The lantern of success, the lantern of failure

Chris 2022-03-26 09:01:13

"It really doesn't matter if the lights are turned on, turned off, or blocked. I just don't understand. In this courtyard, people are like dogs, cats, and mice. They are all like people, but they are not like people."
—— Songlian
lights up the lamp, which symbolizes status at home. The more times the master goes, the more times the lamp is lit. The longer the time, the higher the status; when the lamp is turned off, the master leaves; when the lamp is closed, it means that the master will never Will go again, the status will become low, and the servants will not give a good look.
The simple point of the movie is the story of a group of women calculating each other in order to compete for the favor of men. Although Songlian disdains it, some things are out of your hands, you will be changed, just as Mr. Darwin said, "survival of the fittest". When you come to the mansion, you have to join this war and make sure you can win, otherwise you will not be able to survive forever in the mansion.
The master of the mansion is brilliant, and the brilliant thing is the hammer foot of the second aunt Cao, because only which hospital lights up can enjoy this kind of treatment, and this kind of hammer foot once you want to have a second time, and a third time. Second, it's like taking drugs. If you don't do it for a day, you will feel uncomfortable. This indirectly contributes to the situation where the wives of several rooms are fighting between each other, and the fate of these few people seems to be under the master's control.
The person who can stab you in the back may be the person you normally think is good to you. This was my first impression of watching the show. The second wife, Zhuo Yun, took advantage of Yan'er's dissatisfaction with the fourth wife, wrote Yan'er's "villain" needles, gave the third wife an abortion pill, and administered foreign labor injections, including a sinister smile at the fourth wife when she kidnapped the third wife later. Murder is invisible, and it is inevitable that the third wife will say that she has a bodhisattva face and a scorpion heart, and she is not her opponent. She did not let anyone seize the handle that the master could convict her, and she was the victor among the four.
Maid's wife dream. Yan'er is the dumbest character in it, because she doesn't hide her emotions. She feels that after sleeping with the master a few times, she becomes honorable and can be a wife. If you don't take good care of the fourth wife, you are always rude, and you will spit on your wife's clothes when washing clothes. The house is full of red lanterns. Now the word is obscenity. Because of this, she attached to the second wife and wanted to use the fourth wife's fake pregnancy to bring down Songlian, thinking that she would become a wife. As everyone knows, the maid is the maid, and the wife is the wife.
You must know that there must be a woman who will cheat with a man because of loneliness. The relationship between Mrs. 3 and Dr. Gao is only downplayed in the movie. The third wife is also very smart, otherwise the master would not be so accustomed to her, she should be very good at dealing with the master, and it can be inferred that the third hospital is definitely the one that lights up the lights the most times when the fourth wife does not enter the house. The master gave birth to a son, so her status in the government is not low. The woman who sang alone on the roof in a costume in the early morning was also stunned and poignant. She is a sensible person, so she doesn't have much hope for the master, and she also knows that Song Lian belongs to the same kind of person as her, so she dares to say bluntly in front of Song Lian that she is going to find Dr. Gao.
If you still have the thoughts of your student days, then you are destined to not go very far on this road. It all started when Songlian felt that she was being unfairly treated and cheated. Songlian started to fight back, cutting her hair on purpose to cut her second wife Zhuo Yun's ears, pretending to be pregnant (this trick is really not clever, and it is a bit stupid for not handling the items properly. ) was dismantled, so he exposed the incident of the privately lighting lanterns in the house of the maid Yan'er in the mansion. According to the old rules, the lanterns were burned, and Yan'er knelt on the ground until she fainted, and finally died in the hospital. After the lights were closed, he drank alone on his 20th birthday. After drinking, he accidentally told the second wife that the third wife had an affair with Dr. Gao. The third wife was taken to the murder house, and a rope killed her. Song Lian's third wife's matter was also an unintentional loss, and she never imagined that there would be such a consequence. It seemed that Songlian punished all who had hurt her, but she lost control when she saw the third wife hanged. Master Lian asked her, "What did you see, what did you see?" She replied, "You kill, you kill." The master also said to her: "You are crazy, you are crazy, you don't see anything". Later, she created a scene where the third wife's house lights up and sings a show to make others think it's a ghost, to vent her dissatisfaction with the compound. At the end of the movie, the house married a young wife and asked: Who is that? The servant said disdainfully: the former fourth wife, her brain is broken. I saw Song Lian wearing the student uniform she just appeared on the stage, pacing the courtyard blankly... The
courtyard is still the same courtyard, and the wife is no longer the wife of the year.

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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.