Hanging around the big red man

Casey 2022-04-21 09:03:30

From the very beginning of the film, I discovered the connection between this story and contemporary reality - Song Lian, played by Gong Li, confessed to the camera, seemingly talking to her mother, but actually speaking to thousands of parents who arranged marriages they listen. This is of course not the director's original intention. What the director did is more like putting a vague coat on the imaginary enemy of feudalism and making his body a little bigger, but it is hard for the current audience to watch this paragraph and think of the girl who was forced to marry involuntarily. young people.

The days are like a transition in the film, and the situation seems to have improved, and the situation of Songlian seems to have improved. They are no longer forced to marry into the deep house and become a concubine. The blind date men brought in pick and choose, want to beat their feet to have a machine, want to order food and eat out, and the red lanterns hung high are gone, it seems that the times are progressing. But after thinking about it, I don’t think so. There is no third wife who is singing in front of me. There may be a sing-song mistress in Taipei Pure K, and Zhuo Yun, who has no sweet belly and sword in front of me, but in the vast crowd of marriage and love market, everyone is a cloud, and After living with someone you don't love for many years, the most likely chance is to become a mediocre woman like the eldest wife.

The scope of the story in the film is condensed into a large courtyard, and the conflicts between the rooms are presented on the stage. The tense atmosphere brings strong drama and makes the whole play look good. And life is far more terrifying than a movie. In modern times, the scary thing is that the enemy's trace may be nowhere to be found, and the sense of security around the sweetheart is similar to that of a red lantern.

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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.