5 selected essays on "Red Sorghum"

"Red Sorghum" tells a very old story, which is not something people my age like to watch. When I first heard the name "Red Sorghum", I thought it was telling a perfect emotional story. In the red sorghum field, a pair of childhood sweethearts separated and reunited and finally came together again. It was a beautiful emotional story. Maybe people of our generation are used to watching TV movies about love and love, and everything can be associated with love and love, but we don't know that this story is completely opposite.

A poor girl is about to marry an old man with leprosy, and a bearer falls in love with the poor girl. Everything that happened in the meantime told about their ordinary relationship, and also about the simplicity of people's lives at that time. This story takes place in those sorghum fields covered with lush sorghum, which also adds a charm to the story.

This story begins with the idea of ??favoring boys over girls. The daughter is useless. In order to improve her life, she sells her daughter to an old man who is dying of leprosy. Has the life of girls been so poor since ancient times! I What I want to complain about is: Girls at that time had no status. It was too heartless for the parents to sell a beautiful girl just for some money. The heroine Feng Lian in the story gave herself to the bearer Yu Zhan'ao. Even if it is not a matter of love, this boy is at least better than the old man with leprosy! This scene is to tell the audience that what girls want is just a man who can Guys, take good care of yourself instead of selling yourself for money. But fortunately, the old man was killed and happiness came. We must firmly believe that the God of Luck is always by our side. What we have to do is to treat life well, and life will not be stingy to us.

The relationship has come to fruition, the children have grown up slowly, the best sorghum wine has been brewed, and life has become more and more prosperous. When life is peaceful and beautiful, something will always happen. Japanese vehicles trampled the peaceful sorghum fields, and the village was no longer peaceful. The brutality of the Japanese was in sharp contrast to the kindness of the Chinese. The Japanese cruelly asked butchers to skin people. I think only the Japanese would do such a cruel thing. Otherwise, how could germ warfare occur in China?

This story also tells us, let us remember the pain of history and the inhumanity of the Japanese. We Chinese must constantly strive for self-improvement and cannot lose to small forces. Japan!

To be honest, I don’t understand much about this story, nor do I understand it very well. But the truth in the story is understood by ordinary people. It tells about humanity, freedom, life, and unity. It is also a praise of people's life at that time. It was so simple and simple, without any false pretense, and faced the reality head-on. Not every story can tell some truths so straightforwardly. People of our generation need to watch more movies with this theme before they can understand people's lives at that time and truly understand the truths that the movies want to express. Is it to criticize reality or praise history?

The title "Red Sorghum" fits this story. The beginning of the story takes place in the sorghum field, and the end of the story cannot be separated from the sorghum field. This piece of sorghum field is left to It has imprinted the wealth and history of the people in the village.

Thoughts after watching "Red Sorghum"

After watching this movie, it was just like what Douer said at the end of the movie, my eyes were full of red, and at first it was the red of love. Finally, there is the redness of blood.

It was very simple at first. I saw Jiuer wearing a bright red dress as a bride, but she married an old man in his forties or fifties who had leprosy. Although he felt aggrieved by Jiuer's father for selling his daughter to pay back the money, the scene on the way to see the bride was... It makes people feel quite happy. When Jiuer opened the sedan curtain and took a peek, I thought she might have been attracted. Growing up in such a poor and remote place, she must have never been out much, and she had never seen such a strong boy, not to mention that the man she was going to marry was still such a sick and sick old man. Yu Zhan'ao's back must have been burned into the young girl's heart. The porters were tossing the bride, but Jiu'er refused to speak, so they bumped the sedan chair and sang, which made people feel lively. The endless yellow land makes people feel majestic. A few northwest men and a red sedan chair add a lot of vitality to this majestic scene. Yu Zhanao probably felt some pity and distress for the poor girl in his heart. Jiu'er still didn't say a word, so he asked everyone to stop tossing her. Then the important wild sorghum field in the movie appeared.

It's quite scary to say that this place is haunted, and the weird sounds of the wind blowing sorghum leaves are quite frightening. It turns out it's to add some atmosphere to the appearance of the robbers pretending to be Tusanpao. After all, he was just one person, and he was still killed by the porters. But this robber scene is really important, otherwise Jiu'er wouldn't have come out of the sedan chair. Yu Zhan'ao, who was squatting next to the sedan chair, turned around and looked back at Jiu'er, who was walking towards the sorghum field. Their eyes happened to meet. Or maybe they were looking for each other. They must have fallen in love with each other. When they arrived at Shibalipo, Yu Zhan'ao's mission was completed and there was no reason to stay, so he left. However, anyone who has watched this movie will never forget his reluctant figure against the vast sky and earth when he left.

