Fable About Children

As a " Son of Cultural Revolution" with rich cultural background and a director growing in modern aesthetic appreciation environment,Chen Kaige has always been using his own unique camera language to express his consideration and pursuit towards national culture .Chen Kaige,different from other directors of the fifth generation,doesn't try to rise "father "again to realize their own culture strategies but adopts different attitudes towards the cultural reality without "father" .In his ten movies directed up to the present time,Chen Kaige takes the children as the symbol of the meaning ,and "father-son order "as the deep structure to express his deep reflection to historical order of "father-son circle "as well as show the growth process of children from waiting for being saved,then self-saving to grow up by using the fable.These movies show the children outdoing their own life situation gradually ,and finally to build their own symbol order and life process of inhabitation by the means of inter-texts and connectin of cracked characters.Because of the fabulosity of the texts in the third world,this growth process shows us "son of Cultural Revolution"-Chen Kaige's unique thought to strictly politicized "father-son order" ,and it also tells Chen Kaige's aesthetic pursuit of national culture under the condition of globalization and post-colonism.Accordingly,it is a wandering journey of Chen Kaige in spirit and splendid metaphor in the development of Chinese movie culture.