BIFF Movie #7 - A Touch of Sin

This is a difficult movie to review (especially now so long after attending BIFF) so I'll keep it short.  This movie is actually four short stories woven into one larger movie, with no real connection between them and even the underlying theme is barely felt.  The movie is set in modern day China and from the blurb read in the Film Festival guide it was trying to deal with a sense of alienation and the struggle of the underclass against pointless lives, erupting in random violence.  However, just because you feel annoyed at the repetitiveness of your work or bosses or the big company you work for, or your lover who won't leave their husband, or your inability to keep and hold a job, that doesn't excuse the violence portrayed here which are largely senseless murders.  The movie was too long, slow and could not keep up the drama which was set up quite well in the first story but drifts into nothingness as the film progresses.  I walked out feeling like it was a waste of a movie ticket as I got nothing out of the film at all.