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The Innocent Are Backed Into A Corner: A Red One
In RED CORNER, director Jon Avnet dramatises the deepest fear of a Westerner who visits a thuggish regime--that of being accused of a serious crime and with no expectation of help from a impotent American embassy. Richard Gere is Jack Moore, an American who sells sexy advertising to Communist China businesses. While there, he meets and has a brief affair with a beautiful model who just happens to be connected to a high party official. She is murdered and he is arrested and brought before a Chinese tribunal whose court appointed defense advocate (Bai Ling) advises him to throw himself on the mercy of the court by pleading guilty. <
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>Other reviewers have commented on what they see as the heavy handed use of anti-Red bias when Moore is continually balked in his desire to achieve justice. Time and again Moore cries out for the right to call forbidden witnesses, and he is rebuffed each time. The fact that he is rebuffed has been taken as a direct thrust at the unfairness of the Chinese judicial system. But this thrust is undercut when Moore's attorney points out to him that China, which has six times the population of North America, has a crime rate one tenth that of the United States. The very unfairness of a legal stacked deck is unfair only to those with a passing acquaintance of the US constitution. To the Chinese, such a system works quite well. <
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>The really interesting parts of the film lie not in the heavy handed escape sequence in which Moore manages to avoid an entire platoon of pursuing police not does it rest in his walking out of the sanctuary of the American embassy, after having made it through the front door. Rather RED CORNER'S selling point is the deepening interplay between Gere and Bai Ling, who collectively unite to force a minor victory over a corrupt party official. They work together but do not fall predictably in love. Their departure, he at the airport, she at the need to return to her life style, emphasizes that despite the vast gulf between divergent cultures, there yet remains a common link between people who may share more than just the common experience of saving a life. RED CORNER reminds the viewer that this link is to be savored for its rarity.

A superb tale of backdoor justice
A gripping film, masterfully acted, which kept our entire family in thrall from start to finish. <
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>Richard Gere plays an amoral Western businessman touting soft-porn movies in Red China. He takes a novel approach to get his movies past the Chinese censors - he suggests that they will confirm the image of Western decadence in Chinese minds. <
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>He is the archetypal brash American businessman who evidently expects to have the same rights in China that he takes for granted in America. On a visit to a Chinese disco, he naively imagines that the beautiful girl who is sketching his profile is genuinely attracted to him - not just a government "plant" set up to compromise him. She returns with him to the hotel - where a tastefully discreet low-level sex-scene ensues (I had to distract my youngest son's attention for about 60 seconds at this point). He is woken up by police the next morning - to find his shirt covered in blood, and his lover stabbed to death. He is tried for murder. <
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>The script would surely not embitter anyone to life in China. If this were Saudi Arabia, Gere might simply be tortured until he "confessed". Here he is lucky enough to be defended by an idealistic young lawyer (brilliantly acted by Bai Ling), and to be brought before a judge who - while imperious and sycophantic to the body-language of the watching officials - at least respects the criminal-code and permits sufficient questioning of witnesses for the truth to emerge. <
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>If anything, the film perhaps paints too flattering a picture of Chinese justice - if not a fictitious one. But the courtroom-scene is intrinsically plausible, the acting is absolutely first-rate throughout and mercifully free of soap, and the characters evolve convincingly - he from a vain self-centred businessman to one who abandons the sanctuary of the American embassy to protect the honor of his advocate, and she from a dispassionate apparatchic to one who puts her life on the line for her client. <
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>The tension rises steadily as the court-case approaches its climax. Eventually it becomes too hot for the presiding judge and her "minder" and she abruptly dissolves the court - but that does not stop the accusations continuing to fly and finally the father of the murdered girl taking justice into his own hands. A riveting finish to a film with scarcely a dull moment in it.