Author丨小朋
The movie "Judou"
"Judou" tells about the dyer Yang Yang in a small town in China in the 1920s Jinshan continued to marry a young girl, Ju Dou, as his wife to inherit the family, but she was impotent. His nephew Yang Tianqing and Ju Dou Aimu gave birth to Tianbai. After Yang Jinshan's death, the adult Tianbaihou angrily killed Yang Tianqing, who had committed adultery with his mother. The chrysanthemum bean was so devastated that he set fire to the Yang family dyeing workshop, which was passed down from generation to generation.
This movie is the second work of Director Zhang Yimou after "Codenamed Jaguar". It is starring Gong Li and scored 7.9 on Douban. The film was released in Japan in 1990. As the first film on the mainland to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the plot can be said to have been turbulent, and the ending is shuddering.
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Yang Jinshan is a tyrannical old man. He has tortured two wives to death one after another. Judou is the third wife he bought at a big price. In his eyes, Judou is no different from cattle, whose function is to be called by him to pass on and work for him.
Not only does he treat Judou as a livestock animal, he also doesn't treat his nephew as a human being.
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Tianqing lost his father and mother since he was a child, and was raised by Yang Jinshan for more than 30 years. In his eyes, Jinshan may exist as his father, but Jinshan has never If he didn't regard him as a son, he didn't intend to marry Tianqing, who is nearly 40 years old.
In addition, Jinshan also values money very much and is a money fan.
Jinshan abuses Judou in every possible way. One is to vent his emotions: he is considered a savvy businessman in the village, and he has no children at such an age, and the pressure can be imagined. The second is to vent sexual desire: He needs strong emotional stimulation to have a physiological response. The third is for Judou to give birth to a son: If Judou can't give birth to a son, he is afraid that he will be abused to death like his two previous wives.
Jinshan is sick, not only because of his sexual incompetence, but more serious is the heart disease formed by long-term depression, which leads to his sadistic personality.
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Tianqing has a docile personality, and he has both distress for the young and beautiful aunt and the love of the man for the woman. He digs a hole to watch the aunt take a bath . The small hole was discovered by Judou, and she blocked the hole with firewood. Later, she found that the hole was still opened, and after some inner struggle, she opened the hole again.
Maybe, she knows deeply that only Azure can save her life.
The second shot of taking a bath is more like her temptation. She is hurting all over her clothes, which will arouse Qingqing's affection even more.
He told Tianqing how tyrannical Jinshan is. If he wants to kill her, don't stop him. This is actually asking Tianqing for help.
Jinshan's animal died, he left home to deal with affairs.
Judou seduce Azure several times, and finally succeeded, the two people lingered together, the plot began to burn from here.
The meaning of the red elements in the movie
In the movie, in addition to the depressive gray tones, red is also particularly eye-catching. When Judou was abused by Jinshan for the first time, Judou's belly and the cloth bag that wrapped her mouth were red. This red color in Jinshan is the pleasure brought by visual impact, and Yu Judou is the breath of death.
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The first scene of Judou and Azure lingering, the red dyed cloth slowly falls, and the red belly of Judou is set against this. More like a living breath. She and Tianqing liberated themselves at that moment, regardless of the constraints of feudal thoughts and the eyes of others, they finally lived once, who had never been seen as human beings. But they didn't know that this joy was also the beginning of their evil. Ju Dou was pregnant with Tian Qing's child.
Once again Judou and Tianqing are affair, suddenly outside the doorIt rang, which is really frightening. But in fact, Jinshan's livestock came back and the crisis was lifted. Tianqing rescued his uncle Jinshan from the mountain, and Jinshan was paralyzed.
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In this scene, Judou put on red clothes and Tianqing toasted, closed the door, and they began to live a young couple Life is like the night of first marriage, as if life has been liberated. But they don't know that the crisis is coming step by step. There is a price to pay for what you don’t deserve.
In the last scene, Tianbai rescued Judou and Azure from the cellar, who had been suffocated because of the affair, and he threw the Azure into the dye vat. The red cloth fell slowly again, and this time the red set off death and sadness.
Red ignited the plot, but the main emotion of the whole drama is still sadness. This tragedy is not only the sadness of their destiny, but also the consequences of the characters' own actions. Red symbolizes desire, love, and also symbolizes their struggle with fate The fire of desire.
The plot is mixed with the fate of life in life and life in death.
Tianbai’s birth not only gave the protagonists the hope of alive, but also brought them destruction.
Tianbai’s birth saved several people. One of them is Judou, who gives birth to a son, and she has living capital. He also saved Jinshan. For him, giving birth to a son was his lifelong pursuit. Even when he was old, he could not let go of this hope. For him, his son is the continuation of his life.
As for Tianqing, the birth of Tianbai adds a sense of hope to his life.
