The Wild Goose Lake, a new film by DIAO Yi’nan who introduced the world of stylish crime films through Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014), winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, is a more formalistic and an emotional new noir genre film. After accidentally killing a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on Zenong Zhou and he is being pursued by both the police and the gangsters. He heads to a crowed vacation spot “Wild Goose Lake” where he meets a woman who claims that she is here to help him. The pouring rain, the moist air, the primary colors on the characters, the contrast of intense light and shadow are used as a tool not only to flaunt the style, but also to reveal the cracks of polarized Chinese society. [MOON Seok]