1. Lust, Caution directed by an award-winning director—Ang Lee. This movie depicts a time period of the Imperial Japanese Army and a puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. A group of Lingnan University students that used an attractive young woman to plot a political murder towards their enemy. This young woman must lure, then assassinate a high-ranking official that works for the puppet government. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling for him. This sparked a series of controversies as she was tangled between accomplishing the mission and maintaining an erotic relationship with him.
3. Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang as Chinese 5th generation directors have represented an evolution from socialism to a time when urbanization took firmer cultural hold and focus on the countryside from the socialist period. For example, movies such as To Live and Cell Phone both shown these changes.
In To Live, Fugui was first depicted as a countryside rich gambler and later that leads him to lose everything including his wife and home. The next few years, he struggled to live as a peasant and tries to join the theater troupe. Then, enlisted in the Chinese army, hoping to be a good citizen. As things …show more content…
This film also depicts the role of cell phone unfold in modern China’s interpersonal complex relationships and the rapidness of technology that affect the way people communicate. Feng Xiaogang tries to tell its audience that the people of China at this time period are secretive and men’s loyalty in marriage is not guaranteed. Moreover, Feng Xiaogang emphasizes on female subjectivity, brought out a clear focus on the female characters, such as Shen Xue, Wu Yue, and Yu Wenjuan. Their experiences in the entertainment world, their problems getting jobs, and their family and career
3. Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang as Chinese 5th generation directors have represented an evolution from socialism to a time when urbanization took firmer cultural hold and focus on the countryside from the socialist period. For example, movies such as To Live and Cell Phone both shown these changes.
In To Live, Fugui was first depicted as a countryside rich gambler and later that leads him to lose everything including his wife and home. The next few years, he struggled to live as a peasant and tries to join the theater troupe. Then, enlisted in the Chinese army, hoping to be a good citizen. As things …show more content…
This film also depicts the role of cell phone unfold in modern China’s interpersonal complex relationships and the rapidness of technology that affect the way people communicate. Feng Xiaogang tries to tell its audience that the people of China at this time period are secretive and men’s loyalty in marriage is not guaranteed. Moreover, Feng Xiaogang emphasizes on female subjectivity, brought out a clear focus on the female characters, such as Shen Xue, Wu Yue, and Yu Wenjuan. Their experiences in the entertainment world, their problems getting jobs, and their family and career