When was the red sorghum taken?

Red Sorghum is a war literary film produced by Xi 'an Film Studio, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Jiang Wen, Gong Li and Teng Rujun. It was released in China on 1987. 1988, the film won the Golden Bear Award at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival, becoming the first Asian film to win this honor.

The film portrays a group of ordinary people in China, such as "my grandmother", "my grandfather" and "uncle Lohan", praising their national spirit of daring to live and die, loving and hating, and also thinking about the history, personality, psychology, culture and lifestyle of the Chinese nation.

The biggest feature of this film is that it shows the heroic and frank side of China people, which is quite different from the traditional sad and heavy style of Chinese mainland films. Photographer Gu Changwei has excellent performance in framing and color application. The scene where the hero and heroine meet in the sorghum field has a rare beauty of "the combination of scenery and people" in China's films, which makes people relaxed and detached.

Collection Evaluation of Red Sorghum

"Red Sorghum" is not a realistic work, nor is it the root of national culture. On the contrary, in this story that connects three generations with the past tense, a personality with future significance is created, which transcends the specific social surface and has the depth of humanity and essence. The theme that the film calls for from beginning to end is vigorous vitality, that is, to promote an undistorted, unrestrained and frank outlook on life.

Therefore, the work in front of the audience is not an understood world, but a life ideal of the world. "Red Sorghum" is different from any previous film reflecting farmers, and its perspective has changed from a traditional praise of the land to a praise of life.

The extraordinary characteristics of the story determine the unreality of the narrative, and the location of the story has also been diluted. In the film, the village, the most basic structure of society, was even diluted. All narrative elements and audio-visual elements in the film serve the warm, free and stirring style of this natural life.