dyeing workshop, providing an optimal stage for the use of images and colors. The dyed cloth hanging from the sky seems to be an infinite bondage to the emotions of Azure and Judou. This bondage not only symbolizes Yang Jinshan's oppression, but also symbolizes the ruthless suppression of human nature by feudal social ethics.
When the emotions of the two finally broke out, Zhang Yimou once again used red to present us with a very cathartic visual experience. The bright red dyed cloth hung high and quickly leaked into the dyeing pond, becoming the passionate passion of Azure and Judou. Visual metaphor.
Echoing the colorful colors of the dyeing workshop is the cold depression of the overall tone of the film. In one of the overhead shots of the night view of the dyeing workshop, the surrounding houses are so dark that people can breathe breathlessly. Only the warmth of Judou’s house reveals the characters’ inner desires and the suppression of the environment on the screen. .
In the film, the master of dyeing workshop Yang Jinshan is a representative of cruel feudal forces, but the cannibalistic nature of feudal ethics will not end because of his death. This is vividly expressed in the "blocking the coffin" full of ritual sense. Tianqing and Judou were pulled under Yang Jinshan's coffin time and time again. Zhang Yimou used Yang Jinshan’s coffin to look extremely huge from the perspective of shooting upside down. Sitting on the top of the coffin was their son Tianbai. Together with Yang Jinshan’s coffin, he seemed to have turned into a cruel feudal secular ethics, turning the sky green. He Judou is deeply pressed under his feet, and at the same time heralds that their tragic fate has been ruthlessly inherited from generation to generation in Tianbai.
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