"Red Sorghum" tells a very old story, old is not my age people love to see. At first, when I heard the name "red sorghum", I thought it was a story of a perfect relationship, in the red sorghum field, there is a pair of childhood sweethearts and eventually came together, is a beautiful story of feelings. Perhaps like our generation is accustomed to watching love love TV and movies, anything can be associated with love and love, just do not know this story is diametrically opposed.
A bitter girl is about to marry an old man with leprosy, and a palanquin bearer falls in love with this bitter girl. Everything that happens in between tells of the simplicity of their relationship and the simplicity of people's lives at that time. The story takes place in those lush sorghum fields, which adds a flavor to the story.
The story begins with a patriarchal ideology, where daughters are useless and sold to a dying old man with leprosy in order to improve their lives, and the lives of girls have been so poor since ancient times! What I want to accuse is: at that time, girls had no status, a flowery girl, parents sold their daughters for a little money, but also too desperate. The heroine of the story, Fenglian, gives herself to the sedan chairman, Yu Zhanao, and even if it's not really a relationship, the boy is at least better than the old leper! This scene is meant to show the audience that all a girl wants is a good boy who can take care of her, not sell herself for money. But also thankfully, the old man was killed and happiness came. We have to believe that the God of Luck is always by our side, all we have to do is to treat life well, life is not stingy to us.
Feelings have come to fruition, the child slowly grew up; top quality sorghum wine brewed; life is getting more and more prosperous. When the days are lived in harmony and beauty, there is always so something happens. Japanese vehicles trampled the peaceful sorghum field, so the village is no longer calm, the Japanese brutality, and the kindness of the Chinese people constitute a stark comparison. The Japanese brutality, and the kindness of the Chinese people constitute a stark comparison. The Japanese cruelty to butcher to skin people, such a horrible thing to think also know that only the Japanese people will do. Otherwise, the germ warfare that occurred in China and how it will appear?
This story is also telling us, let us remember the tragic history, the Japanese inhumanity, we Chinese people should be self-improvement, can not lose to Japan!
To be honest, about this story I read not very understand, and not very understand. But the reasoning in the story is understandable to ordinary people, about human nature, freedom, life, unity, but also the praise of people's lives at that time, so simple and simple, no false pretense side, straight to reality. Not every story can be so straightforward to tell some of the truth, like our generation needs to see more movies on this subject, to understand the lives of people at that time, to really understand the truth of the movie to express, is to attack the reality, or to praise the history?
"Red Sorghum" is a title that fits the story. The beginning of the story takes place in the sorghum field, and the end of the story can not be separated from the sorghum field, which leaves the people of the village with a wealth of wealth and the mark of history.
Red Sorghum
After watching this movie, it's really just like what Douer said at the end of the movie, full of red, initially the red of love, and finally the red of blood.
At first it was easy to watch. See nine children wearing a big red dress as a bride, but married to a forty-fifty years old leprosy old man, although the nine children's father sold his daughter to pay back the money behavior is not fair, but the scene on the way to send the bride to the people feel quite happy. Nine children lifted the sedan chair curtain to peek at that glance, I think she may have been attracted. Since childhood, living in such a poor and remote place, she must not have been how to go out, have not seen so strong boys, not to mention that she is going to marry a sickly old man it. Yu Zhanyang boiled back must have been burned in the heart of the young girl in the spring. Pickers toss the bride, nine refused to speak, they will turn the sedan chair and singing, let a person feel good lively. The endless yellow land let a person feel magnificent, a few northwest man and a red sedan chair to this magnificent scene added a lot of life. Probably Yu Zhanzhuo heart of this bitter girl also some pity and heartache, nine children still did not say a word, he asked everyone to stop tossing. After that, the important wild sorghum field in the movie appeared. Said the ground is haunted with some wind blowing sorghum leaves of the eerie sound is also quite frightening, the original is to pretend to be soil three gun robbers appear to render a little atmosphere. After all, he was just one person, or by the pickers killed. But this robber's play is really quite important, otherwise the nine children will not come out of the sedan chair. Squatting next to the sedan chair Yu Zhanao turned back, towards the sorghum field of the nine children look back, the eyes happen to collide, and perhaps they are looking for each other, the two this must have been on each other's heart love. To the eighteen-mile slope, Yu Zhanao's task is completed, naturally, there is no reason to stay, they left, but people who have seen this movie should not forget that he left in the sky and the earth under the reflection of the reluctant figure.
