Today I will tell you about a domestic drama movie about feudal themes.
The story takes place in a small town in the 1920s, Jinshan is a dye shopkeeper with a physical defect, he has a violent and mean personality, the two wives he had married before were tortured to death by him, and he always wanted to have a son, and he spent a lot of money to buy a young and beautiful daughter-in-law Judou.
Because the status of women at that time was extremely humble, although Ju Dou was unwilling to marry Jinshan, who was more than half a hundred years old, but there was nothing she could do, she worked hard in the dyeing workshop during the day, and at night she had to be tortured and abused by Jinshan, Jinshan also had a nephew Tianqing who was nearly forty years old but had never married a wife, Tianqing had reverie for young and beautiful aunts, whenever Judou bathed, he would peek through a small hole in the wall, and whenever Judou was tortured by Jinshan, Tianqing was also very distressed about Judou's legacy, but because of Jinshan's identity, he did not dare to make a difference, Tianqing wanted to get close to Judou He can only take advantage of Jinshan to show his heart to Judou when he is not at home, and Judou has also suffered for a long time, so he has a good feeling for the kind and considerate Qingshan, and deliberately exposes the scars on his body to Tianqing when he takes a bath, hoping to let Tianqing help her escape the clutches.
Once Jinshan needs to go out, Judou finally can't hold back the long-suppressed emotions in her heart, she tried to seduce Tianqing, and Tianqing had no resistance in the face of Judou's beautiful face, the two of them enjoyed themselves in the dyeing workshop, the mind and body were released to the extreme, since then, Tianqing and Judou often hide from Jinshan to steal, and over time Judou is pregnant with Tianqing's child, but Jinshan mistakenly thinks that this is his child, and the overjoyed Jinshan finds the master in the town to name the child, Tianbai, and Tianqing belongs to the same generation, After October, Judou gave birth to a big fat son, and finally Jinshan, who finally had the continuation of the incense, began to improve his attitude towards Judou, while Tianqing and Judou were still maintaining this deformed love.
This day Ju Dou and Tian Qing were flirting, the donkey who suddenly came back frightened both of them, but Jin Shan was missing, Tian Qing quickly went out to look for his uncle, it turned out that Jin Shan was fainted on the mountain because of a stroke, Tian Qing would carry Jin Shan back to the town, on the way he had thought of throwing Jin Shan off the cliff, so that there was nothing to hinder him and Ju Dou, but in the end the kind Tian Qing did not do this, although jin Shan who retrieved a life survived, but the lower body was paralyzed and could not stand up again, and could only stay at home all day. And this also allowed him to discover Ju Dou and Tianqing's private affair, he was angry but powerless, and Ju Dou also told Jinshan Tianbai that she and Tianqing's child, Tianbai gradually grew up, but he was reluctant to speak, no one knew the reason.
Jinshan, who has been looking for revenge, wants to take advantage of Tianbai to play with the water to push him down the dyeing vat, but just when he is about to do it, Tianbai suddenly turned back to him and called out to him, Jinshan suddenly dismissed the idea of killing Tianbai, after which the relationship between Tianbai and Jinshan is getting better and better, and Judou is also pregnant again at this time, Judou does not want to give birth to a child, she is not willing to continue such a life of survival, she bought abortion pills to beat the child, but because she bought fake medicine and could no longer have children.
Judou let Tianqing take her and Tianbai out of this town, but the cowardly Tianqing did not dare to bear the consequences of all this, he refused Judou, Jinshan accompanied Tianbai to play next to Dyeing Red, but accidentally fell into the dyeing vat, he wanted to ask for it, but Tianbai, who was standing on the shore, looked at Jinshan's hand calling for help but laughed and did not call for help, Jinshan died, according to the family's vision Tianqing needed to move out of the dyeing workshop, and the feelings between him and Judou were still tied, tianbai also witnessed the secret affair between his mother and Tianqing, Although he was young, he understood that his mother's relationship with Azure was deformed.
He began to hate Tianqing, as soon as Tianqing came to dye the factory he would drive Tianqing out, Judou and Tianqing's ghost would be accidentally bumped into by the villagers, rumors spread in the town, angry Tianbai took a knife and wanted to chase after the person, when he returned home, Tianqing noticed the blood on Tianbai's hand, and Tianbai knocked him to the ground with a punch, the sound of the fight attracted Judou, Judou told Tianbai in a rage, in fact, Tianqing was his biological father, and Tianbai, who learned the truth, stopped moving, but there was no wave on his face.
Ju Dou and Tianqing could no longer go out to meet because of the pointing of the townspeople, they had to come to the cellar of the dyeing workshop, this small cellar was their last protective cover, but because the two stayed in the cellar for too long and caused them to faint from lack of oxygen, and then Tianbai found them in the cellar, he first carried his mother out of the cellar, and then carried Tianqing out, but Tianbai took advantage of Tianqing's unconsciousness, he threw him into the dyeing vat, and The suddenly awake Tianqing wanted to climb ashore, but Tianbai lifted a wooden stick to completely knock him down in the dyeing vat.
At the end of the story, the desperate Ju Dou burned everything in the dye vat clean with a fire, and the place where her joy and pain, sadness and heartache were buried, and finally turned into ashes, this film was released in 1990, it was Zhang Yimou's early directing work, the film about the status of women and the corruption of feudal society, all of which were shown by the director with the relationship between Jinshan, Ju Dou and Tianqing, the dyeing workshop is the basis of survival for Jinshan, and for Tianqing is a place to stay. And for Ju Dou, it is a prison and shadow that can never be escaped!