Lu Xun once said: "Tragedy is to break beautiful things for people to see." "In Zhang Yimou's films, women are always sexually repressed. They are just as young and beautiful, but they do not erupt in sexual repression, or perish in sexual repression.
The movie "Ju Dou", launched in 1990, depicts the sexual repression under feudal etiquette to the fullest. Ju Dou is the same as them, but also different, it is unfortunate in such a sexually repressive background, she is a victim, and she is also a warrior, trying again and again to break through the shackles of fate.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > under the multicolored dyeing cloth is a day of humiliation</h1>
In the 1920s, Yang Jinshan, a grumpy and physically defective dyeing homeowner, still did not die after torturing two women to death, and spent a lot of money to buy a young and beautiful woman - Ju Dou in order to continue the incense
Picture of the movie "Ju Dou"
Ju Dou is a long-term worker in the dyeing room during the day and a tool for Yang Jinshan to vent his lust at night. Yang Jinshan often verbally tortured while beating Ju Dou
Yang Jinshan's nephew Yang Tianqing saw all this in his eyes, and the first time he saw Ju Dou, he was amazed by the beauty of Ju Dou and awakened his inner desire for the opposite sex
It is also this desire that makes Yang Tianqing often think about Ju Dou when she works during the day, and even can't resist peeking at the young aunt taking a bath
At night, listening to Ju Dou, who was beaten and cried bitterly by his uncle, he also tossed and turned, and tried to rescue Ju Dou countless times, but he gave up because he was afraid of his uncle Yang Jinshan
Even if you have already carried your knife to the stairs, you will only hold back your anger and rush to the stairs
On the other hand, Ju Dou had actually discovered Yang Tianqing's voyeurism long ago, and at the beginning she angrily blocked the peeping hole
When Ju Dou was once again beaten by Yang Jinshan and was full of scars, she remembered the knife marks at the staircase, so she decided to grab Yang Tianqing's life-saving straw, took the initiative to open the peeping hole, put down her shame when she took a bath at night, and boldly undressed and faced the peeping place, so that Yang Tianqing could see clearly
However, although Yang Tianqing had the idea of helping Ju Dou, he did not have the guts, on the surface Yang Jinshan was his uncle who had the grace to nurture him, in fact, he was only employed by Yang Jinshan, and he still had to rely on Yang Jinshan to live, coupled with the shackles of ethics, Yang Tianqing did not dare to take a step
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > lonely and difficult desires</h1>
Ju Dou began to take advantage of Yang Jinshan's lack of attention, verbal provocation to take the initiative to approach Yang Tianqing, at first Yang Tianqing would hinder each other's identity and deliberately keep a distance.
On the one hand, there is the old single stick who suppresses desire, and on the other hand, the lonely wife who is difficult to fill, a good drama of stealing love is quietly brewing.
Until this time, Ju Dou hugged Yang Tianqing's body from behind, Yang Tianqing felt the softness of the woman, the inner desire was no longer controlled, directly threw down Ju Dou, the two could not help but hug together, Ju Dou's moans resounded throughout the room.
Dry firewood meets fire, desire is like a flood of drainage gates, out of control, tasted the sweetness of Yang Tianqing and Ju Dou, began to find various opportunities to enjoy the joy of fish and water together
One after another, Ju Dou was pregnant, and told Yang Tianqing for the first time, counting the days, this child should be his
However, Yang Jinshan, the wronged head, did not know about this matter, and thought that the child was his own, and began to get better to Ju Dou
He even told Yang Tianqing not to wake up the sleeping Ju Dou,
But what Yang Jinshan didn't know was that as soon as he left, Ju Dou and Yang Tianqing immediately rolled together and made love.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the "innocence" of sin</h1>
Soon, Ju Dou gave birth to a big fat boy, Yang Jinshan was ecstatic, invited the respected old man in the patriarch village, and carefully named the child Yang Tianbai.
The word innocence is extremely ironic
On this day, Yang Tianqing and Ju Dou were lying together for a secret meeting, and suddenly heard the sound of opening the door between the conversations, the two of them panicked and climbed up, thinking that Yang Jinshan had returned, ju Dou even made psychological preparations for a showdown, and as a result, there was only a donkey accompanying Yang Jinshan at the door
Then Yang Tianqing looked for it along the road, and found the unconscious Yang Jinshan in the middle of the mountainside, at first he wanted to throw the old man on his back off the cliff, but he still gave up because of his nurturing grace
Although Yang Jinshan's life was picked up, but the half-paralyzed body could only be bedridden all day, since then Ju Dou and Yang Tianqing have also had a lot less concerns and restrictions, Ju Dou put on the wedding dress and put up the bride's head, Yang Tianqing also dressed very solemnly, and the two drank after another cloud and rain.
