Stanley Kwan's Film Phenomenon

Stanley KWAN is said to be a feminism director specializing in describing females in the moviedom of Hong Kong. He did it in an extraordinary way to outline the changeable human nature through a reversed sexual role with the space-time idea and female personal mental experience, so as to reveal the complex feelings of the female. Not only have his female films fully embodied the character and the growing course of the director himself, but also echoed the feminism criticism in the film theories at that time.This paper has put its emphasis on discussing two aspects of Stanley KWAN's films by comparing the differences of Guan with other directors in molding male and female roles. Firstly, analysis of Guan has been deepened from text into image, which contains four elements: to dispose the subject with the private point of view, to surmount the traditional movie language, to transform the narrative means and to break through the female space. Secondly, Stanley KWAN worships the Chinese traditional aesthetics. The paper has a brand-new aesthetic study over it form his method, space, time and his oriental thinking in his narration.Because feminism has surprising resemblances in clearing up principle ideology, hegemony words of the feminism criticism and the "homeland consciousness of Hong Kong ", Stanley KWAN shows a homeland consciousness by a non-mainstream method. Stanley KWAN has seen a crisis due to the filtration of" national narration " to native culture.But we have to accept the fact that Stanley K WAN's image style is varying gradually, from worry to gentle, accompanying with the change of Hong Kong's political feeling. Now he can treat the differences existed as a normal phenomenon with a tolerant mood.