The Double - Official Teaser Trailer | Wu Jinyan/Wang Xingyue | YOUKU
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We've got a couple of women who have been victimized by powerful scumbags operating within the Emperor's circle, so everything is political and every word is analyzed for hidden meanings and potential traps. One of the women dies and the other decides to take her place. Since the dead woman has been gone from the capital for ten years and she left when she was a kid, no one really knows what she looks like, so with excellent coaching from her maid, the double is able to pass herself off as the absent woman. Our girl was supposedly murdered by her husband who was being threatened with the lives of the rest of his family. We've got a real snake's nest here, but our girl has had her eyes opened and she is pretty sharp, so you know revenge is coming.
The acting is a little crude, but I suppose when your audience is peasants you want to make things obvious, and that they do. Of course, since we are in the very uppermost level of society, there are fabulous clothes and ridiculous rules governing behavior down to how you say good morning. Very much like an English drawing room, but in Mandarin.
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