Raise the Red Lantern Comments

  • Blanche 2022-03-22 09:02:50

    "Lighting the lights, turning off the lights, sealing the lights" is undoubtedly a tragedy for women in that era. This is a film without spring. The atmosphere in the film reveals Songlian's helplessness, fear and despair. In the end, she was persecuted by feudal ethics. Crazy, only her madness means she returns to her true self, but she can no longer get out of the square Chen family compound. In the film, a child mispronounced one of Ouyang Xiu's poems as "Not as good as the world." Free cry"...

  • Jeffrey 2022-03-22 09:02:50

    Being a concubine is a concubine, and being a woman is like...

  • Rasheed 2022-03-21 09:03:16

    The big red lantern is hung there, and the master will go to this house to rest at night! Oh, what a pity! The sorrow of polygamy! If you figure it out, you can entertain yourself, if you don't figure it out, you can only be buried by the...

  • Raina 2022-03-21 09:03:16

    The master who never has a frontal camera, Songlian who never smiles, the loneliness on the roof that never dies, and the spring that never comes. How could Su Tong change so...

  • Anabel 2022-03-21 09:03:16

    The lens is beautiful to the extreme, and the story is extremely sad. Different people, the same fate, fortunately the feudal society of "cannibalism" has gone...

  • Jedidiah 2022-03-21 09:03:16

    Chinese classic movies, how pathetic women are! The shouts in memory: ...the courtyard lights...

  • Pete 2022-03-20 09:02:55

    The attitude of the third wife is most...

  • Conrad 2022-03-20 09:02:55

    The neat and symmetrical picture aesthetics itself is like the so-called rules of feudal patriarchal law. Symbolic metaphors are overwhelming. The narration of the national teacher at that time was really concise, and a lot of content was directly explained with red lanterns and...

  • Alessandro 2022-03-20 09:02:55

    Zhang Yimou's masterpiece, Venice Silver Lion Award. ① A very formal and symbolic, secluded and closed deep house compound, lights are blown and sealed, and dishes are ordered with hammer feet; ② Criticize the traditional feudal system, male supremacy, intrigue and mutual calculation; ③ Strong colors, from red and bright lanterns to gloomy The weird black lanterns, from the dark blue brick wall to the white snow; ④ the Beijing opera lyrics and the ethereal soundtrack;...

  • Jana 2022-03-20 09:02:55

    The snow is falling and the ancient city is nowhere to be found, and the deep-walled compound has to hold the lights. Three wives and four concubines died in the well, which is suspected to be the sound of Hongyan's...

Extended Reading

Raise the Red Lantern quotes

  • The Third Concubine: Good or bad, it's all playacting. If you act well, you can fool other people; if you do it badly, you can only fool yourself, and when you can't even fool yourself, you just can fool the ghosts.

  • Yan'er: Who are you?

    Housekeeper: Fourth mistress, please come inside.

    Yan'er: [losing her cool] So you're the fourth mistress!

    [Yan'er rudely pulls the water bowl away from Songlian and puts clothes in it]

    Songlian: Yes! I am the fourth mistress. Bring my suitcase inside please.