usa azn tv purchase the right to this film and the network be show it use the english title the pickpocket . 1997 the pickpocket take amateur home movie style movie making to amazing level of unpleasantness . the movie depict a long winded series of boring wandering of an uninteresting and confused guy . this lead character and xiao wu and do not simply walk about aimlessly . viewer will unfortunately soon realize that xiao wu have an unsurpassed talent to seek out and and remain dormant near the most obnoxious noise to be find in china . clang empty tin bucket be beat with a stick he be there . every old motor in china clunking in agony he be there . a cry baby . yes and you guess it and he be there . accord to the pickpocket and china be the most irritating unpleasant sound place on planet earth . the only element bad than the sound of the pickpocket be the photography . the camera shake and shake and shake some more . finally and the camera still and but then it fall to the actor knee and just stay there until someone in the crew realize the mistake and begin to shake the camera again . most of the shaky film be frame in distant and long and long and long shot . the few time when the camera get somewhat close and nothing compelling ever take place to connect the viewer with what be happen . the photography be murky and faded and often blurry . the use of color be well and there be no sign of intelligence control the use of color . most every shot be hold 20 time too long . few movie be so painful to sit through . this film be painful to watch and and painful to hear . and then it simply end . john woo fan might enjoy be able to hear part of the soundtrack to die xue shuang xiong ( the killer ) a the lead character be hang outside of a video store for many minute . anyway and be warn the pickpocket will steal away your good time .