One of the significances that I see would be to highlight that there is a cycle to abuse. While the uncle is originally the bad guy, once there is a power shift Ju Dou and Tianging seem unable to rise above the torture that the uncle inflicted on them. As a result, they receive a similar fate of torture from their own son as he is sucked in to the…[Read more]
In reply to - jengland17 wrote a new post, Ju Dou, on the site Chinese Cinema – Authenticity, Identity, and the Nation What I found most interesting in Ju Dou was the repetition of different elements that linked so many events […]↧