There are two nominations for the best foreign language film in China, both of which are directed by Zhang Yimou. One is Hero in 2003 and the other is Ju Dou in 199 1. Thirty years have passed, and now I have a new understanding of chrysanthemum beans.
Classics are circulated because we can always find different angles to interpret them. There are many film reviews about Ju Dou, mostly from the background of the times, characters and the use of movie props, but few people analyze the mapping of characters to real life.
Today, I will analyze the character Yang and see what reference Yang, who killed his father twice, has for our present life.
The story took place in the 1920s. The film tells the tragic fate of Yang's dyehouse Yang Jinshan, Ju Dou and Yang.
Ju Dou is the third wife that Yang Jinshan bought heavily. The first two wives were abused to death by Yang Jinshan, and Ju Dou could not escape the fate of sexual assault. In desperation, Ju Dou chose to seduce Yang Jinshan's adopted son Yang Tianqing to get Yang Tianqing's blessing.
Yang is a nondescript product of Judou (mother) and (brother), and is also the protagonist we are going to discuss today. The image of Tian Bai is presented in three different periods in the film, namely, infancy, childhood and adolescence. I will analyze Tian Bai's character and significance from different periods.
Yang is the 14th generation descendant of Yang family and the only descendant of Yang family. When choosing a name, a person said, "If you take crooked words, the Feng Shui of Yang's family will be finished!" " Thus, the influence and naming of feudal superstition on people in that era also showed the pressure that Tian Bai had to bear in his family.
Blue and white, which means clear and white, is a satire on the love between chrysanthemum and azure. When Yang Jinshan was paralyzed, Ju Dou and Lan Lan blatantly lived together, while Tian Bai was arranged to live with Jinshan on the second floor.
When I was a baby, Tian Bai didn't like laughing. Blue said, "Laugh when you should. I am worried about you. " Blue picked up Tian Bai and sang children's songs to coax him. There will never be such a scene again. Only when Tian Bai was a baby can azur secretly become a father again.
Why doesn't Tian Bai like to laugh? This film aims to imply that Tian Bai was doomed to a tragic fate from infancy, but from the perspective of children's psychological development, it is because Tian Bai lacks attachment to his mother.
According to Freud's theoretical system, breastfeeding is the most important thing from birth to about one and a half years old, so it is called "oral desire period". If the baby is deprived of the need for breastfeeding during this period, the baby will have problems such as distrust, rejection, fear of love and intimacy.
Obviously, Ju Dou and Lan Lan only care about their own happiness and throw Tian Bai to Jinshan. Tian Bai lacks contact with her mother and cannot enjoy the right to breastfeed in time. In addition, Jinshan doesn't treat Tian Bai as his own son at all, which shows the distortion of Tian Bai's character.
Tian Bai is almost three years old, and he hasn't spoken yet. Azure asked Tian Bai to call him Dad, and Tian Bai only cared about playing by himself, ignoring Azure. At this time, Ju Dou began to persuade Lan Lan that the child would grow up.
Tian Bai saw the relationship between chrysanthemum and azure, and he had a puzzled expression. What's he thinking? This is related to the psychological development characteristics of children in this period.
3-6 years old, known as the pre-reproductive period, also known as the Oedipus complex period. Children in this period began to have gender awareness and became interested in their sexual organs.
You will find that children at this stage will regard their father or mother as their rival in love. For example, girls will be more attached to their fathers (Oedipus complex), while boys will be more dependent on their mothers (Oedipus complex), but don't worry, loving their fathers or Oedipus is a very important growth task for children at this stage.
If children can naturally and fully understand the gender differences at this stage and solve their curiosity about gender, it will play a vital role in adult gender identity and attitude towards the opposite sex.
Tian Bai didn't talk all the time, which showed that Ju Dou and Lan were incompetent as parents, which led to Tian Bai's lack of attachment to his mother, and even less recognition of his father's identity. At the same time, the triangle relationship among Jinshan, Judou and Azure also troubled Tian Bai, who could not complete his psychological transformation during the Oedipus complex period.
Jinshan killed Tian Bai while Ju Dou and Lan Lan were away. When he started, Tian Bai subconsciously shouted "Dad". Jinshan was so happy that he forgot to kill Tian Bai and hugged Tian Bai and wept bitterly.
Encouraged by Jinshan, Tian Bai shouted "Niang" to Ju Dou and "Blue Brother" and "Dad" to Jinshan. The puzzle of chrysanthemum and blue forced Tian Bai to explore his identity. This may be the reason why Tian Bai called Jinshan Dad.
Since Tian Bai called his father Jinshan, he, like Jinshan, agreed with the chrysanthemum fight and the blue hatred. There are two plots in the movie in which Jinshan instigated Tian Bai to sow discord, and hatred has since planted seeds in Tian Bai's heart.
