30 years ago, Gong Li starred in a movie "Ju Dou", which is adapted from Liu Heng's novel "Fu Xi Fu Xi", which tells the family story of the mountainous area in the 1920s.
The love-hate relationship between the heroine Ju Dou and her husband Yang Jinshan and her nephew Tianqing in the film not only makes this movie full of deformed love, but also full of feudal etiquette suppression and wordless dialogue.
And Gong Li uses a large-scale performance to interpret Ju Dou's love and lust, love and love, sorrow and helplessness to the fullest, for Ju Dou, she is a character who wanders on the edge of extramarital affairs, which is both her inner repression and needs, but also a pale cry in the helplessness forced by life.
<h1>01 Behind the deformed love of the nephew and aunt is the imbalance of the intimate relationship between husband and wife</h1>
Ju Dou is a beautiful and bitter young woman, she married Yang Jinshan, a man over 50 years old, but her husband not only beat her, but also became very perverted on the bed. The husband always did his best to torture Ju Dou, making Ju Dou scream every day that he should not do it, and the ground was not good, so he had to silently endure her husband's abuse.
But Ju Dou was helpless, and had to endure physical pain, but also to endure her husband's inexplicable and wonderful beatings, and the terrible thing was that her husband's first two wives were tortured and died by him.
In the face of a loveless marriage, in the face of an abusive husband, Ju Dou's inner bitterness is self-evident, and it was at this time that she noticed her husband's nephew 40-year-old bare stick Tianqing.
Once, after being beaten and tortured by her husband for a night, Judou came to the water room to prepare for the bath, and at this time, Tianqing just happened to pass by and peeked at the process of Judou's bathing.
For Tianqing, a 40-year-old single stick, the desire for women is naturally self-evident, especially Ju Dou's young and plump body, which makes him feel unguarded, and even moved his heart and feelings instantly.
Moreover, Tianqing naturally knew that his uncle Yang Jinshan had abused several aunts, but because of the juniors, he was not good at saying anything, but he hid these loves and admirations in his heart.
The clever Ju Dou also naturally knew that her nephew had intentional or unintentional eyes on her, so in order to survive, in order to get rid of Yang Jinshan, she decided to seduce Tianqing.
So Ju Dou chose to take the risk, and after careful planning, successfully seduced his nephew Tianqing, and the two opened the "Wild Mandarin Duck" next to the dyeing workshop.
It can also be said that it is Ju Dou who did not get any love from her husband Yang Jinshan, so it led to an extramarital affair with her nephew. Or at this time, ju dou's choice is not only to satisfy the body's desires, but also because of the instinct to survive.
In other words, she is afraid that she will be abused to death by her husband in the long run, so she can only survive by looking for "foreign aid".
<h1>02 The root of Ju Dou's love and desire hides the shackles of feudal etiquette</h1>
Although Judou initially expressed surprise and shyness at first for her behavior of seducing her nephew, she had no other choice but to survive. In the face of her husband's rudeness and violence, she could not lose the opportunity to seize her life, so she did not hesitate to choose Azure.
It's just that Tianqing's natural weakness and timidity did not give Judou the protection she deserved, and when Judou proposed to elope, the timid Tianqing did not dare to "betray" her uncle, let alone run away from home.
This made Ju Dou very disappointed, but at this time, Ju Dou could be described as a dilemma. Because she found out she was pregnant, it was both happy and frightening for them. They were afraid that yang Jinshan would not let them go after he knew the truth.
For Tianqing, he has no father and no mother, and it is his uncle Yang Jinshan who adopted him, so emotionally he respects his uncle, but in the relationship between men and women, he is really addicted to his aunt Ju dou.
But although his uncle adopted him, he was not only very stingy with him, but also not friendly, and even used him only as a tool of labor.
In this sense, he and his aunt Ju Dou are connected to the same fate, mainly in three aspects:
First of all, Both Azure and Judou were just Tools of Yang Jinshan. The difference is only that azure is a tool of labor, while juju beans are tools of sexual catharsis;
Secondly, Tianqing and Judou are bitter people, and they have not received the warmth and love of the family since childhood;
In the end, they all have a desire and yearning for beauty, but Tianqing is too cowardly, and Judou is too strong, and the personalities of the two people are very opposite.
It is these three aspects that not only cause the deep love between them, but also cause the invisible estrangement between the two people, which can be described as: the three views are different, so the concepts cannot be integrated.
And these incompuncies were the shackles of feudal etiquette, so that they loved helplessly and passionately, but this love could not be recognized in the society at that time.
<h1>03 Behind the absurdity of human nature, there is the tragedy of the times</h1>
Tianqing and Judou's love is becoming more and more inseparable, and even they have a child Tianbai. Yang Jinshan, who finally learned the truth, suffered a stroke and was paralyzed.
At this time, Tianqing and Judou did not ignore Yang Jinshan, but on the one hand, they took good care of him, on the other hand, the two people deliberately fished in front of him, and finally Yang Jinshan had to torture the two people with the child Tianbai.
Once, when he used the child to embarrass Tianqing and Judou again, he unfortunately fell into the dyeing vat and drowned. After Yang Jinshan's death, the clan drove Tianqing out and demanded that he not be allowed to step into the Yang family for half a step.
And Tianqing and Judou, who are truly in love, had to secretly seek pleasure in the cellar in private, until they were discovered by their son Tianbai, and finally tianbai designed to push Tianqing into the dyeing vat and drown alive.
Ju Dou, who experienced this scene, loved and hated each other, and she both felt sorry for her lover Tianqing and hated the cruelty of her son Tianbai, so she put the Yang family on fire.
It can also be seen from the stories of Tianqing and Judou that in the feudal era, the requirements for women's chastity were very high, on the one hand, because women had no status, and on the other hand, because men had control over everything. Even if they truly love each other, if they violate the etiquette, they will be considered rebellious and even intolerable to society and the times.
Behind this absurd story, not only the truth of a woman's extramarital affair is very thorough, nothing more than the dissatisfaction of love and desire, but also the beauty and ugliness of human nature are dug deeply.
<h1>04 Lily Summary</h1>
The mountainous area where Ju Dou married is a beautiful place, with sky-blue mountains, but also with the tranquility of green bricks and tiles, and with the harmony of scenery.
But beneath the surface of harmony is an undercurrent of emotions, and the happiness and stability that cannot be sought. If Ju Dou had not been abused by her husband, if her husband had not been so dehumanized, then this love affair with her niece and aunt might not have happened, and the cruelty of killing her father would not have occurred.
The author of the original novel "Fu Xi Fu Xi" also quotes the Oedipus Complex in psychology, commonly known as the Oedipus complex, which originally derived from a view advocated by Freud.
In the end, Tianbai chose to kill his biological father Tianqing, which also stemmed from the protection and love for his mother. I have to say that this is a tragedy created by the times.
And Gong Li also played the character of Ju Dou "alive" through large-scale performances, and reproduced a woman's despair very realistically by her contradictions and struggles, love and sorrow, dreams and annihilation.
For women, men cannot provide a sense of security, and only by relying on themselves can they live a lifetime without regrets.
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