Going off what you said about the vastness of the landscape being related to the powerlessness of the characters, I think that this idea is highlighted with the final prayer scene. However, an interesting contrast is that the final shots are cluttered with people. Throughout the entire film you see these expansive landscapes that should be able to…[Read more]
In reply to - Emily Glickman wrote a new post, Yellow the Earth, Red my Heart, on the site Chinese Cinema – Authenticity, Identity, and the Nation I interpreted the use of wide shots in Yellow Earth as having a couple of […]↧