"The Lament of the Jade Palace," directed by Xiaoxiao MA, is an excellent version of a Chinese opera, with all its visual and auditory magnificence. It is an explosion of color that transforms the film, in the 40 minutes it lasts, into a luxury show.
The story of the noble consort Wen Yan, describes the oppression suffered by women in the ancient Chinese feudal world, but also allows us to understand how many vestiges of that has come almost up to our days
Xiaoxiao Ma, is a graduate student of the Management Department of the National Academy of Theatrical Arts in China, specializing in the research and practice of Chinese opera films, a unique genre with Chinese characteristics. It reminds us that the first Chinese film, "Dingjun Mountain," was an opera film, and today we continue this century-old dialogue between light and shadow from a contemporary perspective.
He tells us that "in the narrative tradition of classical Chinese opera, female characters are usually confined to two extremes: chaste and unbreakable heroines or venomous figures, femme fatale. This binary approach to characterization not only obscures the complexity of women’s destinies, but also ignores their lived struggles and capacity for action in specific historical contexts."
From a feminist perspective, this film seeks to deconstruct these stereotypes. We go beyond simply asking "what kind of person he is" to explore in depth "why he became such a person". The protagonist Wen Yan is not a simplistic moral symbol or a one-dimensional villain, but a living individual struggling to survive in the cracks of the feudal system. By portraying her trajectory from an impoverished and orphaned young woman to her gradual entanglement in the maelstrom of power, we reveal how women were forced into alienation under the patriarchal system: their ambition is not an innate original sin, but a compelling response to survival; its fall is not inherent in its nature, but an inevitable result of the oppression of power structures.
The film has a natural charm that allows us to enjoy it.
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