Raise the Red Lantern Question: What ideas are conveyed in the film Raise the Red Lantern? Raise the Red Lantern is a movie directed by Zhang Yimou. The plot of this movie is that an educated young woman named Songlian marries a wealthy man as a concubine and the experiences she is having in this household. This movie provides a valuable insight into China’s culture and history. It shows the lives of the rich noble class in the 1920s and portrays the lives of the concubines in a Chinese household
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Raise the Red Lantern is a movie that kidnaps you to a foreign place and immerses you completely with new traditions. The story follows young Songhian whom is forced by her mother to get married to a rich man. In his household‚ she becomes the Forth Mistress‚ and the youngest among her husband’s wives. Songhian and the audience quickly learn the rules of the Master’s beautifully designed compound‚ whichever wife the Master currently favors is graced by his attention‚ lavish foot massages‚ and many
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In ¡§Raise the Red Lantern¡¨‚ the symbolic implications of the ancestral altar in the central reception hall go beyond the family walls‚ because it displays the portraits of all the powerful officals in the Chen family‚ thus suggesting the entire patriarchal tradition and its political power. In ¡§Raise the Red Lantern¡¨‚ the red lantern‚ an invented icon here (and one accused of being a fake cultural signifier used merely for sensational purposes)‚ is the film¡¦s central symbol and most important
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Raise the Red Lantern offers a view of life within a closed‚ dictatorial social community. Much of the film deals with the ever-shifting balance of power between the various concubines. Beauty and sexual appeal are secondary attributes in a battle of wits that demands guile and duplicity. Bearing a male child is more critical to each woman’s standing than possessing a pleasing countenance. While the master’s favor determines which of his wives commands the most power‚ Zhang illustrates how easily
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master/husband says‚ dialogue/words used and how they reflect his power. Is there justice/responsibility that comes along with his power? In what ways is power abused? He does things simply because he can. Sex traded for power desire for the red lanterns to be lit. Red lanterns are a symbol of the master’s favor role of women in modern Chinese society where education for women is still a luxury that many families cannot afford and marriage is consequently their only career option. Patriarchy triumphs because
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Yi-Mou Zhang ’s Raise the Red Lantern‚ is a beautiful and brilliantly made film in its own right. If‚ however‚ the team of Orson Welles and Greg Toland had produced the same film it would take on an entirely different look and feel. The film would reflect Wells love for creating physical representations of thematic metaphors and the long take and Toland ’s brilliant use of deep space photography and mobile framing. Under the direction of the Wells-Toland team‚ the film would take on subtle‚ yet
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Noted as one of the most beautiful Chinese films created‚ Raise the Red Lantern (1991)‚ directed by Zhang Yimou‚ presents a clear parable in which women are dominated by both men and traditions in a hierarchical society. Set in China in the 1920s‚ the film depicts the struggle and competitiveness between the mistresses to receive attention from the Master. Zhang uses Songlian’s story as a veiled allegory against Chinese traditions and to deeply criticize Confucian teachings. As such‚ the narrative
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In the film Raise the Red Lantern‚ by Chinese director Zhang Yimou (1991‚ Zhang Yimou)‚ we are shown the story of Songlian and her experiences as the new fourth wife of her master. The struggle between tradition and modernity as well as femininity versus masculinity is prominent in the film as Songlian is thrown into the Chen family compound‚ fully governed in Confucian tradition‚ and the capitalist democratic competition between the wives and Songlian’s rebellion to tradition causes many problems
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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
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Raise Raise the Red Lantern "All the world’s a stage; all of us are taking the elements of plot‚ character‚ and costume and turning into performances of possibilities"(Ward1999: 5) Raise the Red Lantern tells a compelling and sorrowful story of a young women whose life is destined to be ruined in a male-dominated society. This can be an awakening of some sort to any woman. As Ward states in her text‚ women learn the rules of our half of the world as well as those of the other half‚ since
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