Jiuer is also a girl with a lot of personality. Although she can only accept her fate and marry someone she doesn’t like according to her father’s arrangement, she carries a pair of scissors with her and even compares herself to a mule. It is still important that my father sever ties with me. This decision is admirable, or maybe there is nothing admirable at all, it is just the conditioned reflex of everyone who is forced to a dead end by fate. He was robbed on the way back home, and he was originally filled with fear. The moment he saw the man take off his mask, the fear in Jiu'er's heart should have been replaced by joy. Everything that happened next in the wild sorghum fields was more of a voluntary act than an occupation. It is better to devote yourself to the one you love than to be wasted by an old man. The smile on Jiu'er's mouth after getting back on the mule and the song Yu Zhan'ao sang with Jiu'er and his father hidden in the sorghum field? Sister, please go forward boldly? Let us feel the joy in their hearts. What's unique is that Jiu'er is also a married woman, but doing this kind of thing makes people think of dirty words like a married woman cheating, because her marriage is a failure.

The shopkeeper of the shochu workshop died. The narrator said that he firmly believed that it was his grandfather who did it. I also believe this, and speaking of personal characteristics, in my heart I did not feel pity for the loss of a life, nor did I feel sorry for the murderer. To condemn, on the contrary, he was happy for Jiu'er's freedom. In the subsequent scenes, the pity for Jiu'er completely turned into admiration. The shopkeeper died and the guys had to leave. Ordinary girls would definitely be at a loss and end up tragically, but Jiu'er used her sincerity to keep everyone here. The shochu workshop was saved. At this time, the person who should appear appeared. If Yu Zhan'ao really killed the former shopkeeper, how could he not come when Jiu'er became a widow. But this guy was drunk and talking nonsense. Although what he said was true, the unmodified words of a grown boy still made the little girl Jiuer feel embarrassed, not to mention that she was the shopkeeper at the moment and wanted to keep some money for herself. Lower dignity. Even though I love him in my heart, I still have to push him out the door together with his luggage.

Being rejected by his beloved, the drunken Yu Zhan'ao stayed in the wine tank for three days and three nights. One reason may be that he was drunk, but if he sinned again, he should sober up the next day. The deeper reason The reason is probably that his beloved girl was kidnapped by Tu San Pao, and he didn't want to see the fact that Jiu'er was ruined by Tu San Pao. Jiu'er was a strong girl after all. After everyone raised enough ransom to redeem her, she slowly got better. At everyone's invitation, she watched the process of brewing sorghum wine. The men only wore their underwear and worked enthusiastically, while the red sorghum wine flowed out. The clear red color made people very fond of seeing it. The songs everyone sang together when worshiping the god of wine were also very powerful. It allows people to see how spiritually rich people are when their material lives are not rich, and their smiles come from the bottom of their hearts.

At this time, the uninvited guest came again. Yu Zhan'ao probably wanted to vent his dissatisfaction, so he urinated into the newly brewed wine and carried Jiu'er into the house. At this time, Jiu'er no longer resisted. Maybe after being kidnapped by Tu Sanpao, She has put down her dignity and scruples and decided to be with the one she loves. Unexpectedly, Yu Zhan'ao's prank made the sorghum wine taste better than ever before. Brother Luohan put the brewed wine at Jiuer's door, but Yu Zhan'ao came to open the door. He knew what happened and left the shochu workshop the next day.

At this time, I have to mention the character of Brother Arhat. He watched Jiu'er get married. He stayed with a group of older boys all day long and suddenly there was a beautiful girl beside him. He would definitely feel good about it. Although it was a pity that the girl married an old boy with leprosy, after all, Her wife, who was already the shopkeeper, no longer had any trouble thinking about anything. But then the shopkeeper died, and Jiu'er asked him to help him take care of the family affairs. He saw hope again, and for the sake of his beloved girl, he readily agreed.

But who would have expected that Cheng Yaojin would appear halfway, and the appearance of Yu Zhan'ao made him completely give up. There was no reason to stay anymore. Jiu'er no longer needed him, so he had no choice but to leave. Brother Luohan's love for Jiu'er is deep, but his departure also made Jiu'er understand his affection for him.

To use a common saying, the prince and the princess lived happily together. Although Yu Zhan'ao was not a prince, Jiu'er was not a princess, and the shochu workshop was not a beautiful castle, but they were married together with the one they loved. What more could you ask for? The story would have been too perfect at that point. Such a story would not leave a big impression on people. The story took a turn at that point. One day several years later, Jiu'er recognized the figure watching her from a distance and chased him. She identified him as the eldest brother Arhat at that time. Why did someone who disappeared for so long come back? Perhaps it was because he knew he was on a road of no return and wanted to see the girl he had been waiting for before.

