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But are things more straightforward than they appear?

“I wear the foolish, unintelligible face of a professional god.”

Yilong Zhu in Only the River Flows

All of this has to be worth something, right?

The film confronts both our perverse desire for salacious crime stories and our need for logical conclusions.

Zhe is rewarded for his work on the case, but he doesn’t want praise or recognition.

Yilong Zhu in Only the River Flows

There’s no glory in this, the film seems to be telling us.

And not the viewer, either.

Only the River Flows arrives in UK cinemas on August 16.

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