"Farewell My Concubine" is a landmark work in Chinese movies, and is even considered by some to be the highest peak of Chinese film culture and art. It spans a long time span of several decades, and it describes not only people, but also the entanglement of emotions, times and destiny. Each of the ten characters in the movie is alive, and it also constitutes the faces of all beings in the next "Farewell My Concubine". At the beginning of the movie
, Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi in their later years came to the deserted Peking Opera Theatre. At this time, their gait and tone were different. Dieyi was calm and Xiaolou was a little bit decadent. The overlord is no longer a king. This paragraph is the wedge of the whole story, but it is also the ending of the story. When the historical spotlight was struck diagonally, the memories slowly unfolded.
Shidouzi Niang Yanhong is the first character to appear on the stage. She takes Xiaodouzi to the troupe and meets a former guest to molest her. Yan Hong pushes the person away in disgust. She didn't want to lose the image of mother in front of her children.
Yanhong wrapped Xiaodouzi tightly. Seeing the troupe performing, Xiaodouzi looked curious, but Yanhong suddenly smiled.
Because she saw these boys jumping and dancing, she seemed to see Xiaodouzi's future. It's not like it is now, wrapped in a cotton jacket, living in a dirty world, pretending to be a girl, not being a man.
Raising a child in a brothel is not so easy. After all, the mother is reluctant to give up, so she pretends to be a girl to raise her eyes. But the child can’t hide his gender when he is older, and sooner or later he will wear help. After the ignorant period, his identity is difficult to conceal and it is difficult to have a relationship with his son. In a dilemma, I had to give him a new place. Where poor people can go, theatrical troupe is the best choice. They can support themselves without being a cow or a horse.
Xiaodouzi was born with six fingers. This is called "Grand Master does not reward rice." The
class leader does not accept, soft grinding is useless, Yan Hong simply heartbroken. Covering Xiaodouzi's face to prevent him from seeing or struggling, his hands are frozen, and his heart is not as cold as Hengxia's heart.
cried and screamed. The ruthless mother sent her son into the theater. The cry of her son fell on deaf ears. The bloody handprint seemed to announce the end of the relationship between mother and child. Take off the warm long gown and quilted jacket, put it on his son,
bowed again to the class leader, and disappeared in the snow...The love between mother and son has come to an end.
In just a few scenes, the image of Beangirl is carved into the bone marrow. She is poor, disrespected, involuntarily struggling, and as a mother, she wants to give her children a better life, and also wants to maintain the dignity and dignity of her mother.
Sending the child to the theater and then shooting them apart is the best choice she can make among the few choices in life. Such a mother is ruthless but also affectionate.
I think this is one of the best roles Jiang Wenli has played. Although it is only a supporting role and played less than ten minutes, she has shown the charming, tender, bitter, and ruthless women of the old era like a soul possessed. The first time I watched "Farewell My Concubine", I felt that Yan Hong was full of weird and cruel. Later, she was poor and humble, but she was also the person who made Cheng Dieyi. If Yanhong hadn't left Xiaodouzi in her whole life, would there be Cheng Dieyi afterwards?