Their laughter made Yang Jinshan suspicious, climbed out of bed and tripped Ju Dou back to the house, grabbing her hair to strangle Ju Dou
Fortunately, his legs and feet were inconvenient, and Ju Dou, who had been angry for a long time, escaped the disaster and simply told Yang Jinshan everything
Yang Jinshan could not bear this humiliation, he wanted revenge, wanted to kill the children in front of him, and even set them on fire, but each time it ended in failure
Later, Yang Tianqing simply began to restrict Yang Jinshan's movements, put him in a hanging wooden barrel, and dragged him out to bask in the sun every day to wipe his body, and the people in the village praised Jinshan for being blessed, and Yang Tianqing was more filial than his son
And Ju Dou also viciously let Yang Jinshan live.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the ashes after the fire is burned</h1>
Time slowly passed, Tianbai also grew up a little, but he still could not speak, Yang Tianqing let Tianbai call Daddy did not get a response
One day, Tianbai was playing alone next to the pool, Yang Jinshan saw it, and wanted to take advantage of the fact that no one was pushing Tianbai into the pool, he slowly approached Tianbai, but he did not expect that Tianbai suddenly turned his head and shouted a father, which made Jinshan not go down, but began to really regard Tianbai as his own son.
He taught Tianbai to call Yang Tianqing "brother", wanting to disgust Yang Tianqing with this, listening to Tianbai's mouthful of a brother, Yang Tianqing's five tastes were mixed, and the judou on the side was also very embarrassed
At Tianbai's third birthday party, the clan members joined in the fun and asked Yang Tianqing to say a few auspicious words to his brother Tianbai, but Yang Tianqing could only shout in pain and then cry
Later, when Yang Jinshan was playing with Tianbai by the pool, he wanted to dye Tianbai with dog tail grass, the rope was unfortunately hooked by Tianbai, Yang Jinshan fell into the dyeing pool with a wooden barrel, watching the person who was called his father desperately struggling in the water, tianbai on the side showed a rare smile, and Ju Dou who came back saw this scene and couldn't help but be stunned
In this way, Jinshan drowned, according to the family's rules, Yang Tianqing wanted to move out of the dyeing room, he and Judou had to secretly meet, after growing up Tianbai bumped into each other several times, more and more unwilling to see Yang Tianqing, so the two had to go to the field to meet, accidentally bumped into, for a time the village rumors were everywhere
Tianbai is well aware of the relationship between Ju Dou and Yang Tianqing, but in the face of gossip and gossip in the village, he will still use a kitchen knife to chase after the so-called "rumor-mongers" and defend his mother
When he returned home that day, Tianbai angrily kicked down Yang Tianqing, and when his mother Judou saw this scene, the angry Judou shouted the truth to his son who was hiding in the room
Although he knew that Yang Tianqing was his biological father, Tianbai still did not give Yang Tianqing a good face
The weather gradually cooled, and the bodies of the two people who went to the field could not stand it, so they could only take advantage of the fact that Tianbai was not at home, and once again enjoyed the joy of long-lost fish and water in the cellar, reliving old dreams, and finally almost suffocated due to lack of oxygen
Returning home, Tianbai found the two people in the cellar who were not neatly dressed, he carried his mother back to the room, turned around and threw the unconscious biological father "Yang Tianqing" into the dyeing pool, without the slightest hesitation, and even picked up the stick next to him when Yang Tianqing was struggling
Ju Dou, who woke up, struggled to climb down the stairs to stop his son, but Yang Tianqing was still dead, the dyeing cloth was covered on Yang Tianqing's body, Ju Dou was very desperate, a fire lit the dyeing room, the sky was white, the fire was burning, and more than ten years of enmity and resentment turned into ashes in this fire, and the film ended here
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the joy of "YangJia Dyeing Workshop"</h1>
The film "Ju Dou" is the first Chinese mainland film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
This film, ostensibly, uses the story of men and women stealing love to show the suppression and obliteration of human nature and desire by the feudal etiquette of the old society
In fact, it shows the dependence of the peasants on the land in the old society. This dependence is reflected in the fact that you can't survive without the land, and when you are old, you pay attention to the roots of the leaves
In the movie, the land becomes the "Yang Family Dyeing Factory", and it is not so much that the four of them cannot get rid of the suppression of feudal etiquette, but rather that they cannot get out of this dyeing workshop
Leaving the dyeing workshop, we will lose the foundation of survival, and if we stay in the dyeing factory, we will be imprisoned and suppressed
This is also why Yang Tianqing had the opportunity to escape from the dyeing workshop but never left. Because of the deep-rooted "small farmer" consciousness in his bones, he lost the courage to leave the land
All those who are trapped in the dye house, whether they are against the grain or resist, the final outcome is the same. This is also why in the end, when Ju Dou is infallible, he will choose a fire to burn the dye shop.
In "Ju Dou", the release of Ju Dou, the female consciousness, is a failure, but this cannot be blamed on Ju Dou, but on the repressive feudal system, which does not give people a way to live.
This is a fate that cannot be changed no matter how hard you try