The movie "Farewell My Concubine" takes the traditional Chinese history "Farewell My Concubine" as a clue. It tells the story of the collaboration between the protagonist Cheng Dieyi and his brother Duan Xiaolou. The process of the film is interspersed with the oppression of the times and the human nature. In 1993, the film won the Palme d’Or, the highest award at the Cannes International Film Festival in France. In the movie
, 9-year-old Xiaodouzi (later changed to: Cheng Dieyi) was cut off the deformed finger of her right hand by her mother who was a prostitute and sent to the Guan family class. Because of learning to sing, his gender had to be changed from the original "Men's Lang was changed to Female Jiao'e", In fact, Cheng Dieyi, who was succumbed to the change in gender ideology, also greatly affected his life.
Cheng Dieyi, who gave in to the transformation of gender ideology, also greatly changed his life.
Liyuan Manager Na Ye came to Guanjiaban, Cheng Dieyi sang "Si Fan" and said: "The little nun is twenty-eight years old, and she is youthful. His hair was shaved off by the master. I was originally a male son, not a female Jiao'e", and the lines in "Si Fan" should have been "I am a female Jiao'e, and I am not a male son." Cheng Dieyi subconsciously, seemed a bit stubborn to insist on his identity as a male son, not a female Jiao'e. There was a trace of his resistance to the current environment behind him. But when the senior brother picked up his cigarette and frantically fought in his mouth for a while, blood slowly trickled out of Cheng Dieyi's mouth. He seemed to understand some truth, so he succumbed to this situation and gave him affectionate style. Di Cong sang the eye-catching line "I am a female Jiao'e, and I am not a man."
Behind his insistence that he is a "male man, not a female Jiao'e" symbolizes his struggle with fate and the current environment
Cheng Dieyi was originally a man, but his role in the Guanjiaban It is "Yuji" that corresponds to the identity of "daughter". He subconsciously insists that he is a boy man, so at the beginning he changed his line to "I am a boy man and not a girl Jiao'e" in his opinion. Insisting on his identity as a "male man" symbolizes his struggle against life, fate, and the current environment, but the current environment tells him that you must be a daughter, you are a daughter, in this environment Under the oppression of ideology, he had to succumb to the change of identity from "male" to "female". Although he succumbed under the oppression of morphological consciousness, it seems that in his heart, there is a bit of persistence.
Although he still has a sense of resistance in his heart, under the oppression of the world, he still succumbed to
. This manifested in a certain time when he returned home, he saw an abandoned baby who was crying and wanted to hug When he got up, the people around him reminded him, "No matter, everyone has his own destiny." But Cheng Dieyi firmly hugged the child. "Everyone has his own destiny" This sentence seems simple, but thinking about it in the depths seems to persuade Cheng Dieyi , "You accept your fate, your fate should be like this." The moment he held the child firmly, he was a bit reluctant to accept his fate, that is, he felt a little bit persistent in his heart. He believed that "people should not accept fate" but this hope, this weak resistance to him Can they break through the shackles and break the oppression brought to him by the environmental society?
Yuan Siye said to Cheng Dieyi:
"In the world, men are filthy, women are filthy, and Guanyin alone combines the best of the two, and the joy is boundless"
vaguely implies his coveting of Cheng Dieyi. When Cheng Dieyi picked up a sword in Yuan Siye’s room and looked at it carefully, Yuan Siye said that the sword had a different origin, "It’s the old thing of the great eunuch Zhang. It took a lot of trouble when the Zhang family fell You got it, so it seems that this thing is your old acquaintance, and sure enough, things in the world are nothing to look for through iron shoes."
