Chinese 5th and 6th Generation

Over the past few years, Chinese films are continually improve. Because I am a Chinese, so I watched many Chinese movies. 

Yellow Earth is a Chinese film that Chen Kaige directed. I think he is very good at put Chinese traditional culture into his films. This film tells the story of Shanxi rural girl Cui Qiao was be arranged marriage with others by her father when she was very young. She could not get rid of misfortune, she just could express her pain inside with a kind of Shanxi local melody. The main tone of the film are yellow, gray and black. It shaped the massy and barren external appearance of yellow earth. The caliginous light and the Cui Qiao's heart that yearning light produced a strong contrast in the movie. Cui qiao was eager to break the bondage of the closed villages has brought her. She wanted to be free, had perfect love, came true dreams, and grasped the fate. She was different with most of the rural women that hastily married a people who didn't love. When she finally have the courage decide to go with Gu Qing, she still missed her own happiness. The film starts with singing, ends with singing. It gave viewers a kind of feelings of a new life break the constraint from the dark. 

The scene that Cui Qiao was angry driving the boat to the yellow river is still one of my most memorable movie scene.