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mentioned the movie "Ju Dou", I don’t know how many people still remember it.
A lot of people born after 00, or even after 90, may not have heard of this movie.
However, it is the first domestic film nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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"Judou" tells a tragic story: the third wife of dye shop owner Yang Jinshan, unbearable tortured, had an affair with his adopted nephew Yang Tianqing, and gave him a son, Yang Tianbai. Yang Tianbai, who witnessed his mother's affair since childhood, was extremely distorted and eventually killed his father.
If the story is only as mentioned above, then the story is too simple.
is actually like this. The owner of
dye workshop Yang Jinshan is nearly 60 years old and has married two wives, but he has no children and half daughters. Not because his wife can't do it, but because he can't.
is a man who is not good, and he has more quirks, just like the eunuch in the palace. The first two wives were tortured to death by him, and now the third wife can hardly escape her claws.
Yang Jinshan can be so capricious, it must not be because he is handsome, but because he has a dye shop. The guy who helped him in the
dyeing workshop was his nephew Yang Tianqing.
said he was a nephew, but in fact he has no blood relationship. Yang Tianqing is an orphan he adopted since childhood.
Yang Tianqing is in her forties, diligent, hardworking, and orderly.
It stands to reason that Yang Tianqing grew up with Yang Jinshan and helped him run the dye shop business. Even if there is no blood relationship, it is almost half of it.
But Yang Jinshan has never regarded Yang Tianqing as a son, and his uncle and nephew are just titles, and he has never given Yang Tianqing a consideration for marriage.
Try to think about it, a handsome man, who is not nearly female in his forties, must have too much desire in his heart.
So Yang Tianqing secretly dug a hole in the wooden wall of the stable, peeping at his aunts to take a bath.
Yang Jinshan's third wife, Judou, is not like the previous two. When she discovered that Yang Tianqing was spying on herself, she took the opportunity to deliberately expose her body in order to ignite the fire of desire in Yang Tianqing's heart. The
trick really worked. Under the stimulation of her aunt, Yang Tianqing finally had sex with her aunt and gave birth to a son to her uncle Yang Jinshan.
got his son Yang Jinshan, and for a while, he was happily crying, and knocked his head to thank the ancestors because he was still in the dark.
Once, Yang Jinshan went out to do errands, but in an accident, he fell off the back of the donkey and became paralyzed.
Since then, Yang Tianqing and Judou have embarked on a blatant business. However, Yang Jinshan was paralyzed in bed, he really wanted to kill the enemy, unable to recover.
However, the activities of Yang Tianqing and Judou were all seen by his son Yang Tianbai, which caused serious distortions to Yang Tianbai, who had witnessed everything since he was a child. When he was young, he expressed his anger with silence and cold stare. . When
grew up, facing Yang Tianqing and Judou's adultery, facing people's rumors, Yang Tianbai finally got angry and killed his biological father with his own hands.
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The whole movie has four main characters: Yang Jinshan, Yang Tianqing, Judou and Yang Tianbai.
Among these four characters, none of them deserves sympathy. If you have to choose one, it can only be Yang Tianbai, who killed his father himself.
The greatest misfortune he encountered was that he was born into such a ridiculous family and bore a ridiculous title. He was the son born of an affair between his mother and his nephew, and he knew that the person he called his father was not his biological father. And his biological father, he can only be called "brother."
Yang Jinshan, a man who can't do it. He regarded the perverted physical torture as pleasure. He had tortured two wives to death, and he still did not repent, thinking that the third wife would still accept it, and as a result he brought himself unbearable lightness in his life.
If he treats his nephew Yang Tianqing a little bit better, makes Yang Tianqing a family and marries his wife as soon as possible, nothing will happen to him. However, his stinginess and disregard for Yang Tianqing's life and death caused his nephew to wear a green hat and helped him give birth to a son. It's the biggest insult to a man to need help from others.
Yang Tianqing, an orphan. Yang Jinshan kindly took you in, but you did such a business with your aunt, how aboutI am worthy of my uncle's kindness in nurturing you. Although he is mean to you and his aunt tempts you, but... it seems that under this situation, many men, especially bachelors who have been in for more than 40 years, will indeed be unable to control it.
But, I was wrong.
