- English name：The Case
- Broadcast time：2007
- Starring：王宏伟、伍宇娟、王丝菲
- director：王分
Introduction
From young actress-turned-director Wang Fen（王分 Wáng Fēn） comes this offbeat tale of intrigue and suspense, set in Lijiang（丽江 Lìjiāng）. Anyone who has experienced the tourist hell of this UNESCO-listed town may be surprised to see it quiet, atmospheric and free of hordes of people. Wang uses the old streets to lend a sense of claustrophobia to her tale.
A middle-aged couple run a guesthouse by the river, and one day the husband, Dashang (Wu Gang), spots a case floating by. Rather than the treasures he had hoped to find, the case contains body parts. As Dashang puzzles over how to dispose of his grisly find, an attractive young couple show up at the guesthouse, prompting feelings of longing, desire and suspicion.
Wang gives the film a twist by suggesting that it may all be a figment of Dashang’s imagination, trapped as he is in an unhappy marriage and longing for escape. The film has a dreamlike quality, while also portraying the psychological world of a middle-aged man in contemporary China. But not everyone will enjoy the strange blend of comedy and suspense, the characters engaged in farcical goings-on while living in a mysterious and empty city, in which unexpected horrors hide around every corner.
Plot
There is a small hotel owner named He Dashang in Shuhe Ancient Town, Lijiang. When he got up one morning, he saw a box floating in the river. When he opened the box, he saw countless pieces of dismembered and frozen bodies. He was terrified and wanted to hide it from his suspicious wife while trying to get rid of this terrible box.
Just then, a young couple moved into the small hotel with slow business. The woman was particularly mysterious and sexy. He Dashang thought that the freedom he dreamed of had finally arrived, but unexpectedly, when he was about to have sex with the woman, he was seen by his wife who suddenly appeared. During the fight, He Dashang killed his wife with a piece of frozen corpse and fled with the woman. Just when they were about to throw He Dashang’s wife off the cliff, He Dashang realized that the frozen corpse was killed by the mysterious woman. In a state of confusion and sudden enlightenment, He Dashang was pushed off the cliff by the woman. After a scream, it turned out to be a dream. In the early morning after waking up from the dream, a box floated in the river. Someone was about to fish it out, but no one knew what was in the box.
