Subtle Chinese Feudal Horror

Llewellyn 2022-04-23 07:04:35

When I was a child, I didn't understand the movie and it was very shocking to watch it. This time, I wanted to give it 10 stars. Strong sense of form and symbolism, excellent composition and color matching. It is also a female elegy of the times, the epitome of feudal society. Whether it's the four concubines or the maids, they are all very tragic representatives... It's really wonderful that the master's face is hardly photographed. To the places where the other side shots are not directly presented, it is absolutely amazing. Except for the first few minutes, the rest were all filmed in the confinement mansion... All women are imprisoned in this mansion for the rest of their lives, and their fate is no longer their own. Life and vanity go for lighting, and lighting is a favorable bait. Lighting and beating feet and a series of rules in the house really give people a very strange sense of age, revealing inexplicable horror.

The restoration of the era of the movie is really powerful. The quaint stone road actually has nothing, empty rooms and unclean shoes. The composition is also very exquisite, Zhang Yimou is the best, and it is worthy of being supervised by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The characters are also very three-dimensional, and have given up seeing through the eldest wife who is indifferent to the world. The smiling tiger looks gentle and pure but is actually the worst second wife. The real and hearty struggle is the famous third wife who can sing and sing. The fear is that she has knowledge but will be banned. In the imprisonment of feudal patriarchy, the heart is higher than the sky, but the life of the fourth wife is thinner than the paper... Hey, my father died, I can't even go to school, I can only marry an old man twice my size, and finally I can only give in Yu fate, only 19 years old. Yan'er wanted to climb up, but couldn't achieve it. She could only pass the blame on the fourth concubine, but she was stubborn and did not admit her wrong. In the end, she became a victim. When the maid died, the family couldn't do anything, and the life of the poor was worthless. This old man is possessive and controlling, cruel to everyone, and only loves himself as the representative of feudal patriarchy.

Every time the camera looks down on the roof, it gives people a very serious sense of depression, the feeling that people can't get out... That kind of powerlessness that can't do anything, there is also a sense of desolation and sadness in the roof and attic. The house of the dead on the roof is really terrifying... It's even more terrifying if it is not portrayed directly... It's a real psychological shadow, a man can have three wives and four concubines, and a woman will be hanged if she cheats. Men can play outside and do business outside, and women are married and spend their whole lives in the yard. How boring is life in the compound... Seeing these farce and tragedies, the eldest young master can only turn his head and leave... Doctor Gao can't do anything when he sees a good friend being killed... Rich people can kill people at will...

In the heavy snow, the third wife died and the fourth wife went crazy. She did something for Mei Shan in her own way... Then the summer, autumn, winter and spring passed, and another spring came again... The new concubine came, and four more During the season, the lights are turned off, the lights are turned off, and the lights are sealed... And the old lady in the house and the rest of the people are expressionless from beginning to end. Speaking of the fourth wife, it seems like a legend that happened a long time ago...

I really want to hammer feet~ The real desire of hammer feet is obvious. Inexplicably like the third aunt. Humans and ghosts are just one breath away. People are nothing in this courtyard. The soundtrack is excellent, Gong Huang's acting skills are slay. He Saifei really didn't. This movie really gives people a very strong stamina... The gloomy and gloomy atmosphere can be called a Chinese horror movie

The man-eating compound and the suffocating feeling of closing the courtyard have devoured Song Lian's lofty and lofty nature that originally ran counter to the sedan chair. When she entered the compound, she began to participate in the intrigue. Burning the flute also swallowed up Song Lian's resistance and freedom.

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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.