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| | Amazon.com: Frozen: DVD: Hongshen Jia,Xiaoqing Ma,Yu Bai,Geng Li,Yefu Bai,Ye Wei,Yongning Zhang,Lixin Qu,Jie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | A member of a small group of intellectuals and artists, performs a series of symbolic ritual suicides--burial by earth, water, and fire--on the first day of each season, and plans to publicly end his life for good in a final ice burial. |
 | | Wang Xiaoshuai's deliberate direction and unadorned shooting style has won accolades for its simplicity and directness, highlighted in two genuine performance-art pieces: the first a stomach churning document of two men eating a bar of soap, and the second the shivering ice burial. |
 | | Frozen, as previous reviews have explained, is essentially about a young performance artist who to raise his apparent spiritual malnourishment or general weariness with life to an art form decides to take his own life in protest against....well, we're not sure exactly, and that's the problem with the film. |
| www.amazon.com /Frozen-Xiaoshuai-Wang/dp/1572527854 (1674 words) |
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