Yuan Siye’s illocutionary meaning has a bit of letting Cheng Dieyi accept his fate, "a lot of trouble", "this thing is your old acquaintance". This situation and this situation are reminding Cheng Dieyi that he should accept his fate. With his fate being like a sword, he can't stay in it and can't struggle. But in the face of Yuan Siye's coercion, what was Cheng Dieyi's reaction? Is he breaking through the shackles and breaking the oppression brought to him by others? Still compromise? It's a pity that his answer is no. Under all kinds of oppression, he accepted his fate, indulged in it, and couldn't struggle. Although the state of the world is almost harsh on Cheng DieyiOppression, but if he is firm enough, he can still get rid of this fate and break free from this predicament. There is another character in the film that seems to be similar to Cheng Dieyi. The prostitute Juxian is attached to Duan Xiaolou. After she made up her mind, she went to the brothel mother for a showdown and gave all the gold and silver treasures to the brothel mother without hesitation. When the last valuable thing on her body was placed on the stage, she was happy and bravely ran to her own happiness.
prostitute Juxian broke the shackles, got rid of the oppression of the world and rushed to happiness bravely
In that era, a prostitute could bravely pursue her own happiness, how difficult is ? First of all, she has to break the shackles she has given herself, because people are most afraid of knowing that they are inferior. Since she is a prostitute, she first has a sense of inferiority in her heart. I know that I am inferior, and the world is also inferior to me. I also feel that the more inferior I am, the more I indulge in the emotions brought about by inferiority, the more unable to correct myself. Most people in the lower class have this mentality. As a prostitute, Yu Fengchen grasped her own happiness, but she didn't feel too much inferiority. Instead, she bravely ran towards her own happiness with a generous and uncompromising attitude. In this process, she never felt inferior because of her identity as a prostitute, nor did she put herself in a position of destiny known to the world because of her identity. The world recognizes that prostitutes are inferior, so they feel that their lives are going to be miserable. This is in line with the state of the world. But Juxian is different. She did not give herself the shackles of the lowly status of a prostitute, and got rid of it. The shackles of fate.
Juxian broke not only her own shackles, but also broke the oppression of the world. When Juxian showed off to her mother, there was a bit of envy in her mother's tone, but her mother said with a confident expression, "I tell you, that kiln sister, will always be the kiln sister" in order to make Juxian succumb to the world. Under the oppression. "You wipe your face when you come out here, you really become a beloved?" "You are a wolf or a tiger in this world, don't you recognize you? " From the mother's words, it was reflected It is a common view and oppression of prostitution.
Juxian know this? I think she knows it, because in the eyes of others, prostitutes are not qualified to be happy and have lost the qualifications to obtain "happiness". But whether Juxian faces herself, or the oppression of the world, she is She was brave and broke the "predetermined tragic fate" given to her by the world; she also refused to admit her fate, did not consider herself a "Sister Yao", and would always live a low life like Sister Yao. Although
is a lowly chrysanthemum, but she neither thinks that she is lowly, her life is enthusiastic and tenacious, she broke free from this fate, but also reaped her own happiness. Such a chrysanthemum is brave , . On the contrary, Cheng Dieyi, the protagonist in the film, succumbed to the transformation of his gender form. Although he had a sense of resistance in his heart, he was finally restrained by his own shackles and under the pressure of this situation. Still unable to resist, completely bowed to this known fate, succumbed, and finally came to a tragic ending.
Cheng Dieyi, who succumbed to the transformation of her gender form, failed to break through her own shackles. Facing the oppression of the world, although she had a sense of resistance in her heart, she was unable to break free from this tragic fate in the end and bowed her head completely. Contrary to Cheng Dieyi, prostitute Juxian, although she is a scumbag, she is neither self-sufficient, nor tied down by the prostitute’s low status, nor succumbed to the oppression of the world to her, and she does not want to know her destiny. Bowing her head, instead she bravely pursued happiness, refused to admit her fate, and could not be defined by others. This may be the reason why the two people's fate is completely different. Although ended the film at the end, Juxian hanged herself to end her life, but in In the troubled times, compared to the miserable life of a prostitute, she still had a happy and happy life, and she was lucky enough.
