Red sorghum 红高粱 with Gong LI 巩俐

 

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Red sorghum 红高粱

Another  intesting movie from Zhng YImou and possibly his first  movie with his muse Gong LI in her starting movie when she was still studying acting

The movie has a very y low pacing in most of the part with very good scenery and photo n the grounds somewhere in China  of the 20s when humans were using very traditional ways to cut the sorghum. Trying to get rid of showing the story understood that this place was one of the poorest of the country her getting married with a relatively rich person who has a mill  to extract wine  from sorghum. That wine is supposed to be  of high alcohol level that acan also disinfect. As with  red lantern movie the young woman is a bit arrogant and  quite hard to manage a group of men under her orders

There are a few scenes around 15 minutes  in the end hat who the atrocities  of Japanese agisnt the less hard Chinese (both folks seem quite violent but Japies are shown even more ). Even if description refers  to anti wart movie I still cant rate it  this waay .

My rating: 6/10 doe to the” lost in civilization translation”