In the subsequent development of the plot, the bright red turned into dark red. The Japanese came, and in order to build roads, they captured people and trampled the sorghum fields. In order to make the Chinese people listen to them, they want to kill chickens to scare monkeys. They hung a man high and had a boy skin him alive. The man raised his head, and it turned out that he was Tu San Pao. When he kidnapped Jiu'er and Yu Zhan'ao went to fight for him, he spared Yu Zhan'ao's life. This shows that this man is very loyal to the world. Although he is a bandit-like person and has done a lot of evil in his daily life, among the Japanese In front of him, he still rose up to resist, and the image of a bandit was instantly transformed into a hero. Fortunately, the buddy's loyalty gave him a happy ending. But Brother Arhat was not so lucky. He was skinned alive, but he kept cursing the Japanese until he died. I am not a nationalist, and I used to resent the endless anti-war films on TV. There are no vigorous war scenes in this film, but it is more heart-wrenching. It shows the most cruel side of the Japanese in front of us, making us feel sad for the suffering compatriots.

People at that time were not afraid of death. Yu Zhan'ao and Jiu'er returned to the shochu workshop and used the eighteen-mile red brewed by the Arhat brother to commemorate him. Every boy in the workshop drank a bowl of wine and swore to avenge Brother Arhat, even the young Dou'er. They sang the song dedicated to the god of wine. When this song was first sung, Brother Arhat was still there, and everyone was so happy to have brewed good wine. But hearing this toast song now, it was really a different flavor. ?Drink our wine, don’t kowtow when you see the emperor? ?One, four, seven, three, six, nine, ninety-nine, come with me, good wine? These two lyrics confused me at first, but when I look at it carefully, it seems that the emperor is The men in our soju workshop will not bow our heads when meeting the Japanese. Jiujiuguiyi is like an oath to regard death as home, declaring their determination.

But fate is not controlled by anyone. Jiuer was shot and killed on the way to deliver food to the boys, and died in front of Yu Zhan'ao. The men rushed forward with lit sorghum wine to the sound of trombones and blew up the Japanese car. But he didn't come back alive. Only Yu Zhan'ao survived. Facing the dead Jiuer, he sang the song "Sister, you go forward boldly" again. Songs that once expressed the love of young men and women when they fell in love have now become tributes to loved ones who can never come back. ?My sister walked forward boldly, go forward, and don’t look back? At this time, Jiuer was already on the way to another world. It was originally a cheerful song, but it made people unable to help but shed tears. Come. Don't look back, it's not that you don't want to come back, it's that you won't be able to come back. Dou'er pointed at the red sun that was slowly being swallowed up in the sky and told her dad to look at it. The round red sun finally disappeared, as if it foreshadowed that the Japanese would disappear in China sooner or later, and then the sun slowly appeared again, as if giving us expect. Brighter days are ahead. At the end of the story, Dou'er sang to the dead Jiu'er, "Mother, mother, you go to the southwest, you live in your sweet place, and you turn money into hard work?" This is Dou'er's perfect wish, but after watching this movie, I I still don’t understand why I have to go to the Southwest and turn my suffering into money.

After watching this movie, I am afraid that when I see red in the future, I will think of red sorghum, a beautiful relationship, and a group of brave and simple people.

Reflections after watching Red Sorghum

The feelings of hurting autumn burst out with a kind of fire-like heroism, just like the strong and tragic red tone shown in the entire movie. It seems that the enthusiasm is a little depressing, which is the sense of oppression brought by the gloomy reality.

Zhang Yimou's unique vision and Gu Changwei's detailed outlines used folk songs to sing out its simplicity and enthusiasm on the loess soil of northern Shaanxi, and used the most direct "Yehe" to swear against the old ethics. The tall red sorghum and the red sorghum wine all seem to imply that a war is about to break out.

After watching "Red Sorghum", I fell deeply in love with Shang Jiu'er, a girl born on the ninth day of September, a simple peasant girl who was unwilling to be controlled by her destiny. (lz13) He hated his father for comparing him to a big black mule, and shouted angrily in despair: "Go with your mule, I will never come back." ?Overturning the table is like overturning the entire feudal ethics and the shackles of arranged marriage. She is rebellious, but thoughtful. She protects her chastity with scissors and pursues her own happiness passionately and persistently.

