| As a very special Contemporary Chinese History, Cultural Revolution makes the memorable and harrowing impression on people. Movies expressing history with specific transmitting vector, comply with the development need of the times. Cultural Revolution images of diversity since the new period that have formed a special movie phenomenon, and are worth to study importantly.With exquisite film skills and unique aesthetic views, several generations of Chinese directors differently focus on the Cultural Revolution, and respectively create personalized images. Some of the films visually expose the disaster, and some offer the history meditation with the evasion of image, and others subversively beautify the history. Besides, by use of diversified narrative strategies, directors focus on the encounter of all orders of society, and think about the family circumstances in special times. Then, films review and retrospect the history with multiple angles and sides.The images not only enrich the historical information to study, but also try to research into history causes. So the significance and influence is profound. However, in the post-modern context, histories are faced with dangerous of deconstruction and reconstruction. Therefore, when the important values·of Cultural Revolution images are acknowledged, possibilities that hide in the images to misread Cultural Revolution history also should be taken notice, and the authenticity of Cultural Revolution history is gradually deconstructed. The dual characters of Cultural Revolution image give some enlightenment that filmmakers should hold the yardstick between history and artistic as much as possible. |
