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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