Cheng Dieyi - If you are not crazy, you can't survive. He plays crazy and survives for the show.
For ordinary people, singing opera is a livelihood, but he just wants to sing opera for a lifetime: if you say it is a lifetime, it means a year, a month, a day, an hour, not a lifetime.
In fact, he is a very simple person, he just wants to sing opera all his life, and sing with his senior brother all his life. The constant bond between the two has become the catastrophe of his life. He despaired again and again, because he knew that in his entire life, he would never meet someone like him who was willing to sing this "Farewell My Concubine" for the rest of his life. Even if he did, it would not be what he wanted to wait for. people.
Just as Concubine Yu determined that one is the other to the overlord, no matter how good others are, it is useless.
Many people have done a lot of research on the role of Cheng Dieyi, and there are various metaphors with a very "sex" meaning, such as "I am a man, but not a female Jiao'e" This line has been used many times in the movie " It appears in Farewell My Concubine, and is an important clue to understanding Cheng Dieyi's gender conflict. As well as the severed finger when he was a child, this behavior with a very "castration" connotation makes people deeply feel the gender conflict in this character.
Woolf said that the best sex in the world is hermaphroditism.
Indeed, why think so much? No matter a man or a woman, they can be known as "Peerless elegance". This adjective does not depend on gender, it only depends on what kind of temperament a person has.
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