Themes of entrapment, unrequited love and loss penetrate the screen, with Lachman conveying the narrative through a bespoke aesthetic captured on different celluloid formats.

Bob Fu, founder and president of China Aid, argued that Lin’s conviction was a case of entrapment by the Chinese government.

“It’s all about enchantment and entrapment,” she says.

And some of them were entrapment, I would say.

Even if the jury decided he had, it was a case of entrapment.