Yes, she had already secretly fallen in love with the sedan bearer, a northern man with a dark, strong body and a shiny bald head that was the epitome of a rough and unruly character. She is brave, because in this social background, feelings may have become the best carrier of resistance, so she has already made up her mind in her heart regardless of worldly prejudices and gossip. As a female shopkeeper and a girl with a family business, she is generous, sincere and hard-working. She used her sincerity and intelligence to retain a large group of brothers, and with her diligence and ability, the family business continued to develop.

Sorghum wine is as red as fire and blood. On a blood-stained day, her fallen body was resolute and uncomplaining. There were no sad tears, but she still remembered her calm and calm smile, which was so beautiful and moving. She was calm. When the invaders invaded, she and the people in the sorghum field chose to fight and defend their homeland. How resolute was this?

Red, as passionate as fire, as frightening as blood. Heart. The red sorghum field, the red sunset, the shockingly red passionate woman? I met you in the years of such passionate burning!

Reflections on Red Sorghum

"Red Sorghum" is a legend with mythical meaning. The whole novel praises human nature and vigorous vitality in a mysterious color. Therefore, praising life is the theme of the book. ?It is to praise life through the shaping of character personality, praise the endless vitality of life, and praise the freedom and stretch of life.

"Red Sorghum" is not a very realistic work, nor is it a search for the roots of national culture. On the contrary, in this story narrated in the past tense that connects three generations, what is created is a personality with future benefits, a personality ideal that transcends the specific social surface and has the depth of human nature and essence. "Red" The theme called for by "Sorghum" from beginning to end is vigorous vitality, which is to promote an undistorted, unrestrained, and open outlook on life. therefore. The work before the reader is not a world that has been understood, but an ideal of life in a world. This ideal is found in the mythology of sun worship. "Red Sorghum" is different from any previous book that reflects farmers. Its perspective has shifted from the traditional praise of the land to the praise of life. The extraordinary nature of the story determines the unreality of the narrative, and the location of the story is downplayed. In "Red Sorghum", the most basic structure of society, the village, is even downplayed. All narrative elements and audio-visual elements of "Red Sorghum" serve this warm, free and joyful style of natural life.

Unlike previous exploration novels, although "Red Sorghum" also carries the author's thoughts on the theme of life, it is not like "Yellow Earth" and other exploration novels that downplay the plot and rely on pure language shock. To directly express the director's ideas. In this second novel, the author starts from reality, starting from the specific characters in the prescribed situation, and weaves a complete, beautiful and touching story framework, so that the ideas can naturally flow out through the twists and turns of the story, the characters' behaviors and actions. Here, how does the author achieve the perfect combination of the two through specific methods?

First of all, "Red Sorghum" itself has a complete story line, but most of this narrative line It is completed by the feeling of words. At the beginning of "Red Sorghum", my narration came out; I will tell you about this incident about my grandfather and grandmother. This incident is still mentioned in my hometown. ?This is a reading point that is narrated in this moment. This? I? am the narrator of the story here.

Since he does not appear in the story, he is an objective narrator, but he is also a descendant of the characters in the story, which gives him a certain sense of participation and thus has the benefit of being narrated. Therefore, this reading point is very unique and novel. It allows the author to have a comfortable reading point reference when dealing with "Red Sorghum", which is very free and omniscient. At the same time, the characteristics of his narrative distance the story and have a historical alienation effect. On the basis of this reader, "Red Sorghum" makes the fictional nature of the story clear in this opening. ?As time goes by, some people believe it and some people don’t believe it. ?Thus, the story can be easily incorporated into unrealistic time and space.

The main plot turning points in "Red Sorghum", such as the relationship between the characters, the surrounding environment, and the change of time, are almost all felt by readers. Such as the relationship between my grandma and the leprosy shopkeeper Li Datou, the "ghost spirit" in Gaoliang Land, the rules for a bride to return to her hometown three days after her wedding, the murder of Li Datou, the process of Tu Sanpao kidnapping my grandma, the escape of Uncle Arhat, the Japanese Appearance etc. "Red Sorghum" also assumes a "prenarrative" function. For example, when setting off, the reader is told that the sedan chair will be my grandfather. This increases the reader's "anticipation and desire to read" and makes the story progress. More tension. The space and text in "Red Sorghum" can be used as freely as possible. Most of the text is used to express the bumping of sedan chairs, robbery, wild marriages, toasts to gods, and total solar eclipses, allowing the ideas to be attached to the specific pictures and attached to them. Each ritual has a strong symbolic meaning of life, thus reaching an artistic realm where reality and reality coexist. It stitches together the past and the present, ideas and stories.

