiyin and others forged the mine accident murder fraud compensation case, the case killed 52 people.
Ironically, director Li Yang was banned for three years by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television because of this movie.
2003 / China, Germany, Hong Kong, China / Drama, Crime / Li Yang / Wang Shuangbao Wang Baoqiang
The way to make a fortune for farmers Tang Chaoyang (Wang Shuangbao) and Song Jinming (Li Yixiang), who work in a small private coal mine, is to get close to foreign farmers who have no way to work and recognize them as their relatives, then create a “safety accident” and kill the “relatives” when they are working underground. The first is to kill, and then look for the mine owner to make a private settlement.
The two men at the train station on the 16-year-old ignorant rural teenager Yuan Fengming (Wang Baoqiang), the trick again to help him do a fake ID card, after the name change Yuan Fengming “become” Song Jinming’s nephew.
The three came to a new small coal mine to become a coal digger, Yuan Fengming’s good learning, simple, innocent and thoughtful often reminds Song Jinming of their own children are studying, born of compassionate hesitant to start, and Tang Chaoyang’s contradictions are increasingly intensified, and soon, Tang Chaoyang set a deadline for him.
