城市谋杀案-越南
Murder in the City—Vietnam"Murder in the City" is inspired by Cui's real experience of being robbed while traveling in Vietnam. After his camera was robbed, his Vietnamese landlord took him to the local black market to search for stolen goods. In the process, he witnessed many transactions of robbed items. Since then, the author has fallen into deep doubts. After peeling away the strong filter of the tourism industry, some real malice about history, economic development, and human nature comes to light.
The photographic works are edited in paper movie style and intentionally presented in the form of criminal files. This crime newspaper not only contains photos taken by photographers on the streets of Vietnam and novels he wrote based on personal experiences of being robbed, but Cui also translated some real Vietnamese crime incidents into various languages, implying that many other places are shrouded in danger. This pieced together a murder case in Vietnam that is difficult to identify its authenticity.
"Murder" here does not refer to a direct threat to life literally but includes the implicit or explicit persecution of ideals, cognition, love, etc. Under the author's arrangement, the hateful eyes of people in the photos, capitalist symbols, shaky and unsettling lenses, and the text of confirmed criminal incidents together constitute "Murder in the City - Vietnam".