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"Listen, this pig is crying for its life." Ju Dou's words with a weeping voice show the sad fate of the characters in the film, but they are powerless to resist.
The passing of bad luck from generation to generation like the flower of evil will be staged in this big dyeing workshop. The dyeing workshop is like the projection of feudal ethics. Everyone can't do without the dyeing workshop, and they cannot escape the restraint and suppression of ethics.
An extremely indifferent and selfish representative of patriarchal ideology, Yang Jinshan regards "three kinds of unfilial piety, and no future success" as the holy mantra of life, which opened the lock of indecent and terrible fate in this feudal society. Of course, he was both an admirer of feudal ethics and a victim of it. The deep-rooted feudal ideology imprisoned him, making Yang Jinshan exist as both a perpetrator and a victim.
The yellow dyed cloth is set against the chrysanthemum beans also dressed in yellow, and the same is true of the blue dyed cloth. Zhang Yimou's color aesthetics is vividly displayed in this film.
Two "Fatherslaughter" exist as the dramatic climax of the film:
The first time to kill a father was a passive, unconscious act. Tianbai accidentally pulled the "father" (that is, the legal father - Yang Jinshan) in his mouth into the water and completed the first "father murder", watching the "father" struggling in the bright red dyed pond , Tianbai, who has never laughed before, shows a disguised twisted psychology of Tianbai who grew up under the distortion of living conditions since childhood.
The second time to kill the father was an active and inherited father-killing. Under the cry of his mother, Tianbai personally beat his biological father, Yang Tianqing, who wanted to climb up the dyed pond, into the water. At that time, he had become the successor of Yang Jinshan (that is, feudal ethics), and completed the second father-killing for the so-called dignity of the family.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the film, the director of Tianqing introduced red dye into the dye pool, and the director had already foreshadowed that the red signal represented a danger signal, indicating that both father-killings would take place here.
In fact, the most infuriating part of the whole film is that the old Chinese doctor said after diagnosing Judou's infertility, "It's okay, it's easy to worry"
It seems that women must sacrifice the rest of their lives for their deceased husbands, and all this is taken for granted by the world, and they applaud.
The suppression of women under the feudal etiquette shows the level of suffocation. Men can continue to marry new ones, but Ju Dou, such a beautiful and young woman, has to keep the so-called "chasteness" of the world all her life. It is really ridiculous. Women are only men. The tools for venting desire and inheriting the lineage can only get the so-called care and care of men when they are pregnant, and all these benefits come because of their fertility. Otherwise, their lives are not as good as a donkey.
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