deliberately built up

Pietro 2022-04-23 07:04:35

8.5 points, overrated. It's too deliberate to portray women's spontaneous power struggles around men. Knocking feet, lighting lanterns, sealing lanterns, houses of the dead hanging over people’s heads, these symbols are all so blunt, as if the deformed human nature under the old social ideology and the fears of women shrouded in invisible pressure were written into big-character posters, Call directly at the person's face, for fear that you won't understand.

In the end, the fourth wife went crazy, which is not in line with the strong character she first entered the compound. She was deliberately crazy to describe the darkness of reality. Force her to end up in a rut.

Excessive force, not like a movie but a stage play, greasy, but not beautiful.

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Extended Reading
  • Wellington 2022-01-26 08:46:31

    How many such distortions of human nature were hidden in old China? The deepest memory is the clanging footsteps.

  • Nora 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    A / A single text is not necessarily without flaws. There are several dramatic conflicts and clues that are set up deliberately, and the narrative of tragic reincarnation is inevitably a bit outdated from the current point of view. However, the regret of the text really proves Zhang Yimou's unparalleled audiovisual control in this work. The inner emotions of the characters are portrayed through a relatively static and stagnant space, which is the first layer of static actuation; and the complex characters' emotions are carried out with a large number of closed compositions, homogeneous color rendering, and a soundtrack of singing and sighing. Containment, which is the second layer of motion froze. The use of sound is particularly precise. The reference to reality and psychological space and the layered and blurred atmosphere rendering make the audience fall into an auditory space that is constantly being called and torn. In contrast, the so-called Chinese-style soundtrack of "Shadow" is really mediocre like a Wuliangye advertisement. / After watching "One Second": Zhang Yimou probably won't be able to make such a work again.

Raise the Red Lantern quotes

  • The Third Concubine: She has the face of Buddha and the heart of a scorpion.

  • 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.