Nine this girl is also a very personalized, although she can only be resigned to her father's arrangements to marry a person who does not like, but with a pair of scissors, but also with a mule than their own important father to cut off associations, this determination is worthy of admiration, and perhaps there is no respect, but only but is the conditioned reflexes of each of the fate of the people who have been forced to the end of the road. Back to the door on the way to be robbed, originally full of fear, look at the person to remove the lower mask of the moment, nine children in the heart of fear should have been replaced by joy. Subsequently, everything that happened in the wild sorghum field, rather than forcible occupation is more like you love me. Sacrifice to their beloved is better than being spoiled by an old man, re-sit on the mule after nine children's mouth smile and hidden in the sorghum field following the nine children masters of Yu Zhanao sang the song? Sister, you boldly go forward? All let us feel the joy in their hearts. Personality is, Jiuer is also a married man, do this kind of thing but let people not think of married women cheating and other dirty words, just because her marriage is a cup.
The wine shop owner is dead, and the narrator is convinced that it was Grandpa who did it, and I believe that, too. After the scene on the Jiu Er's pity completely into admiration, the shopkeeper's death, the fellows also want to leave, the general girl must not know what to do to end up in misery, but Jiu Er with her sincerity will be everyone stay, to keep the shochu workshop. At this time the person who should appear appeared, if it is true that Yu Zhanao killed the former shopkeeper, Jiu Er became a widow, how can he not come it. But this guy is drunk, full of nonsense, although he said the truth, but a big boy without modifying the words or let the nine children of this little girl feel ashamed, not to mention that she is now in charge of the cupboard, to give themselves to leave dignity. Even if her heart loves him, she has to push him out of the door with his luggage.
Being rejected by his beloved, drunk Yu Zhanao stayed in the tank for three days and three nights, a reason may be drunk, but then sin the next day should be sober, deeper reason I am afraid is that his beloved girl by the soil three guns robbed, he did not want to see the fact that Jiu Er was spoiled by the soil three guns. Jiuer this girl after all, strong, everyone enough ransom will be ransomed back to her slowly well. At the invitation of everyone, she went to see the process of brewing sorghum wine. The men were only wearing underwear working feverishly, red sorghum wine so flowed out, the clear red let people look very favorite, sacrificed to the God of Wine when everyone sang a song is also very powerful. Let people see the material life is not rich when people spiritually rich, their smile is from the heart.
At this point, the uninvited guests came again. Yu Zhanao may want to vent his dissatisfaction in his heart, to just brewed wine in the urine and the nine children into the house, at this time the nine children no longer resist, may have experienced by the soil three guns robbed things, she has put down the dignity of the heart and scruples decided to be in the heart of the people in the same. Unexpectedly, Yu Zhanao's pranks make sorghum wine brewed unprecedented flavor. Luo Han put the brewed wine on the doorstep of Jiu'er and Yu Zhanyao opened the door, he knew what had happened and left the soju workshop the next day.
At this point, we have to mention the character of Luo Han. He is watching the nine children married, all day and a group of big boys to stay together suddenly more around a girl like a flower like jade will certainly have a good feeling, although it is a pity that the girl married to an old boy with leprosy, but after all, she is already in charge of the wife of the shopkeeper will no longer be good to think about something. But after the shopkeeper's death, nine children begged him to help him to take charge of the family, he saw the expectations again, for the sake of his beloved girl, he also agreed quickly. But who knows halfway out of a Cheng Bite Jin, Yu Zhanao's appearance so that he completely dead heart, no longer have a reason to stay, Jiu Er already do not need him, he will only leave. Luo Han big brother's love for Jiuzi is deep, but his departure also let Jiuzi understand that he has a love for his own.
After that, to use a common saying, the prince and the princess lived happily together, although Yu Zhanao is not a prince, Jiu'er is not a princess, and the soju workshop is not a beautiful castle, but with the people who love each other together, what more could you ask for? The development of the story there is too perfect, such a story is not to leave a big impression, the story to a twist. A number of years later, one day, nine children recognized the figure watching her from afar chased after the past, she identified then Luo Han brother. Why did the man who disappeared for so long come back? I'm afraid it's because he knew he was on a path of no return, and wanted to see the girl he used to watch over again.
