There are mainly three male characters in the film: the master, the young master and the doctor. But the only person who basically did not show his face in the whole film was the master, the master with the most power in the Xiguan compound. According to the marriage customs at the time, three wives and four concubines were allowed, so the male protagonist was the protagonist of this marriage drama, and Why is such an important character not even showing his face in this ironic film?
My thinking is this, the master's facelessness means that the feudal marriage satirized in this film does not specifically refer to what happened in the compound, it is not a biography, the master's facelessness is on the contrary. This kind of general refers to the men of that era. In that era, men were superior to women. Women in that era were born with the fate of being male slaves. Their marriages were not up to them. Their marriages and fates themselves were a kind of sacrifice, just like at the end of the film, played by Gong Li. The fourth wife is crazy, the master will not feel sorry for it at all, and it is logical to marry the fifth wife. Men of that era generally regarded women as a kind of consumer goods. Since men all have this kind of virtue, there is no need to be precise about who belongs to which man when writing their stories.
Why are the roles of the doctor and the eldest young master "head and face"?
Doctor first. The doctor's setting in the film is to elope with the third wife who is good at singing, and the doctor is not married, let alone three wives and four concubines. Since he eloped with the third wife, it means that the two of them truly love each other. The doctor may not have the same family background, money and power as the master, but she still chooses to run away with him. It can be seen that the doctor is the third wife's choice, not like she married the master to sacrifice herself for profit.
The line between the eldest young master and the fourth wife is mainly based on the unrealistic affection between the two. The unrealistic is not based on age, but on seniority and portal. According to the seniority, the fourth wife is of the same generation as the eldest young master's mother; according to the door, it would be considered that the master did not marry the fourth wife. Although she was a good match in age, her birth was not worthy of the eldest young master. Therefore, it is unrealistic to say that their relationship is unrealistic, but they have met several times alone in the film, and each meeting feels like a rendezvous between a young man and a woman. Yes, similar to the relationship between the third wife and the doctor.
Now let's analyze why the roles of the doctor and the eldest young master are "heads and faces", because the two men symbolized the few "abnormalities" in the male group in the society at that time who gave dignity to women, they were very precious, and they would love them deeply The wives you choose will give them dignity and decency, which is completely different from those men who can't show their faces and treat women as a pastime. They can be said to be rare exceptions, not common, and only a handful of them in that era, so They are revealing.
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