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film "Ju Dou" is adapted from the novella "Fu Xi Fu Xi" by the famous writer Liu Heng. The profoundness and helplessness of the feudal ethics described in the film makes people sigh endlessly. In the heavy and broken, they experience the women under the feudal ethics. The fate and hardships of life.
First of all, let's talk about director Zhang Yimou. Look at "Heroes", "House of Flying Daggers" and "Golden Armor in the City". We are helpless to find that after entering the 21st century, Zhang Yimou is more like a businessman waiting for a price. Filming is no longer based on the exploration of humanistic spirit and artistic expression. Even in the constant condemnation from critics and audiences, he still frequently makes the marriage and conspiracy of film and business in full swing. Fortunately, at the beginning of his directing, films such as "Ju Dou", "Raise the Red Lantern", and "The Lawsuit of Qiu Ju" established his status in the Chinese and even world film circles.
Based on "Judou", as he himself said: "The filming of "Judou" is the first time for me to switch from the photographer's point of view to the director's point of view. This film is of epoch-making significance for me." Indeed, From "Judou", we can clearly see Zhang Yimou's unique talent as a director. The strong visual impact generated by the perfect combination of color and light and shadow, coupled with the unhurried development of the story, presents us with A delicate and perfect work of art.
Judou——Like Song Lian in Su Tong's "Wives and Concubines", Xiao Ai in Zhang Ailing's "Xiao Ai", and Fan Yi in Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm", women with characteristics of era, characteristic environment and specific background, who There are too many things on their backs. Intangible and tangible pressure makes them often unable to help themselves in life, and their fate is in the hands of others. struggle. Judou, as such a woman, a woman who was imprisoned and oppressed by feudal ethics, can still live a bright and moving life without succumbing to her own destiny, like a butterfly wrapped in a thick thick cocoon and ready to fly, all the time. Reserve strength for flying out of the cage.
Yang Jinshan, the owner of the dyeing workshop in this southern town, as a townsman living in a closed family according to the ancestral rules of generations, he spends his days peacefully and rigidly. He does not know what is wonderful life and what is love. With romance, he has only one belief: unfilial piety has three, no descendant is great. Like a miser, when he was approaching his sixtieth year, he only worried about one problem: that no one would take care of Nuoda's family business. Two wives, two flower-like lives withered, the woman in front of him was arbitrarily slaughtered like an animal, until she died tragically. Married for the third time, facing Judou, who is nearly 30 years younger than him, he has no compassion at all. Apart from venting his incompetence on her every night, all he can do is pray sincerely in front of the ancestral tablet. You can keep the incense alive.
Yang Tianqing, Yang Jinshan's nephew, the man in the dye house, was adopted by his uncle since he was a child. He was afraid, cowardly, and thief. The man who was nearly forty was still alone, facing his aunt, Judou, every night. With a piercing cry, facing the scars on his aunt's body that he peeked into every day, as a bloody man, all he could do was to show her full of sympathy and pity for her. A substantive step, dare not touch the feudal ethics that people respect.
The weak heart, swimming in the dark, needs a crossbar that floats by accident, or a fishing fire that is accidentally lit. For Judou, Yang Tianqing is her protector, the life-saving straw for her to get rid of the devil's clutches, so she chose to take the initiative to attack. Seeing Yang Tianqing's forbearance of love for her, she deliberately provoked it, hugged it, and embraced it. At the moment of Yang Tianqing, what she felt was not only the comfort of the body, but also the reward of the world to her. Finally, in her suffering life, there will be a man who will rescue her and save herself from this dire situation. Going as usual, she also wants to compete in this game. Yang Jinshan's accidental paralysis, this man who abused her like a devil in her mind finally got the end he deserved. He thought that he could live happily with Yang Qingshan, but Unexpectedly, she chose the wrong man. This man was too cowardly and incompetent. To a certain extent, it became another constraint for her to break out of the cocoon and seek a new life and a new life.
Just like Chen Jialuo to Huo Qingtong, and Yang Yuncong to Feihongjin, men and women who are not in the same class at all, love is more sad than no love. Life is originally a coexistence of hell and heaven. A step forward and a step back may cause the distance between them to be close to the horizon. "Take Tianbai, let's go together." The repeated and even pleading tone of voice exchanged only Yang Tianqing's silence and delay. After all, this man could not bring her the happiness that a complete and normal family should have.
Yang Tianbai——As the crystallization of Judou and Yang Tianqing's love that violated the rules of ethics, what he brought to this love was not sweetness and happiness, but only a shuddering sense of fear, growing up in a family relationship with resentment and distortion , lacking the innocence and cuteness of children of the same age, the gloomy and surly he is like another replica of Yang Jinshan, his soul is cold, there is no warmth in him, there is no innocence that a child should have, and even the most basic human nature is distorted , is undoubtedly the next downright sacrifice of feudal ethics.
Four people, spanning three generations, staged the most cruel and ruthless tragedy in life. Tianbai's "father" saved his own life, and let Yang Jinshan, who was trying to kill him, show mercy and face this name. In the face of this father who is recognized by the public opinion, even though he has a loud call of "Daddy" and "Daddy" due to the influence of the environment, he still has no tenderness at all, and he dyes flowers for him in the face of "Daddy". Accidentally fell into the dye pool, he didn't help, but stood by indifferently, like watching a drama, seeing "Daddy" struggling and asking for help, but in exchange for his smile, that kind of giggling is self-conscious. It never appeared when I was a child, but the irony is that at such a moment, it came to be so chilling, what kind of twisted soul should be hidden under such an indifferent heart.
Faced with the gossip of his neighbors and the love affair between Yang Tianqing, whom he had called his "older brother" since he was a child, and his mother, he couldn't bear it, and he chased the spreader with a murderous knife. Running up a few streets, he saw his "brother" and his mother cheating in a cellar with thin air. After rescuing his dying mother, he dragged his "brother" without hesitation, who was actually his father's The man, threw him into the dye pond, saw his struggle, survival, and heard his mother's bitter howl, he didn't stop there, and went down with a stick. For this kind of retribution, the son, who was supposed to be filial to his relatives, gave his biological father the cruelest and most unexpected punishment. Like a judge of feudal ethics, he gave his father a death sentence without the slightest chance to appeal.
The silent waterwheel in the dyeing workshop, the hanging fabrics after dyeing, Jinshan's stern look, Judou's shrill cry, Tianbai's indifferent eyes, Tianqing's cowardice... All of this is accompanied by a handful of Judou The fire turned to ashes in an instant, all the sins, all the love and hatred, burnt away in this fire, and only Judou's desperate and empty eyes remain in me for a long time under the light of the torches. lingering in the heart.
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