Judou must be the most dangerous character in the film. She was abused and tortured by Yang Jinshan, exhausted physically and mentally, and had no hope of life. When she found that Yang Tianqing was peeping on her, she decided to make a desperate effort to save herself from the fire.
When she was with Yang Tianqing, she thought she had gotten rid of the devil, but she did not know she had stepped into another abyss, an ethical and moral abyss. The price was that her husband died, her lover died, and her heart was twisted.
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"Ju Dou" is very delicate in plot arrangement, the narrative advances layer by layer, and finally leads to a climax.
When Yang Tianqing heard Ju Dou shouting for the torment by Yang Jinshan for the first time, she just leaned out of her bed slightly, holding her breath, and carefully discerning the "tuning" of Ju Dou's cry.
Judou met Yang Tianqing for the first time. Yang Tianqing was shy and did not dare to look directly at him. At that time, Judou was like a fairy in his heart.
And when he heard Yang Jinshan torturing Judou for the second time, Yang Tianqing had already come downstairs in Yang Jinshan's bedroom, but she just squatted silently beside the stairs, perhaps overwhelmed in her heart, but the anger never showed.
The second time Ju Dou and Yang Tianqing met, was when Yang Tianqing spied on her stable. Ju Dou had a disheveled face and a haggard face. Yang Tianqing must have pity in her heart.
The third time Ju Dou and Yang Tianqing met was on the bridge outside the village. Yang Tianqing looked at the scars on Ju Dou's face and arms, and must be angry from his heart. This also paved the way for Yang Tianqing's third axe move.
When Yang Tianqing heard Ju Dou's cry for the third time, he finally couldn't restrain his anger. He held a pig-killing axe, and there must be hundreds of vicious thoughts in his heart. Although in the end it didn't rush up, just slashed down the stairs fiercely, but the audience understood that if there is another time the axe hits it must not be wood.
Yang Tianqing's three actions and Judou's three encounters complement each other, and it is this arrangement that promotes Yang Tianqing's anger step by step. In the
film, the young Yang Tianbai also witnessed Judou and Yang Tianqing's activities three times, which gradually collapsed his healthy mentality.
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"Ju Dou" not only criticizes the feudal ethics, reveals the distortion of human nature, but also carries out a pungent satire on the various social conditions.
Yang Jinshan drowned accidentally, but Ju Dou could not remarry. According to the clan chief
, she must be widowhood and chaste. Unexpectedly, she had lost her virginity as early as when Yang Jinshan was alive.
Regardless of what Judou is doing right or wrong, this kind of etiquette itself is an annihilation of human nature.
can't think about everything. In ancient times, men with three wives and four concubines had no real ability, so they could only rely on some dogmas to restrain women.
Judou wanted Yang Tianqing to kill Yang Jinshan many times, but when Yang Jinshan really died, Judou and Yang Tianqing, as daughters-in-law and nephews, had to block the coffin seven or forty-nine times, expressing their heart to Yang Jinshan. How hard it is to die, it seems that through this form we can tell whether a person is really filial to the deceased.
Yang Tianqing and Judou wished that Yang Jinshan would die early, but they put on a filial posture in front of outsiders, bathing and sunbathing for Yang Jinshan. In the eyes of outsiders, Yang Tianqing is more filial than his son.
Don’t people understand that the human heart is separated from the belly?
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In addition to the story, characters and narrative techniques, there are two important factors in the film: one is the composition and the other is the color.
had to admire Lao Mouzi's precise control over the composition and color of the film.
"Judou" is a movie that criticizes feudal dogmatism. Human nature is bound by some rules, which makes people's hearts twisted. The filming location of the film was selected in Nanping Village, Anhui Province. The traditional ancient buildings gave people a sense of structure in appearance, just like feudal dogma, which bound people to it.
And the colored dyed cloth that appears many times in the film, hangs on bamboo poles vertically above the ridge of the roof. The colorful dyed cloth may be intentional by the director, and it represents the desire of the people in the house.
Although it is higher than the roof, it still cannot get rid of the shackles of the house.
The whole movie, the only thing that puzzles meYes, why every time Judou and Yang Tianqing have an affair, they both shout or laugh so loudly, just to stimulate Yang Jinshan? Or is it to prove something to Yang Jinshan?
puzzled!
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