The Gaze in the Movie “Red Sorghun”
Red Sorghum is a movie that was directed by Zhang Yimou and produced by Wu Tianming. The movie was released in 1987 in China. The leading actors in the film are Gong Li and Jiang Wen. Jiu’er’s grandson was the narrator of the film and it addressed the events that happen to his grandparents in the 1930s. The story started with Jiu’er being forced by his father to tie the knot to the leprous proprietor of a cellar. Later Jiu’er was being tricked to believe in one of his workers and had her son. However, at some point, the Japanese assailants’ subjects the area to their canon, and Jiu’er died in the battle with the Japanese assailants. The film is significant in that it addresses various issues that were common in the colonial period. I chose the last four minutes of the movie for the scene analysis, because I think it was the climax of the movie.
The color “Red” in the title is used to illustrate the color of the bloodshed during the anti-Japanese resistance. The community is united, for instance, the sorghum wine. The wine is consumed by the …show more content…
The director had a sharp eye for the visual components of his film and the color red, of the sorghum edit, the wine, the Chinese marriage dress, and blood, saturates the film (Neo). Blood streams openly as the red wine once did when the film winds to its vicious decision, particularly when the film interfaces the wine to dark red symbolism and the other way around. The director took a close-up shot and portrayed his ideal female, even in death, as the color red - hot, splendid, and exceptional like the energy of life. The deeply red setting sun that finishes the film may signify the flat of the Japanese champions, or just the inescapable shortness of each human
Red Sorghum is a movie that was directed by Zhang Yimou and produced by Wu Tianming. The movie was released in 1987 in China. The leading actors in the film are Gong Li and Jiang Wen. Jiu’er’s grandson was the narrator of the film and it addressed the events that happen to his grandparents in the 1930s. The story started with Jiu’er being forced by his father to tie the knot to the leprous proprietor of a cellar. Later Jiu’er was being tricked to believe in one of his workers and had her son. However, at some point, the Japanese assailants’ subjects the area to their canon, and Jiu’er died in the battle with the Japanese assailants. The film is significant in that it addresses various issues that were common in the colonial period. I chose the last four minutes of the movie for the scene analysis, because I think it was the climax of the movie.
The color “Red” in the title is used to illustrate the color of the bloodshed during the anti-Japanese resistance. The community is united, for instance, the sorghum wine. The wine is consumed by the …show more content…
The director had a sharp eye for the visual components of his film and the color red, of the sorghum edit, the wine, the Chinese marriage dress, and blood, saturates the film (Neo). Blood streams openly as the red wine once did when the film winds to its vicious decision, particularly when the film interfaces the wine to dark red symbolism and the other way around. The director took a close-up shot and portrayed his ideal female, even in death, as the color red - hot, splendid, and exceptional like the energy of life. The deeply red setting sun that finishes the film may signify the flat of the Japanese champions, or just the inescapable shortness of each human