Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)

"Isn't that a woman's fate?" "Our fate is the same" Misogyny, a custom so old and culturally ingrained it's in the damn architecture.

Josh Lewis

Somber, tantalizing, and contemplative, Raise the Red Lantern is a thought-provoking and powerful portrait of a young woman who, after marrying a significantly older and wealthier man, finds herself confronted with the surreptitious conspiracies pervading the relationships…

jing

Raise the Red Lantern is a mournful tribute to Chinese women of past generations, whose existence merely served in accordance to men's needs, or as the movie itself puts it, was "like dogs, cats, rats, but not people." In this daunting tale of jealousy, murders and…

nick

"Please, I don't want to live that long" - Song Lian, This sexism is killing her inside. When young Song Lian becomes the fourth wife to a super old dude she learns all about the oppressive power of money and experiences the isolated position of women in a…

{Todd}

How difficult it is to talk about Raise the Red Lantern because it is at once a film that's so clearly about the patriarchal oppression of women in many modes of living, a stark yet honest demonstration of how systems that pit women against women serve to both profit off of…

reibureibu

Bewilderment. A word that I think comes close to the sensation I felt after watching a film so breathtakingly gorgeous, but also incredibly intricate at the same time. The usage of the color red has never been this powerful, both in a literal and a metaphorical sense. It…

🎃spooky allain♡🎃

Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss.

Lee Does Not Exist सब्बे सत्ता सुखी होन्तु

This film as a craft is so masterfully made. Everything about it technically is stellar: the cinematography, costumes, sets, score. All impeccable. At times it felt like I was looking at paintings; this film is so beautiful.  The story is also extremely powerful and one of…

🌻 lindsay 🌻

romance? hahahhaha what

meyi