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But when they are happy because of the child’s birth, they don’t know the truth is about to kill Jinshan. He needs to know that the son is not his, this is not the same as Took his life. After learning the truth, the paralyzed Jinshan tried his best to burn the dye shop he had run all his life. Compared with property, he needs a son more. Without a son, life is better than death.
The fire was still extinguished. The hateful Jinshan tried to make the sky white several times, but failed. The result was that Jinshan was put in a wooden barrel. When he saw Tian Bai playing next to the dye vat, he wanted to take revenge again to push Tian Bai into the water. The first words Tian Bai said after he was born saved his life. He actually called Daddy Jinshan. Jinshan was influenced by this sentence, and Tianbai became Jinshan's weapon to avenge Tianqing and Judou.
It is a pity that one is the nominal father and the other is the real father. The two fathers died at the end of the day.
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The two killings of the father in the white sky, is it the Oedipus complex or self-destruction?
Tianbai's father made his life crisis relieved and gave Jinshan hope to live. He proudly called his son, son, my son. Maybe at that moment, he really realized his dream of becoming a father.
But it was Tian Bai who killed him. Once Tianbai was playing next to the dye tank, Jinshan said that he would help Tianbai dye the red grass. When Tianbai moved, he broke the thread that was entangled with Jinshan. At this time, Jinshan was paralyzed and nestled in the bucket. He was unable to struggle, and finally drowned. .
Tian Bai standing aside, from expressionless to weird smile, to smile with hatred and cheerfulness, it can be said to be a deep interpretation of his darkness.
Does anyone love Tian Bai? No, Tianbai in the play is also a materialized character. No one has considered his spiritual needs, including his mother.
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Jinshan is dead. According to the family's decision, Tianqing must move out of the dyeing workshop, and Judou stays widow all his life. Qingshan and Judou's relationship can only be carried out underground, and cannot be seen. For Yu Tianqing and Judou, their lives are even more sad. Later, they ran to a tryst in a cave outside the village, and they were discovered a few times later.
The people in the village talked a lot, and Tian Bai heard it when he grew up. He took a machete and ran after the rant. When he got home, he was furious and beat his biological fatherPro Qingshan. This is his vent again.
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The final vent was that he rescued Tianqing from the cellar at home, who had been suffocated by an affair with Judou, and drowned him in the dye vat. At this point, he killed the two fathers.
I read some film reviews written by friends, saying that Tianbai killed his father, could it be because of the Oedipus complex?
Oedipus complex is a term in the field of psychoanalysis, also known as Oedipus complex. Regarding its origin and meaning, I will not explain much.
What I want to say here is that Tianbai may indeed have Oedipus complex, but this Oedipus does not love his mother, but grows up in such a deformed family relationship. The parents are not shy about male love. Female love will inevitably trigger the boy's associations, and then an invisible competitive relationship will be formed, and he is the one that fails in the competition.
The plot has never brought us the feeling of maternal love, so this is a boy who lacks maternal love. Psychologically, he will naturally hate his father.
But Tian Bai is not really killing his father, but himself.
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As an incest child, his inner tears are unimaginable for ordinary people. Every time his anger and hatred are more than just It is to parents and talkers, including himself.
My guess is that when he killed his father, he was also killing part of himself.
Another reason why he killed his father is that what he wanted to kill was his own sense of incompetence.
Jinshan’s incompetence is that his limbs are paralyzed, and he can’t do anything for Azure to invade his wife. Tian Qing's incompetence is that he has no sense of resistance. In fact, he can leave with Tian Bai and Ju Dou, but his pattern trapped him in this dyeing workshop and also trapped in this dye vat.
Tianbai’s incompetence is his inability to do anything about his own destiny. He cannot decide his own destiny, and cannot change all this. To kill his father is to kill this feeling of incompetence.
But the sense of incompetence cannot be killed. His birth background will be carved into his bones like a brand. Even if they really leave this dyeing workshop, their hearts cannot be relieved. This is the result of cheating.
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What burns away is the fruit of evil, which is the last time the Ju Dou fights against fate
Ju Dou witnessed it with his own eyes The son killed Tian Qing, and as a woman, she was also powerless. In the end, she burned the entire dyeing workshop. The fire burned away the consequences of evil. It was her last fight against fate. Since she could not decide how to live, but at least she could decide how to die.
You know, from the moment she and Qingshan gave birth to Tianbai, they could not get out of this dyeing workshop anyway, their fate was closely linked.
Judou is dead, but she has lived a real life. When she lingers with the green mountains again and again, this is the only feeling of being alive she has experienced. At other times, she lived under the constraints of feudal society and was tortured.
Burning all of this is the best ending, and this evil and spiritual torture will also end.
Author: Peng small, two counselors, simple words, written in the hearts of ordinary people in the world. May you live well and love well.
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