Later in the episode, the bright red turned into a dark red. The Japanese came, and in order to build a highway, they captured people and trampled down the sorghum fields. To make the Chinese listen to them, they make an example of them. They hanged a man high in the air and had a fellow skin him alive. The man raised his head and it turned out he was Tu San Gun. When he robbed the nine children, Yu Zhanao went to find him to fight when he let Yu Zhanao life, can see this person is to talk about the righteousness of the jianghu, although it is a bandit like a person, usually do a lot of evil, but in front of the Japanese, he still rise up to fight back, a bandit's image instantly sublimated into a hero, fortunately, the fellows value righteousness to give him a painful end. But Luo Han brother is not so lucky, he was flayed alive, but always cursed the Japanese in his mouth, until death. I am not a nationalist, and I used to resent the endless anti-war movies on TV. This movie does not have a violent war scene, but more heartbreaking, he put the Japanese most cruel side of the show in front of us, let us feel sad for the suffering compatriots.
At that time, people were not greedy and afraid of death, Yu Zhanao and Jiu'er returned to the soju workshop, with the year Luo Han brother brewed eighteen miles red to pay tribute to him. Every boy in the workshop drank a bowl of wine vowing to avenge Brother Luohan, even young Dou'er. They sang the tune that was dedicated to the god of wine. When the song was first sung, Brother Luohan was still around, and everyone was so happy for making good wine, but at this time, it was a different flavor to hear this song of toast again. Drink our wine, see the emperor does not kowtow? One, four, seven, three, six, nine, nine, nine, one, follow me, good wine? The lyrics of these two lines initially confused me, but when I read them carefully, it was like saying that the emperor was Japanese, and that when we saw them, we, the men of the brewery, would not kowtow. It's like a vow of death, declaring their determination.
But fate is not something that anyone can control, Jiuer was shot on the way to bring food to the boys, and died right in front of Yu Zhanao. The hans accompanied by the sound of a trombone with a lit sorghum wine forward, the Japanese car detonated. But did not come back alive. Only Yu Zhanyao survived. He responded to the dead Jiu Er and sang the song sister you boldly go forward. The song that young men and women used to express their love for each other has now become a tribute to their beloved who will never come back. "Sister, go forward boldly, go forward, don't look back"? At this time, Jiu'er is already on the way to the other world, this is a cheerful song, but sang people can not help but fall tears. Mo turn back, it is not that I do not want to go back, it is not possible to go back. Dou'er pointed to the sky's slowly being swallowed by the red sun and asked his father to look at it, the round red sun finally disappeared, as if to foretell that the Japanese will sooner or later disappear in China, and then the sun slowly appeared, as if to give us expectations. The bright day is just around the corner. At the end of the story, Dou'er sings to the dead Jiu'er, ? Mother, mother, you go up to the southwest, you settle down in the sweet place, you turn your money into money in the bitter place? , which is the perfect wish of Dou'er, but after watching this movie I still don't understand why you have to go to the Southwest and turn money into bitterness.
After watching this movie, I'm afraid that when I see red in the future, I will think of red sorghum, think of a beautiful relationship, think of a group of brave and simple people.
Red Sorghum Afterthought
The sentiments of hurting autumn spewed out a fire-like martyrdom, as the whole movie shows a strong and tragic red tone. There seems to be a slight depression in the warmth, that is the oppression brought by the gray reality. Zhang Yimou's insightful vision, Gu Changwei's detailed outlining, in the yellow land of northern Shaanxi, with ballads singing its simplicity and passion, with the most direct? Wild? Swearing a revolt against the old rituals. Tall red sorghum, red sorghum wine, everything seems to allude to a certain touch-and-go war about to unfold.
See "red sorghum" I y loved on the nine children, September nine born of the girl, not willing to be controlled by the fate of the simple peasant girl. (lz13) hated her father for comparing herself to a big black mule, and roared in desperate anger: ? You go over there with your mule, I'll never come back.? Overthrowing the table is like overthrowing the whole feudal rite of passage, the bondage of arranged marriages. She is rebellious, but is thoughtful, with scissors to protect their chastity, passionate and persistent pursuit of their own happiness.
Yes, she has long been in love with the sedan chair, there are dark and sturdy body of the northern man, shiny bald head is rough and unruly character epitomized. She is brave, because in this social context, feelings may have become the best carrier of resistance, so she defied the world's prejudice and gossip, has already made up her mind. As a female shopkeeper, a girl with a family business, she is atmospheric, sincere and hardworking. She used her sincerity and intelligence to retain a large group of brothers, with their own hard work and ability, is the family business in the development of the clock on the whole day.
