The Sexual Suggestion in "Farewell My Concubine"

The gender transition of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell My Concubine" is a hidden line running through the film, and it is also the baseline to promote the narrative. Cheng Dieyi was born to Yu Ji, so he must be a woman. It is this struggle between personality and gender that ultimately leads to the confrontation between reality and history, and gender dislocation is the fundamental cause of tragedy. There are at least the following symbolic hints in the film to exemplify this process of transformation:
1. Before entering the line, cutting off deformities for the birth mother refers to physical castration. A symbol of the break of the male body, the first and most demonstrative gender transition has been completed;
2. At the age of thirteen, he was tortured by a small stone when he sang an opera wrongly, and stirred his mouth with a pipe to be bloody. The symbolism here is the strongest. The pipe...to the mouth... the mouth is full of blood and the virginity is lost... the first time I see red...
3. In the same year, being insulted by the eunuch Zhang Gonggong was a spiritual castration. The role of the female body to succumb eventually oppressive conception, so far, completed the evolution of sex in multiple torment;
4, and Zhang house strong hint of scarlet red scenery womb, the mother's pregnancy and
5, then, an unexpected pick out Zhang house Abandoning the baby's four sons symbolizes the end of childbirth, the arousal of maternal consciousness, and fixes this humiliating gender rewriting


. The fact that gender dislocations occur repeatedly has blurred the gender gap between Dieyi himself and others, blooming a kind of "stunning" "And "surprise" beauty. The Peking Opera "Si Fan" sings: "I am a girl Jiao'e, and I am not a boy man..." Watching the complete film and listening to this fold, I don't have a taste in my heart. The so-called "good luck" is really expressed by the lyric. Hearty.

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