About composition
Symmetrical composition, whether it is houses, bricks, lanterns, red posters, all show the neat and tidy old house of the Chen family and the unchanging ancient rules of the Chen family, giving people a very depressing feeling
About color
The grey tiles, white painted walls, with some simple characters and paintings, the red lanterns are particularly conspicuous, and the servants are dressed in all black clothes, as if the entire Chen Family Courtyard is the master's erotic palace, the so-called wife, "It's just the master's clothes, you can wear it if you want, take it off if you don't want to"
About characters
1. Song Lotus
Song Lian, a female college student, dropped out of school after her father died and was sold by her stepmother. After that, apart from the flute and student clothes, which are the only symbols of past memories in the story, there is no information about the past, as if the past of this person is not important at all, the important thing is that he married from a long distance, and it was thrown out. Water, what is it, what does it matter?
"In this family, I'm like a dog, like a cat, like a mouse, thinking about everything, but not like a human being."
Ironically, being sold can choose to be a rich "auntie" or a "new wife" of an ordinary family .
Song Lian once maintained a dry and cracked character, but after a long time, in all kinds of rules, people are not like people, become wives and concubines who fight with others, "wives" who fight with servants, right and wrong, all around the master, Everything, every move, is all for the master, all want to light that lantern, and beat his feet.
Song Lian didn't care about this at first, but later, she began to look forward to it, especially when she heard the sound of hammering feet.
From here, after her flute was "burned", Songlian completely became the fourth wife, destined to be the beginning of the tragedy, destined to never escape from this house.
2. The Chen family butlers and the master
From the beginning to the end, this group of people is all black, on the surface they look like people, but in fact they are completely faceless creatures. Just live, no matter whether it is about killing people or the Chen family's big or small matters, they don't judge. Unlike the wives, a servant is really just a servant, just like a dog. What reason do you talk to him, as long as you don't want them life, can continue to work for you.
The master is even more extreme, he has not even shown his face once, the master is the emperor. Enjoying three wives and six concubines, being able to turn on the lights, turn off the lights, seal the lights, and even take your life easily.
On the surface, he is the master of an ordinary wealthy family, but in fact, he is more a symbol of all the wealthy and powerful people who cover the sky with one hand. the palace.
3. The Third Wife
Mei Shan is an opera singer, who was once a hit and even recorded a record. He Songlian is actually a kind of person who is engaged in knowledge and art. But it didn't work. Because society does not need women to work, female students say it nicely, but in fact, in this feudal society, it is still a business. No matter how well you sing opera, it is always a woman, and a woman is an object in the context of the times. Thinking of Lao She's "Divorce", the woman in it is just a slave. In the movie, a woman is just a sexual tool, a machine for giving birth to children.
"It's only a breath between people and ghosts. People are ghosts, and ghosts are people."
The tragedy of Mei Shan and Song Lian is that they are restless, they want intelligence, they want reason, they want to fly out of the cage, and they want to have fun outside the world of the master. Their ending was tragic, one was caught raped and then committed suicide, the other went mad.
4. In fact, there is another tragic figure, that is the maid Yan'er.
She is actually very much like Zhang Ailing's "The Resentful Girl", reduced to a plaything for the master. Not only that, but unlike the resentful woman, she chose power and wealth, chose to be close to the master, and desperately wanted to be loved by the master. Madam, this is her tragedy. Behind her, she squatted under the snow and watched the red lantern burn. Her heart died. She changed from a servant girl to a victim of the master, to a maid who sacrificed in a calculation. Later, she squatted on the snow, frozen to death, and the road had frozen bones. It was ridiculous to say that people died, and in the Chen family, they were just dead. The servants gossip a few words, because it is also about their fate. The wives didn't even care, and the master actually only cared about sending her to the hospital, so as not to ruin the reputation of the Chen family.
As for why it is so difficult to get along with the fourth wife Song Lian, it is actually a point of this movie, that is, there are only four rooms. After being ravaged by the master, I thought that I could get the identity of the fourth wife by rhetoric, so when the fourth wife appeared , she hates, hates why it's not her, but another woman, she hates too much, but she loves, loves the master, loves the identity of the fourth wife, if there is not much upper house, why not order it in the house of her own lantern?
It is estimated that this is also related to the instigation of the second wife, the second wife is that kind of disgusting smiling tiger! At the beginning, I thought that the eldest wife was Song Lian living in this house, the biggest misfortune, but after seeing this old antique's face, an old antique who has long since seen the world.
5. People are sometimes scarier than they think.
It's not easy being a person. Sometimes, in an inescapable environment, people are twisted into human-skinned creatures without humanity.
Yan'er, in order to obtain the status of the fourth wife that she should have obtained, cruelly cast a poisonous curse on Songlian, who has no injustice and no hatred.
Second wife, give the third wife the abortion pill
On the wedding day, the third wife was dressed in red and purple, and even robbed people during the wedding
The eldest lady appeared to be alive, but was actually dead. It's just the maintainer of the rules, meaningless and meaningful.
And Songlian, a female college student, became a lunatic in the end, why?
Because she hurt the second wife, killed Yan'er, and killed Mei Shan.
"She didn't mean it," she said. "She didn't kill it." "
When Yan'er died, she said so
"It's all life." The old servant replied with a meaningful sentence.
This is life, but don't you know that the most terrible thing is not to kill a person, but to let a person's heart die? And when Yan'er knelt on the snow and fainted, she didn't spare her, and she didn't "get someone to forgive me, and forgive me."
Then there's Mei Shan, it's so good, you're drunk, and you want to talk about the third wife's secret? It's just hate, hate yourself, you can't get a master, and you can't get a "lover". She has nothing, hates people better than her, gets the master's second wife, and gets Dr. Gao's third wife.
Feipu was actually just the last fantasy in her heart. She was a student, and she was the only seed left in her heart after Chen's family was influenced by feudalism.
In the end, after she sobered up, after she got angry, and when she was a little bit human, she finally understood what she had done. She hated everything here, and she hated herself, so she went crazy.
In fact, it's better to be crazy to die than to live
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