Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

The film Balzac and the little chinese seamstress is produced in 2002, based on the historical background of cultural revolution of China. During the cultural revolution period, The producer Dai SiJie was sent to re-educated in the mountains of Sichuan province, and spent the yeas between 1971 and 1975. His own experience in this time period helped to make this movie vivid. The movie is about two city teenage boys named Luo and Ma, sent to a remote mountain known as the Phoenix of Sky to be re-educated. They are asked to working in the coal mines and farms. During this time, they fall in love with a mountain girl named little seamstress. She is the daughter of the local tailor. Ma and Luo also meet a fellow city kid, nicknamed Four-eyes, he is also being re-educated in a nearby town.

First irony started in the very beginning of the film when Luo played a Mozart's music in front of the village leader. During culture revolution, western culture including music was banned by Chairman Mao ZeDong in China, no one allowed to play western music, and things associated with Chairman Mao were held in esteem. When the village leader asked what was the name of the song, Ma responded with wisdom "Mozart is thinking of Mao". In this way, Ma and Luo successfully avoided serious political punishment. However, the fact is that Mozart had been dead even before the birth of Mao. By saying "Mozart is thinking of Mao" indicated that people were blind-sighted to follow Chairman Mao during cultural