Women In The Film Raise The Red Lantern

The film of Raise the Red Lantern has women who are untrustworthy because in the film, there are four women who are the sisters who married the same man who is a rich and wealthy man. The reasons why women do not trust toward to the fourth sister, who is the main character of the film, Songlian. Three sisters like to tease her many times. The first mistress is an older woman who lives there a long time with a child. The second mistress is more friendly to Songlian, but she cannot trust to be because Songlian’s Maid Yo’na told her with a doll which has her name on that she wanted her killed. Lastly, the third mistress is spoiled that she wants her husband who is every sister husband, every night by lying him when he is with Songlian that
She saw her and the first thing she asked her to wash her hair since she does not want any lice in her home. However, one morning during the film, she heard third mistress singing outside, and she walked outside to find her. During that scene, the camera was on the long shot to look over the entire place where she was singing with dialectic sound which she can hear her singing, and she just follow her sound. After she found her and walked back to her home, she found her maid laying in her bed with her husband like cheating on her. Now, she does not trust her maid after she had seen her maid making love. She was angry at both of them that she wants them out of her
He thought he was having a baby boy. After he was mad, she showed her sisters about a maid was hiding from everyone, which was red lanterns. Of course, they were not mad except the aunt. So, Yaner stayed outside in the cold, unfortunately, she died in the hospital on Songlian’s birthday. In the reading of Raise the Red Lantern by Zhang Yimou explains about the film review. She said, “Raise the Red Lantern, based on the short story ‘Wives and Concubines’ by Su Tong, a ‘new wave’ Chinese mainland writer, starts out as an ordinary tale of an impoverished family with means of survival: to allow its female to become a rich man’s concubine” iii. Yimou said that Songlian to survive herself with her fresh life without trusting anyone since other sisters wanted to have the same thing which is having same rich man rest of their