Despite its financial success in China, the plot of Shen Ao’s “No More Bets” hamstrings the social message it wants to get across
Stories of borderland deceit have made frequent headlines in the Chinese media in recent years. Young men and women exchange their meager life savings for the promise of being spirited through the Myanmar jungle to what they believe will be lucrative employment, only to discover that they have been locked into servitude in the industrial-scale scam operations being run south of the border.
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