Qui Ju: Character Interaction

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But in this story, a peasant woman, who is pregnant as well, is virtually rowing upstream to get an apology from a local chief who had hit her husband in groin (Ebert). Set in a rural environment, the movie takes its viewers to a journey along with Qui Ju, which at times seems like a travelogue through the social and justice quarters of China. Qui Ju (the movie) at first might seem like a typical feminist story but it is not. Although, the actress Gong Li (Qui Ju) is in the center-stage of the movie - she is not an archetypal woman who would argue against male chauvinism and give speeches to ignite freedom movement in rural china. On the other hand, she remains sober, never shows temper, but at the same time, there's no denying to the fact that she never gets budged by legal setbacks and seeks higher courts of appeal to take her case to.

Viewers come to know since the beginning, that this movie is about some sort of 'women-power' - first the mnemonic name and secondly, the opening ...

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an object of ridicule by locals who consider this fact as related to his manhood - fathering a boy was thought to be more 'masculine' act than fathering a girl.

In the movie, Gong Li has been directed to give her expressions with a little deliberation and delay (Stone). She is shown to be slow to think and react - her feelings are shaped first in mind and slowly, through her face, that mind-set comes out. Viewers can fully appreciate the way Li reveals what is going on in her heart and mind by observing her face. One instance where one observers the characteristic female expression of being lost comes when Ju's sister-in-law goes missing somewhere during the travel. Yimou has not ...

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