Haven For Scams: Hit Movies Further Sour Chinese View Of Southeast Asia
On popular Chinese review site Douban, user Liuyisi said that "Lost In The Stars" involves a missing woman being killed, while "No More Bets" is about her being tricked and kidnapped in Southeast Asia. this district. ?
Another reviewer, SaturnRings, opined that the two films "really do no favors to travel around Southeast Asia."
Lin Mingji, 26, an insurance agent who saw both films in Beijing, said the star's male impotence in "Lost Stars" gave the impression that police in the fictional Southeast Asian country were unreliable.
"I don't think I can trust the local police to help me even if they understand me," said Ms. Lin, who speaks Chinese and English.
Lin said "Lost in the Stars" reminded her of how a Chinese woman was tortured and strangled in a Bali hotel in May by her boyfriend, who was also Chinese, an incident that made headlines for days.
The scariest thing for Lin was the film's anecdote about a woman who fell through a cloakroom hatch at a night market in a Southeast Asian country. Many years later, her husband finds her in a cabaret show with amputated limbs on a business trip to another country in the region.
“When the woman fell out of the hatch, she didn't even have time to scream. - Would I be?
On China's video-streaming platform Bilibili, refugees from Myanmar's scam farms, where their victims are forced to work as scammers, share their experiences of prison brutality. The Chinese embassy in Myanmar said on Saturday that four people suspected of telecom fraud had been returned to China as part of a joint operation with neighboring countries.
