Halfway through, I suddenly remembered this question: Why is Zhang Yimou not Lu Xun? Gloomy, oppressive, and humid, this is a certain quality shared by Lu Xun's novels and Zhang Yimou's films. Both have a strong pursuit of color, such as rendering more black and red. The red color of Lu Xun's blood steamed buns is similar to the red color of Dyefang in "Judou".
Another interesting phenomenon is that the two pay attention to sex, or to the fate of women and sexual psychology. I have seen a document saying that the Lu Xun brothers lost their relationship because Yu Taixinzi complained to Zhou Zuoren: Lu Xun peeped at himself. In "Judou," the sexually charged voyeur is amplified to the point of tension. In the basic human nature of the Chinese people, the desire to voyeurize due to repression has always been very strong, peeping at the privacy of others, and voyeurizing on sex.
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