red and cold

Melany 2022-03-24 09:03:36



It's great to be free to write about your own life!


Song Lian, with a braided plait, wearing a school uniform, and carrying a small box, approached the Chen family compound alone. Outside the painting is the welcome song blown by the suona, and the empty mansion is like a yellowish gray old photo embedded in the screen, so unfathomably still.

"Foreign student" Song Lian is about to have a new identity - the fourth concubine of the Chen family, she has to choose this kind of life, but she has the right to choose not to sit in a sedan chair. The conflict started like this at the beginning of the film. And Gong Li's interpretation is to inject spiritual energy and add luster.

Think, who is Songlian's enemy? Maid Yan'er? Third aunt? Second aunt? Or Mr. Chen, who only heard his voice but didn't see anyone? The grievances and grievances in the house are just a microcosm of the struggle for survival among living creatures on earth. It was just that era that gave tragedy a broader breeding ground. Women, whether they are defenders of feudal ideology or foreign students who have received ideological enlightenment education, must fight against an invisible shackle. The hope of winning is extremely slim, and losing their life and being a doll is their fate.

In this way, Songlian authenticated a tragedy in the house and customized her own tombstone.

Her gibberish after drinking sent the third concubine away, making the mysterious cabin on the roof the final stage for the third concubine. I often think that Sanyitai is doomed to doom, it's just a matter of sooner or later, she is still happy and free in the drama.

The maid Yan'er was a complete victim, she had a nightmare for herself as a concubine. She lit the worn, mended lantern in her house, imagining herself like the concubines. However, all this was like her pedantic and ignorant heart, which was annihilated with the lantern with a fire.

What kind of person is the second aunt? A poor and hateful person, a person who can play the rules of the game with ease, a person who will always have only enemies and no friends, a certain kind of person who will never disappear and always exist. She is absolutely dangerous, meet, please detour.

As for the auntie, the film must want to tell us that even if the old wall clock on the wall does not go away, let it hang on it. If you don't listen to it, it's fine to have a thought, after all, it has beaten with the pulse of history.

Speaking of Mr. Chen, Zhang Yimou's storytelling is really beautiful. In these more than 100 minutes of pictures, he gave Mr. Chen the most distinctive image, but it was the most authoritative and the most important plot and characters that could not be ignored. He is the god of that era!

Watching the housekeeper in charge of and blowing the lamp, I have gained insight outside the screen. There are also well-placed Peking Opera arias interspersed with the big red lanterns and the white snow, forming an unforgettable film business card, meaning that it reaches the hearts of the audience.

The big red lantern is lit, and it will go out after all. Those women who encounter "blocking lights", like Song Lian, will almost go crazy in the end. Unless they really don't see anything, "you don't see anything, you're just crazy".

At the end of the film, a clever and beautiful jab is covered. When Song Lian entered the Chen family compound, she made a dazzling comparison. The fifth concubine was sitting in a decent sedan chair, and the hilarious welcome song was not far away, but wrapped the whole picture. Under the hood was a beautiful woman's face. Everyone knows that this face in the future will definitely no longer be this face. .

Is Song Lian really crazy? But she is free. She had her braids again, wearing that hopeful student uniform, just wandering, wandering!

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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.