SPOILER ALERT!!! The coal gets very little screen time.
Black Coal, Thin Ice is an interesting film. If you blink or look away for one second you may miss very important information, like I did. The films plot is a murder mystery with a time scale of over a decade but to be honest the beginning is more like a flash back that wasn’t really needed. The clues that the detectives go on are so small it is amazing they hadn’t figured it out before the crimes were committed. What saves this film is it’s beauty, the province of China this film is set in is a dirty neon landscape covered in lifeless miserable snow, with bold cuts between night and day this film really is a treat to watch. The intermittent bursts of comedy are either a pleasant break in the mystery or an odd addition to the plot, case in point for the latter being the unnecessary dance scene towards the end. It is hard for me to say whether I enjoyed this film or not, right now I think I did.
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