Sorghum wine, red like fire and like blood. Blood stained day, her fallen body is resolutely firm and uncomplaining? No tears of grief, but still remember her calm and relaxed smile, is beautiful and so moving. She is calm, when the Japanese invasion, she and the sorghum field people chose to fight, to defend the home, this is how resolute ah?
Red, fire general warm, blood general alarming. Red red sorghum field, red red sunset, red red let a person alarmed by the warmth of the woman ah? I met you in that kind of passionate burning years!
Red Sorghum Afterthought
Red Sorghum is a legend with mythological implications. The entire novel celebrates humanity and the vigorous and exuberant life force in a mystical color. Therefore, praising life is the theme of the book.? It is to praise life through the characterization of personality, to praise the kind of life that gushes inexhaustible vitality, to praise the freedom of life, stretch.
"Red Sorghum" is not a very realistic work, nor is it a kind of search for the roots of national culture. On the contrary, in this connection with the three generations of the past tense back to recount out of the story, shaping the future benefits of a personality, is a personality ideal, beyond the specific social surface, with the depth of human nature and essence, "Red Sorghum" from beginning to end of the theme called is the vigorous vitality, is to promote the living is not distorted, unrestrained, frank and open outlook on life. Therefore. The work before the reader is not a world that has been understood, but an ideal of life in a world. This ideal is in that which has ? sun-worship? s mythology. Red Sorghum is unlike any previous book reflecting the peasantry in that its perspective has shifted from the traditional salute to the land to a salute to life. The transcendent character of the story determines the unreality of the narrative, and the location of the story is downplayed. Even the most basic structure of society is downplayed in Red Sorghum? the village. All the narrative and audio-visual elements of Red Sorghum are in the service of this passionate, freewheeling and painful style of natural life.
Unlike previous exploratory novels, although Red Sorghum also carries the author's intention for the theme of life, it is not exactly like Yellow Earth and other explorations that downplay the plot, relying on the sheer shock value of language to directly express the director's intention. In this novel, the author starts from the actual place, and weaves a complete and wonderfully moving story framework from the specific characters in the specified situation, so that the idea can flow out naturally through the twists and turns of the story, and the behaviors and actions of the characters.
How did the author arrive at the perfect combination of the two through specific methods?
First of all, Red Sorghum has a complete story line of its own, but most of this narrative line is completed by the feeling of words. At the beginning of "Red Sorghum" comes the ? I? s narration; ? I'll tell you about my grandfather and my grandmother, which is still talked about in my hometown. This is a reading point of retelling at this moment in time, this ? Me? is here a narrator of the story. Since he does not appear in the story, he is by definition an objective narrator, but he is also a descendant of the characters in the story, which in turn gives him a certain sense of participation and thus the benefit of being narrated. This reading point is therefore very peculiar and novel, and it gives the author a fluid reading point of reference, very free and omniscient, in his treatment of Red Sorghum. At the same time, the character of his narration pulls the story far away and has the effect of historical interlude. On the basis of this reader, "Red Sorghum" states the fictional nature of the story in this opening.? As the days go by, some people believe it and some don't.? Thus, very comfortable with the story into the non-realistic space and time.
"Red Sorghum" in the character association, the surrounding environment, the moment of transition, and several other major plot turning points, almost all of which are felt by the reader. For example, my grandmother's association with the leprous palmist Li Doudou, the sorghum field's ? Ghosts? , the rule that the bride returns to her hometown after three days of marriage, the murder of Big Head Li, the kidnapping of my grandmother by Bald Three Cannons, the departure of Master Luohan, and the appearance of the Japanese. Red Sorghum also assumes a kind of ? pre-narrative? s function, such as carrying the sedan chair to tell the reader that the sedan chair handle will become my grandfather, which increases the reader? This will increase the readers' desire to read with anticipation. This increases the reader's desire to read with anticipation and makes the story progress more tense. The space and text of Red Sorghum can be used to the fullest extent, and most of the text is used in the performance of the sedan chair, hijacking the road, wild, to honor the god of wine, total eclipse of the sun, so that the idea is attached to a specific picture, attached to a strong symbol of the life of the rituals, so as to reach the artistic situation of the real and the imaginary. It? stitches together the past and the present, the idea of the past and the present, and the idea of the present. It stitches together the past and the present, the idea and the story.