First of all, Ju Dou came out of the blue room in the morning and looked up and met Tian Bai standing on the stairs on the second floor. Tian Bai is very young, wearing only a Chinese-style corset, but there is hatred in his eyes. He stared at the chrysanthemum bean savagely, trying to see through it.
Secondly, Azure and Judou had an argument in the house, and Tian Bai threw stones at the outside door. When Zhu Du came out of the house, he saw Tian Bai knocking at the door, but Tian Bai didn't stop, still knocking at the door with stones. Ju Dou slapped Tian Bai in the face, and Tian Bai was staggered. At this time, Jinshan sang a nursery rhyme sung to Tian Bai in sunny childhood on the second floor, symbolizing the victory of Jinshan.
Children's concept of right and wrong is not innate, but is gradually influenced by the external environment and gradually formed after a long period of contact.
Three-year-old Tian Bai didn't understand why he knocked at the door. He only went because his father Jinshan asked him to do so. So when Ju Dou found him, he didn't mean to stop, because he didn't know that knocking at the door was wrong.
Tian Bai inadvertently dragged Jinshan into the water, watching Jinshan struggling in the water. Tian Bai laughed: The person who incited hatred died, and the first resistance to fate was quietly completed inadvertently.
After the death of Jinshan, Ju Dou and Tian Qing had another quarrel in front of the mourning hall. Tian Bai was absorbed in his eyes, but his face was expressionless.
Childhood Tian Bai should have been attached to her mother, but Zhu Du only cared about her own love and ignored her love for Tian Bai. In Ju Dou's eyes, she thinks that time will cure everything, and children can learn by themselves without a teacher. But what she didn't expect was that she said, "It will be fine when the child grows up." This attitude laid the groundwork for Tian Bai's later personality distortion.
Tian Bai, who is eleven or twelve years old, is still expressionless and has no lines. Zhu Du handed the brush to Tian Bai and said, "Your brother bought you a new brush." Tian Bai turned away.
Ju Dou and Lan Lan met in an abandoned cave and were seen by people in the same village. Witnesses talk about them everywhere. Tian Bai took the pig-killing knife that Tianqing saved Ju Dou and ran after the rumor mongers, which shows that Tian Bai is under great pressure from public opinion. How strong is the self-esteem of children of this age, but they are beaten to pieces by everyone.
Tian Bai wasn't hurt. Sunny wanted to give him something. Tian Bai vented all his resentment against his neighbors on Tianqing. Ju Dou angrily told Tian Bai that Tian Qing was his biological father, but Tian Bai was indifferent. Tian Bai hates that he is the son of Tianqing.
Judou and Azure couldn't sleep every day, so they decided to be husband and wife again. They ran to the cellar and would rather suffocate than go out.
Tian Bai looked for chrysanthemums and azure everywhere, and later found them in the cellar, so Tian Bai carried them out. Looking at the coma chrysanthemum bean mouth has been shouting "azure, azure", Tian Bai turned and carried azure out.
At this point, you may think that there are some remnants of Tian Bai's destroyed humanity. However, the sky is white and blue. Instead of saving him, I killed him myself. Tian Bai threw the blue into the pool where the cloth was dyed, picked up a stick and threw it at the blue without hesitation. HongLing falls and drowns the blue.
The seeds of hatred incited by childhood finally broke out at this moment. From the point of view of Oedipus complex, Tian Bai killed his nominal father, Jinshan, in order to kill hatred, his biological father, Lan, and his weak self.
If Tian Bai killed Jinshan for the first time is an unconscious act, then killing his biological father Blue this time is a complete rebellion against fate.
The white world is very quiet. He doesn't have to refute whose son he is, because from now on he has only one identity-the son of Ju Dou.
Tian Bai's life is doomed to be a tragedy, and he has no choice. Growing up in a family without warmth, contradictions and hatred constantly tore at Tian Bai's young mind, and the criticism of her mother and her life experience after growing up eventually led to the distortion of Tian Bai's character.
An excellent film is a mirror, which projects the audience's heart and dissects the audience's subconscious. Yang Tianbai in Ju Dou, the biggest reference for us today, is to let us truly feel the important influence of parents on their children.
In the movie, Ju Dou told Lan many times that it would be fine if the child grew up. In the concept of chrysanthemum, time seems to smooth everything out. But the fact is that childhood trauma will accompany the child's life. Some people come out, not because they have forgiven some people for something, but because they have "forgotten".
Suhomlinski said in Parental Pedagogy:
I hope everyone's parents, as well as us who will become parents one day, can understand this truth.