China is an ancient civilizations for five millennium years of history; however, the feudalism stamped on Chinese’ minds as heavy burden for three thousand years along with the whole history. Especially, undergoing the Chinese seclusion policy, the Japanese invasion, the Civil War between the Communist and the Nationalist, and the Cultural Revolution. According to Yimou Zhang, “Chinese people are too inhibited; everything in this society is about politics and society. People aren’t people; they are stature is already small, and then they shrink back even further.” It was an appeal to hope for that “restore human feelings and relationship” (Frances 11). It was a call to action as timely as a newly expressed movement by so-called Fifth Generation…show more content… Living under the Cultural Revolution for ten years, Zhang had build a special relationship with peasants and countryside. He claims that the red color played a vital role in every aspect of peasants’ daily life, in rural areas, and in China. An expression of intense visuality in red, which designs in the use of red sorghum, red wine, red clothing, red shoe, red sun, and red blood. The interaction between dark frames and red symbols in Red Sorghum highly emphasizes the contrast. The dark frames illustrate a sense of depression; oppositely, the red stand for fervor. For example, with the beginning scene appeared with a fully black, the female protagonist, Nine, slowly fades in with red cloths and red veil over her head. “The dark symbolizes a stifling environment, the color red suggests the woman’s passion, which actually foreshadows the main theme of the whole film” (Jia-Xuan). Moreover, according to his interview, he asserted…show more content… There are two scenes are highly remarkable. Firstly, the scene, which my grandpa “rapes” my grandma, delivers a passionate attitude approach living under a free-spirited vitality of life. My grandma Nine is an intelligent and independent woman. Rather to describe the behavior as “rape,” my grandma in fact does not reject that she prostrate on the ground. Because she distinctly decides to have an affair with my grandpa and boldly expects to have a passionate life with my grandpa, instead of marrying with the rich leper. For my grandpa, his action is marked as the conquest of women and the colonization of nature. The desire could be describe as that, “a moment of returning the human to its natural elements, and the moment of triumph of the primitive ‘body,’ in all its violence and life force, over the repressive tradition of the Chinese patriarchal society” (David). Furthermore, at the celebrating wine party, my grandpa publicly pees into the wine bottles and takes her to the bedroom in order to show his manliness and wildness over my grandma. Again, my grandma does not refuse because my grandpa’s manliness successfully conquers my grandma. Therefore, “grandpa’s pee has become a paean to the superior capitalist spirits”
