In China, homosexuality isn't illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for "hooliganism".

The film focuses on a young gay writer A-Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself interrogated for a whole night.

His life-story which he tells during the interrogation reflects the general repression of the Chinese society.

The policeman's attitude shifts from the initial revulsion to fascination and, finally, to attraction.

A man tells his lifes story of a gay man in China.

In 1997 the Chinese government put director Yuan Zhang under house arrest and confiscated his passport.

His friends smuggled this movie out of the country so it could be shown at the 1997 Cannes film festival.

I haven't seen this movie yet. My personal opionion will be online as soon as I have seen it personally. 

So check this page for it later.

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