There have been a number of reports of Chinese elementary and middle school students who have been sexually assaulted by teachers and Communist Party officials, but the infamous Hainan rape case is the most obvious analog for this based-on-a-true-story film.
When two young girls are assaulted by a local regime official, the police immediately circle the wagons—protecting the predator, exactly as they did in Hainan. It is not just the girls’ reputations that are at risk. Their very lives will be in danger throughout Vivian Qu’s way-beyond-zeitgeisty “Angels Wear White,” which opens May 4 in New York.
