In China, it is often difficult to distinguish between female films. [New Women] Director: Cai Chusheng Starring: Ruan Lingyu/Zheng Junli Wei Ming is a representative of the new woman who received higher education in the 1930s. She pursues freedom of marriage and marrys the man s

In China, it is often difficult to distinguish between female movies.

Although there are many films in the history of films that depict women's social situation and destiny, most of them are deliberately managed from a male perspective.

is a good wife and mother, or a chaste and virtuous woman. It seems to be a compliment, but in fact it shows the preferences of women in men's eyes, or the sufferings of the masses through women.

There are very few movies that really involve women's self-aware expression and fight against gender injustice.

Good images can often reflect the reality deep in reality, such as emotions, marriage, career, and life. The thoughts of women of different eras and ages about their destiny and self in the movie correspond to the dilemma of women in reality.

[New Women] (1934)

Director: Cai Chusheng

Starring: Ruan Lingyu / Zheng Junli

Wei Ming is a representative of the new woman who received higher education in the 1930s. She pursues freedom of marriage and marrys the man she loves deeply. She thought it was a new beginning, but in the end she could not escape the fate of being abandoned.

Wei Ming was unwilling to endure a soulless marriage. He took his daughter out to make a living and became a piano teacher, but life obviously did not let her go.

The continuous harassment and embarrassment of principal Dr. Wang made Wei Ming unable to move forward. Finally, under the double attack of his daughter's serious illness and tabloid rumors, he committed suicide in despair.

[New Women] can be called a very feminine film in China in the early days of .

movie is adapted from real events. Wei Ming, played by Ruan Lingyu, is the prototype of a female writer who committed suicide by suicide. In the

film, Wei Ming showed an uncompromising attitude from the beginning, whether it is to men or society, even if he is a prostitute, he will not commit himself to Dr. Wang.

Although it goes against the moral concepts in the eyes of the world, it truly follows her inner wishes: would rather sell her body than sell her soul .

She shouted out injustice and resentment for the women of that era.

[Long live the wife] (1947)

Director: Sang Hu

Starring: Jiang Tianliu/ Zhang Fa / Shi Hui

Sizhen is a good wife with a beautiful and wise appearance. After marrying her husband Tang Zhiyuan, she is well-mannered. When encountering conflicts between her father-in-law and son-in-law, she can often protect her husband's face and comfort her elders.

Such a well-known good wife is in the dilemma of her husband's cheating.

In order to take care of the reputation of the whole family, the good wife Sizhen helped her bankrupt husband solve a lot of trouble. After everything was settled, she filed for divorce.

This movie is very Zhang Ailing . In a humorous comedy style, it tells the painstaking efforts of a wife who "walking in a half-large family, grieving herself everywhere, and taking the overall situation into consideration." Although the story took place in the 1940s, it describes the situation of a daughter-in-law from ancient times to the present.

not only has to deal with trivial matters all day long, but also tolerate and take care of those giant baby husbands, exhausted.

Under the education of relatives and neighbors "suggestions on reconciliation but not separation" and "who will not live with forever", most wives spend their whole life together, and too few can take the step of divorce.

A smart woman like Sizhen was unable to avoid a compromise in the end, let alone those who were soft and kind.

[ Lushan Love ] (1980)

Director: Huang Zumo

Starring: Zhang Yu / Guo Kaimin

During the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, Zhou Yun, who lived in the United States, went to Lushan to visit. On the way, she met the aspiring young man Geng Hua. The two gradually developed love during the journey together, and a pure and beautiful love story began.

Between the 1950s and 1980s, Chinese films have always been very restrained in the expression of love. Most of the love is only revealed between the eyes and rarely have substantial actions. And most of them are men who take the initiative, and women just need to cover their faces and cooperate shyly.

[Lushan Love] Goes the opposite way. The whole love process starts from encountering travel, from swimming to first kiss, Zhou Yun is on the side of attack, and the man seems restrained. In

, Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin's kiss like a dragonfly is known as "the first kiss scene in Chinese movies ", which caused a great shock at that time.

Zhou Yun teased Geng Hua's sentence, " says Confucius has been dead for more than two thousand years, and I think he is still alive in your heart ", which even outlines the image of an independent woman who is bold and passionate and is not limited to secular vision.

[Man·Ghost·Love] (1987)

Director: Huang Shuqin

Starring: Pei Yanling/ Li Baotian /Xu Shouli

Girl Qiu Yun was born in a troupe of operas, and her parents were the pillars of this opera troupe. One day, the mother who sang Huadan's mother eloped with the man, and the father and daughter became the laughing stock of everyone, especially the little girl Qiuyun, who was bullied.

In order to make a sigh, Qiuyun, who is very talented, secretly learned opera, but was afraid of following in his mother's footsteps, so he gave up the actress and played the role of the actress and soon became the pillar of the opera troupe.

movie is adapted from the real story of opera artist Pei Yanling. The film is played by Zhong Kui in the Mid-Autumn Festival, just like the female version of Cheng Dieyi in . It builds a protective wall with gender castration, and moves step by step from weakness to peak, gaining everyone's recognition.

