Keep the Gong Li /Zhang Yimou collabs coming!
"Generational silent rage and shame. Beholden to old ways of thinking and doing that restrict empathy, kindness and desire. Home as a hell. The tyranny of filial piety and cruelty passed down by what the blood knows and the walled-in environment compounds. A woman as an enslaved reproductive tool for an infertile man, beaten for not producing a child, but later, in a cruel twist of fate, her ability to give life is a further form of entrapment. Lives of toil drained of colour, save for the resplendent towers of fabric which are their labour, and serve as the striking symbol of sex and death. A fiery, inescapable fate. Fully restrained, youthful Gong Li on full power. Raise the Red Lantern next please, Film Movement!"