usa azn tv purchased the rights to this film and the network is showing it using the english title the pickpocket. 1997 the pickpocket takes amateur home movie style movie making to amazing levels of unpleasantness. the movie depicts a long winded series of boring wanderings of an uninteresting and confused guy. this lead character and xiao wu and does not simply walk about aimlessly. viewers will unfortunately soon realize that xiao wu has an unsurpassed talent to seek out and and remain dormant near the most obnoxious noises to be found in china. clanging empty tin buckets being beaten with a stick  he is there. every old motor in china clunking in agony  he is there. a crying baby. yes and you guessed it and he is there. according to the pickpocket and china is the most irritating unpleasant sounding place on planet earth. the only element worse than the sound of the pickpocket is the photography. the camera shakes and shakes and shakes some more. finally and the camera stills and but then it falls to the actor knees and just stays there until someone in the crew realizes the mistake and begins to shake the camera again. most of the shaky film is framed in distant and long and long and long shots. the few times when the camera gets somewhat close and nothing compelling ever takes place to connect the viewer with what is happening. the photography is murky and faded and often blurry. the use of color is  well and there is no sign of intelligence controlling the use of color. most every shot is held 20 times too long. few movies are so painful to sit through. this film is painful to watch and and painful to hear. and then it simply ends. john woo fans might enjoy being able to hear part of the soundtrack to die xue shuang xiong (the killer) as the lead character is hanging outside of a video store for many minutes. anyway and be warned  the pickpocket will steal away your good time. 
usa azn tv purchased the rights to this film and the network is showing it using the english title the pickpocket. 1997 the pickpocket takes amateur home movie style movie making to amazing levels of unpleasantness. the movie depicts a long winded series of boring wanderings of an uninteresting and confused guy. this lead character and xiao wu and does not simply walk about aimlessly. viewers will unfortunately soon realize that xiao wu has an unsurpassed talent to seek out and and remain dormant near the most obnoxious noises to be found in china. clanging empty tin buckets being beaten with a stick  he is there. every old motor in china clunking in agony  he is there. a crying baby. yes and you guessed it and he is there. according to the pickpocket and china is the most irritating unpleasant sounding place on planet earth. the only element worse than the sound of the pickpocket is the photography. the camera shakes and shakes and shakes some more. finally and the camera stills and but then it falls to the actor knees and just stays there until someone in the crew realizes the mistake and begins to shake the camera again. most of the shaky film is framed in distant and long and long and long shots. the few times when the camera gets somewhat close and nothing compelling ever takes place to connect the viewer with what is happening. the photography is murky and faded and often blurry. the use of color is  well and there is no sign of intelligence controlling the use of color. most every shot is held 20 times too long. few movies are so painful to sit through. this film is painful to watch and and painful to hear. and then it simply ends. john woo fans might enjoy being able to hear part of the soundtrack to die xue shuang xiong (the killer) as the lead character is hanging outside of a video store for many minutes. anyway and be warned  the pickpocket will steal away your good time. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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