it is , a victimized female is more easy to grip audiences sympathy. And this also suggested the position of women as women itself is not important during that period. But obviously, this film is just purely a popanganda from the Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution - a model performance (geming yangbanxi)Comparing the narrative of The White Hair Girl and the other two film after Cultural Revolution - The Yellow Earth (Huangtodi) (1984) directed by Chen Kaige and The Red Sorghum (Honggaoliang) (1987) directed by Zhang Yimou, the image of women is very different.In The Yellow Earth and The Red Sorghum, both of the female character are being suffered under the convention feudalism and the politics. But their attitude towards those great forces are different from the White Hair Girl. And more description of the female features in these two films.In The Yellow Earth, the female character Cuiqiao only wants to escape from the arranged marriage, escape from her father and escape from the rule of convention feudalism. She begged Brother Gu from the 8th Army in the Communist Party to take her with him, but Brother Gu just refused, he said There are also rules for officers. Therefore Cuiqiao just realized there are rules everywhere in her world. After marriage, Cuiqiao was suffered much, she decided to go across the river to Yann to look for the 8th Army, but eventually disappear in the Yellow River. The attitude towards the women whom willing to free from the traditional lock of feudalism is different between The Yellow Earth and the White Hair Girl. The White Hair Girl is a passive attitude, she rather hide inside the cave to avoid being suffer again from the landlord, her saviour is Communist Party. But in The Yellow Earth, the represent of Communist Party - Brother Gu havent saved Cuiqiao (although he willing to) He only gave her the dream of the equality of gender is existed in China. And the one who actually taking the action to ...
