电影《大红灯笼高高挂》英文影评

Movie Review of Raise the Red Lantern Raise the red lantern is a metaphor in this movie. It means the sexual life between husband and wife as well as the power for the wife in the family. The film leaves us a direct feeling is depressive, the human nature of repression. This story begins from summer, and ends by the other summer. This is a story without spring, without any hope.

Songlian used to be a college student, but her beautiful young life is ended by her step-mother and her husband. In this movie, we never see the front face of Songlian’s step-mother and husband. That is a clever arrangement from the director to show us two unkind persons. When Songlian come to the Chen’s Courtyard, her dress-up is incompatible with the old courtyard. This is the beginning of her sad life.

In the movie, the roles in this family are mentioned time and time. Their roles are the symbol of old tradition. The people in this family are all tied up by the old ideas, old roles, old traditions. And their life are fated to be sorrow, and died one by one in the end, such as the three beautiful women.

The red lantern plays a very important role. The symbol of happiness is also means a kind of desire. In order to satisfy their own desire, their human nature turn to be ugly.