When Jinshan brutally abused Judou, I think I found the villain I was looking for. So, when he unknowingly raised an outsider's son, I felt a thrill of revenge; when he broke his leg in the woods, I hoped he would die; when he tried to burn Judou and Tianbai , I hope he dies in the fire first.
However, he changed from strong to weak, from abuser to victim. I suddenly found that I didn't have the thrill of revenge, but instead, there were waves of sadness.
Jinshan never told outsiders about the fornication between the two, and he didn't even tell anyone from the Yang family. He didn't want his reputation to be ruined. Once he said it, everyone would know that his wife, Hong Xing, was out of the wall, and Tian Bai was not his biological son. It was a shame, worse than his death. So he could only endure it.
He felt a strong sense of joy when he called his father that day. This kind of happiness comes from two kinds of psychology, one is the joy of getting a son from old age, although the son is not his, but he recognizes him as a father, providing him with the satisfaction of a father role; the second is the satisfaction of revenge . He had no way of getting revenge on them, but their son took him as his father. The revenge is more complete.
At the family banquet celebrating Tianbai's three-year-old, Jinshan and Tianqing were Tianbai's two fathers, one laughed and the other cried; the fake father laughed and the biological father cried. This has to be said to be a frustrating relationship. At this point, Jinshan seems to have won another "victory", but I, as an audience, are no longer happy or angry, just sad.
Tianbai is a strange boy who seems to be particularly sensitive to parental relationships since he was a child. At just three years old, he realized that Tian Qing had an unusual relationship with his mother and intended to avoid it. Then, he would throw stones at the place where the two had an affair (Tianqing's house) to express his dissatisfaction. At this time, his mother gave him a slap. Instead of stopping his hatred, the slap intensified it. He identified his father as Jin Shan, but indirectly caused Jin Shan's drowning. During the whole play, Tian Bai had a straight face and hardly showed a smile. The only time I laughed was when Jinshan was drowning. His father's struggle before his death was regarded as a funny play, which implied Tianbai's deformed psychology. Compared to Tian Qing's livid face when he drowned, it makes people shudder.
But Tianbai is not a villain either. He is just a deformed product of a deformed family. And this deformed family is the deformed "ancestral old rules", that is, the product of feudal society. "Old rules" allow the sale of daughters-in-law, husbands to madly abuse their wives, and even women to be maimed to death. "Old rules" require that the wife of the deceased should not remarry to show her virtuousness. The "old rules" also require that the deceased's wife and nephew must block the coffin forty-nine times. When the patriarch expressed his position, he repeated "according to the old rules of the ancestors" many times, and crowned it with high-sounding decorations, such as Zhenlie and filial piety, which made people want to laugh, but they couldn't. So, after the forty-nine times of blocking the coffin, the two should have laughed because all the nightmares were over, but they each cried in despair.
Poor Tianqing and Judou are not the same kind of people. He was just a star of hope for Judou to escape from suffering, but he did not have the courage to lead her to escape. The biggest characteristic of Tian Qing is obedience and cowardice. Although his sexual instinct makes him do injustice, it does not make him feel responsible. Judou wanted to leave many times, but was discouraged by Tianqing. The most obvious place where the difference between them is exposed is in the scene where he is convinced that Judou killed Jinshan. At this time, his ignorance and cowardice were nakedly displayed: he squatted on the ground, only panic and complaining, but no understanding and courage.
However, Judou still thanked him and loved him. Maybe she didn't have the courage to break through the shackles, so she didn't leave him. Therefore, she has been staying here, even though this dye house has given her too many nightmares, she still stayed for Tianqing who could not step out. What she finally chose was to die in the cellar with Tian Qing. She doesn't care. Since the days are getting harder and harder, and the only person who can save her has chosen death, then she will go with him.
It is a pity that the tragic ending of the two seems to be too happy and unreachable to even die in love. Tianbai created by their evil fate, the contradiction between Ji Ren finally broke out. In the end, Judou, who had no love for life, did not choose to die quietly. She chose to burn down this dye house, which seemed to embody her lifelong desire: to burn the rule that she could be bullied as a woman, to burn the rule of husband and wife without freedom, to burn the rule of inheriting the family's greatest responsibility, to burn and kill The rules of love, burn all the sins that stifle human liberty. She held the torch, and there was no sadness or satisfaction in her eyes, only the dazedness reflected by the raging flames.
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