Secondly, when we deal with "Red Sorghum", we will feel that "Red Sorghum" is soaked in the glorious red color. Red is the color of the sun, blood, and sorghum wine. There, the use of color in "Red Sorghum" is highly stylized. It begins with the young, beautiful and spirited grandma’s rosy face full of life, and then comes the red hijab that fills the screen, the warm and plump red sedan chair, and the sunshine shining on the wildly dancing sorghum stalks during the wild harvest. , red sorghum wine like red rain, bloody human flesh, until the world turns red after the total solar eclipse?, the entire film is shrouded in red. The author's choice of this tone almost completely deprives us of our attention to the plot of "Red Sorghum" and leads us into a purely emotional experience of a specific modeling space. This is a desire and praise for perfect and free natural life. This is not a representation of a completely real time and space, but a spiritual externalization of our inner life force. "Red Sorghum" ends in the mysterious total solar eclipse, and the expanding power of red acquires a solidified, almost eternal silence effect. The stretching and flowing black and red sorghum fills the entire "Red Sorghum" space, which is extremely brilliant, gorgeous and magnificent.

Thirdly, the spatial environment and modeling description of "Red Sorghum" strive to pursue the simplification of color and the mystery and vastness of space. All trivial comparisons, coordination and transitions are thrown away, creating a living space of sublime, sacred and mysterious life. "Red Sorghum" is mainly composed of two spatial environments: the sorghum field and the brewing workshop. The brewing workshop embodies the ancient consciousness of life, such as the circular doorway on the eighteen-mile slope that is eroded by wind and rain and resembles an ancient castle. And the sorghum field that grows and dies on its own reveals the sanctity of life. When the sorghum field is described in "Red Sorghum", it is as a huge group of natural life symbols, stretching, grand, strong, warm and generous. The three renderings of sorghum in "Red Sorghum" all show the integrity of human and natural life. When my grandma, with tears streaming down her face, was lying on her back on the altar that my grandpa had stepped on, there were four superimposed wild dance climaxes in "Red Sorghum". There, the sorghum fields are evidence of the birth of life. And when the Japanese forced the people to trample sorghum, they felt the shock of their lives being destroyed. At the end of "Red Sorghum", my grandfather and my father stand like clay sculptures in the blood-red sunshine. Facing the shot of high-speed flowing sorghum, what evokes in our hearts is a kind of confidence in life and a warm and tragic praise of life.

Of course, there are still some issues worth exploring in terms of ideological connotation and implications of "Red Sorghum".

Reflections on Red Sorghum

"Red Sorghum"? A film depicting the simple and wild life of a group of farmers in China in the 1920s and 1930s and their bloody battle with the invaders. . The plot structure of the film is extremely dramatic, and it praises the freedom of life through character creation. Love is true love, hate is true hate; great love, great hate, great life and great death.

And I think that through the successful portrayal of the heroine Jiu'er (played by Gong Li), a woman who almost became a victim of the feudal forces of old China, we have seen the extraordinary ability of women in old China. Charisma. She has this experience: she once succumbed to the secular family's arranged marriage, and she also despaired of her tragic fate. But in the end, she grabbed the only life-saving straw, the vigorous "my grandfather", thus changing her destiny and creating a story that has been told by the world!

Whether it was when dealing with robbers, Whether it is the calmness or the awe-inspiring righteousness when facing the Japanese invaders; whether it is the passionate and wild love with the lover or the endless memory of the martyrs, they fully reflect the rare charm of women, portraying the image of a woman who is clear about love and hate, and is unambiguous in the face of right and wrong. , we cannot help but admire such a woman! To sum up, Jiuer embodies the following personality charm characteristics:

Self-esteem and self-love? When her father married a leprosy winery at the cost of a mule When boss Li Datou worked for him, this strong girl tried to end her tragic fate by committing suicide in order to preserve her virginity and defend her dignity. Isn't it a kind of courage to dare to commit suicide?

On the feudal system And worldly resistance? When her selfish old father nagged her to go home, she said "rebellious" words to her father? You go with your mule! I will never come back~ When you meet the one you like As a boy, he boldly broke worldly prejudices and showed his determination to pursue happiness;

A strong national spirit? When he was invaded by the Japanese invaders, he resolutely mobilized people to fight fearlessly, thus sacrificing his own life. Almost caught up with her husband and son;

Super factory management potential? Rapidly developed a winery that was on the verge of bankruptcy, and even brewed the famous "Shibalihong", which fully shows that she is a woman. Their "alternative" charm.