Since childhood, Zhong Kui has been the hero in Qiu Yun’s heart. She has always hoped that such a man can pull herself out of the haze of her family.

It’s a pity that none of the three most important men in her life could do it. Her father and lover were weak and retreated, and her husband was addicted to gambling and shallow. In desperation, she could only shift the focus of her life to art, marry the stage, and play with Zhong Kui to save herself from herself.

Behind the success of fame, it is hard to hide the depression and loneliness of women.

[ Big red lantern hanging high ] (1991)

Director: Zhang Yimou

Starring: Gong Li /Ma Jingwu/He Saifei

After half a year of college, Song Lian, who was forced to marry the master of the Chen family courtyard by her greedy mother and become the fourth concubine.

The Chen Mansion Hou House, which has been passed down from generation to generation, is very strict. In the evening, the concubines and wives have to stand at the gate of their yard waiting for the master to light lanterns.

Getting this red lantern means the master’s favor and has the right to order food and play.

The eldest wife is haggard, the second wife hides a knife in her smile, the third wife is free and easy, and the singing of the lotus is stubborn and rebellious.

These deep-dwelling women who are imprisoned by the patriarchal framework, in order to live a better life, they are closely attached to their men, and they are intrigue and compete with each other. After you finish your singing and I will appear and perform a funny and sad drama.

Several times, the maid died, the third wife died, Song Lian was crazy, looking at the fifth concubine who was in the wedding dress, a new round of tragedy fate will be staged again.

In Lu Xun's words, if you look at the brief history of Chinese women, each page is the traditional ethics of " Three Obediences and Four Virtues ", but if you open the cracks in the book and look carefully, the densely written words are clearly only " Eat People ".

[Xi Fu Club] (1993)

Director: Wang Ying

Starring: Zhou Caiqin /Wen Mingna/Yu Feihong/Wu Junmei

In the process of growing up, the relationship with the mother is a difficult problem that cannot be overcome.

As a mother who has experienced it, she is well aware of the world's prejudice and embarrassment against women, either implicitly or explicitly.

They do not want their daughter to repeat the tragedy they have experienced, and are eager to use their own experience to avoid possible pain for them.

But this concern has led to the anxiety and rebellion of these young girls.

Lin Duo spent half his life to get rid of the identity of a child bride and finally reached his current position, so he had a strong desire and demand for his daughter;

Yingying once had an unbearable past, which caused a lifelong shadow. She hoped that her daughter could stick to her heart and live for herself;

Anmei was influenced by the tragedy of her mother and learned to speak out in the face of unfair destiny.

Each mother and daughter reflects the shadow of traditional oriental women, revealing either fine or long inner emotions, exploring the changes in female consciousness in the times.

After experiencing confusion and pain, women have moved from absolute weakness to awakening and struggle. The suffering and misery on the way are just a stop on this road.

[Women, Forty] (1995)

Director: Anh Xu

Starring: Xiao Fangfang / Qiao Hong /Luo Jiaying

Mid-life crisis is a bottleneck in life that most people have to experience. Compared with men, the midlife crisis of women is obviously more complicated and diverse. It has both the death of family trivial matters, faces career contradictions, and has to endure self-doubt when they are old.

A'e is one of them.

years old and has a hot personality. He is in the most crazy stage of his life, spinning like a top all day long.

In addition to the work attack, she also needs to take good care of her mother-in-law, husband and son, and try her best to comfort her bad-tempered father-in-law, which often makes her one head bigger.

My mother-in-law suddenly passed away. Her originally stubborn father-in-law became an old man with dementia in extreme sadness. She only remembered the past in her mind. She only knew A'e in front of her. Her invisible dependence deepened her distress.

solves the trivial matters at home, and faces the pressure of being squeezed down by young people at work, and she gradually becomes powerless.

, it's really annoying. But the seemingly unintentional care of her family can always support her to overcome obstacles.

After all, life has been like this and has become a habit.

[ Marriage Notice ] (1998)

Director: Chen Guofu

Starring: Rene Liu /Wu Bai/ Chen Zhaorong

Blind date is an inevitable thing for many single men and women.

When it reaches the age of marriage leave, there are always people who urge you to fall in love, get married and have children. It seems that if you lack this link, you will be sentenced to death in the second half of your life. But for most young people, what kind of people they spend their whole life with is the most worth considering.

boyfriend's disappearance puts ophthalmologist Du Jiazhen into a low point. In order to change her mood, she published a marriage notice in the newspaper's advertising column, hoping to comfort herself through her new relationship. As soon as the announcement came out, various purposes were different, and strange candidates came one after another:

were either machismo, wanting to find a nanny; or being lustful and wanting to have a date; or being single when you were young, wanting to try love when you are old, or having experience in prison.

Du Jiazhen saw different men in different places, like a voyeur, exploring the secrets in these men's hearts. During the viewing and being watched, the men's various prejudices and stereotypes of women were revealed one by one.

At this moment, Jiazhen realized that what they wanted was not a wife who would spend the rest of their lives with, but all kinds of desires in their hearts.

Which Chinese female movie is the most memorable of?