Secondly, when we cope with Red Sorghum, we perceive that Red Sorghum is all drenched in that glorious red color. Red is the color of the sun, blood, and sorghum wine. There, Red Sorghum's use of color is highly stylized. At the beginning is the young, beautiful, soulful my grandmother that full of life of the rosy face, after that is to occupy the screen of the red head, that warm full of red sedan chair, wild that in the wild dance of the sorghum stalks on the flickering sunlight, like red rain like red sorghum wine, bloody human flesh, all the way to the total eclipse of the sky and earth after the world of the red? The whole movie is shrouded in red. The author's choice of this tone almost completely deprives us of the plot of Red Sorghum, and enters a purely emotional experience of a specific modeling space. It is a longing for and praise of the perfect freedom of natural life. It is not a reproduction of a completely realistic time and space, but a spiritual externalization of our inner life force. Red Sorghum ends in that mysterious total eclipse of the sun, where the expanding power of the color red acquires an effect of frozen, almost eternal silence. The black and red sorghum stretching and flowing filled the whole space of "Red Sorghum", extremely brilliant, magnificent and magnificent.
Third, the spatial environment and stylistic description of "Red Sorghum" are striving to seek a colorful simplicity and spatial mystery and expansiveness. All trivial comparative harmonization and transition are thrown away, resulting in a sublime sacred and mysterious life of the living space. Red Sorghum" is mainly about two spatial environments: the sorghum field and the brewing workshop, which embodies the ancient consciousness of life, such as the round doorway of the eighteen-mile slope that is eroded by wind and rain and resembles an ancient castle. The sorghum field, on the other hand, is a place where life is sacred. When "Red Sorghum" on the description of sorghum land, it is as a huge natural life symbols group, stretching, grand, strong, warm, generous. All three renderings of sorghum in Red Sorghum present a kind of wholeness of human and natural life. When my grandmother, in tears, lies on her back on the altar trodden out by my grandfather, there are four climaxes of superimposed wild dances in a row on "Red Sorghum". There, the sorghum field is proof of the birth of life. And in the Japanese forced the people to trample the sorghum, and feel the shock of life being destroyed. At the end of "Red Sorghum", my grandfather and my father stood in the blood-red sunlight like a clay sculpture to cope with the high-speed flow of sorghum footage, what we evoked within us was a kind of self-confidence in life and a tribute to the warmth of the tragic life.
Of course, there are still some issues worth exploring in the ideological connotation and implication of Red Sorghum.
After Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum? A movie that depicts the quaint, wild life of a group of peasants in China in the 20's and 30's and their bloody battle with the invaders. The movie's plot is highly dramatic and celebrates the freedom of life through characterization. Love is true love, hate is true hate; great love, great hate, great life, great death.
And I think, through the heroine of the play (played by Gong Li) Jiu Er? A nearly fell into the old Chinese feudal forces of the success of the molding of women, we see the old Chinese women's extraordinary charisma. She has the experience of having succumbed to a secular family-arranged marriage and despaired of her own miserable fate? But in the end she grasped the only life-saving grass? The bloodthirsty? My grandfather?
Whether it is to deal with the robbers when the calm and collected or to deal with the Japanese invaders when the righteousness; Whether it is with the lover's passion wild and the unlimited remembrance of the martyrs, are fully embodied in the women's rare charm, portraying love and hate, in the face of right and wrong unambiguous image of the female, such a woman can not help us not to admire! Summarized, the nine children embodied the following personality charm characteristics:
Self-esteem and self-love? When married by her father to the leprous brewery owner Li Doudou at the cost of a mule, this strong girl tried to end her miserable fate by committing suicide in order to preserve her chastity and to defend her dignity, is it not a kind of courage to dare to commit suicide?
A rebellion against the feudal system and the world? The words "You go with your mule. You go over there with your mule! I'll never come back~ When she meets the boy of her choice, she boldly breaks the prejudices of the world, and her determination to pursue happiness can be seen;
Strong national spirit? When subjected to the Japanese invasion, resolutely mobilized people to carry out fearless struggle, thus sacrificing their own lives, nearly hitched husband and son;
Superb factory management potential? Put a near-bankrupt brewery quickly developed, and even brewed the famous ? The other side of the coin. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.