Although there is not much violence is shown in the movie, Zhang successfully uses red to represent the merciless of Japanese War. Chinese people are torturous in the Japanese War. As shown in figure 5, after slaughtering the cattle, the two Chinese butchers slice off the cattle’s skin, put the bloody cattle’s skin on Japanese’s car, and Japanese army wants the two butchers to slice off a Chinese people’s skin, but they refused, the consequence of their rejection is dead. The color of the bloody cattle’s skin matches with the Japanese flag, this red cattle skin is the symbol of Chinese people, who is tortured atrociously by the Japanese army. Thus, the red at this moment represents bloodiness, suffering, and sadness. Furthermore, in figure 6, the whole space is full of blood red, yellow tone, has stimulated the audience 's vision and emotion. When Jiuer devotes her life to against Japanese war, Zhang uses the red sunlight to present this glory moment of Jiuer who sacrifices herself for her family and country. Jiuer’s husband and son stand by her dead body, they do not ululate for their sadness, but the red sunlight expresses their
Although there is not much violence is shown in the movie, Zhang successfully uses red to represent the merciless of Japanese War. Chinese people are torturous in the Japanese War. As shown in figure 5, after slaughtering the cattle, the two Chinese butchers slice off the cattle’s skin, put the bloody cattle’s skin on Japanese’s car, and Japanese army wants the two butchers to slice off a Chinese people’s skin, but they refused, the consequence of their rejection is dead. The color of the bloody cattle’s skin matches with the Japanese flag, this red cattle skin is the symbol of Chinese people, who is tortured atrociously by the Japanese army. Thus, the red at this moment represents bloodiness, suffering, and sadness. Furthermore, in figure 6, the whole space is full of blood red, yellow tone, has stimulated the audience 's vision and emotion. When Jiuer devotes her life to against Japanese war, Zhang uses the red sunlight to present this glory moment of Jiuer who sacrifices herself for her family and country. Jiuer’s husband and son stand by her dead body, they do not ululate for their sadness, but the red sunlight expresses their