Old Stone (2016)

Original title

老石

Directed by

Johnny Ma

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cab driver in China hits a motorcyclist and tries to do the right thing. He gets trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare where the law punishes helping more than leaving someone to die.

suspensefulbleakslow-burnclaustrophobictensefrustratingrealisticunsettling

What happens

Old Stone (Chinese: 老石; pinyin: Lǎo Shí) is a 2016 Chinese-Canadian drama film directed by Johnny Ma. It was selected to be screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. The film tells the story of Lao Shi (Chen Gang), a cab driver in China whose life spirals out of control after he hits a motorcyclist, leaving him trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare because Chinese laws effectively criminalize such an accident far more harshly if the driver stops to help the victim than they do if he simply leaves the victim to die. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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