The Outrageous Reality of Chinese Cops: <i>Crime and Punishment</i>
By Steve Erickson Originally published on Fandor, where Crime and Punishment is available on streaming video. Zhao Liang has distinguished himself as one of the fiercest of the Chinese documentarians who’ve emerged in the past ten years. His 2007 debut Crime and Punishment offers a dose of Zhao’s filmmaking at full force. At first glance, the film, which closely follows the lives of Chinese military police monitoring a North Korean border town, might bring to mind American re