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An essential 5th Generation work released throughout the 2nd phase of Deng Xiaoping's social as well as financial reforms, this robust social witticism fantastically depicts the clash between the climbing course of rapid industrial modernizers and also old Event staffs with a major Cultural Change hangover. The film narrates the Kafkaesque circumstance of a bumbling factory translator who is suspected of industrial reconnaissance after sending out an innocent telegram that is obstructed by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title refers to the missing out on chess piece the hapless hero is trying to situate.) Positioned under investigation and reassigned to a much less sensitive department yet never notified of the factor for his demotion, he requests to get his task back, stimulating an increasingly obtuse and amusing series of Party meetings, embeded in a conference room right out of German Expressionism.