Narrated by Western values, the original novel was born during the Great Depression in the United States. This film (the popularity of this novel) is more of a curiosity, that is, Americans' curiosity about China, just like the Chinese films of the 1980s and 1990s, which were popular overseas; on the other hand, it is a kind of "will One’s own happiness is built on the suffering of others.” When you are miserable, seeing someone more miserable than yourself, you can’t help but feel a “little good fortune”, just as some Chinese people today take pleasure in laughing at North Korea, India and other countries .
The most unacceptable thing is that white people come to play Chinese, and they play every second. This also reflects the racial discrimination in Hollywood at that time, and I don't believe that Chinese or East Asian faces have good results in American movies.
It is obviously a miserable sale, it is obviously an exposure, the heroine is obviously a poor bastard who is submissive, and the male protagonist is obviously a scumbag.
The female protagonist can kill her own child in order to keep her family alive, but the male protagonist can't even kill a cow, but the female protagonist kills the cow on the spot. There is also land that can be sold to save lives, but stick to "with land, there is hope", is life more important or land (property) important?
What's especially ridiculous is that the heroine who was submissive and the hero who did nothing, finally became famous for a period of time because of a huge windfall. What value is this? Preaching for nothing? In fact, this kind of misery suddenly made a fortune in line with the American psychology at the time. The Great Depression made many people unable to survive, and everyone was eager to get rich overnight and be happy. Even if the novel is just a dream of Nanke, it has created a dream to satisfy the public, so this is one of the reasons why the novel is popular.
Originally, according to American values, the mass revolution seeks new life, and both the heroine and the hero should rise up to fight, and join the torrent of the revolution. But obviously the violent proletarian revolution is not in line with capitalism. Even if you add liberal democracy, people are still afraid. After all, if the Soviet-style revolution spreads globally, the lighthouse state will be endangered.
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