Raise the red lantern
Once again watching a movie from Youtube after long time This review is witrh pont of view of a rather illiterate person ith the Chinese traditions
Fist let me copy the plot of the story as notice in the imdb
A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.
China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand..
This is the 7th movie of Gong Li under the auspices of the well known director Zhang Yi Mou and well before she was internationally known[?] from ‘Memoirs of a geisha’ . The movie has quite good filming and pictures nice landscapes etc. The story in my personal opinion is just interesting and a bit awkward due to the first time customs seen. Red Lanterns are as like a symbol in this story (is it also real?) and and show which of these concubines are happy that night
Its all clear that all these sisters are always jealous each other on how to allure the master with .
It also quite weird to me that Songlian after understanding her fault became mad for very long. The time She was quite arrogant before even reaching the house , on how she behaved with Yan Er as mistress …
Rating 6/10
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