Women are the second sex in this society. No matter the women in the old society or the women in the new era, they cannot escape the status of an accessory. The republic of China era they suffered humiliation, or sold into slavery, or married to do concubines, or stand on a fraction of the husband, is a miserable life, director with a large number of bends down, back the lens to show the differences in status, women are always under the camera in a be overlooking the point of view, that is their fragile and helpless and crazy; Under the upturned lens, there are men, those who represent the orthodox family elders, those who symbolize the authority of the ancestor spirit. To the modern time and space, women emancipate themselves, the society still adhere to the traditional law, the income gap between women and men is too big, it seems too far-fetched and difficult to go Dutch, there are women lucky to marry into the rich and powerful, waiting for her is still abandoned fate.
The camera pushes these troubled women to the front of the stage, while the men quietly hide behind them. Behind the four mothers and four daughters, there is a collective absence of the father. The mother here symbolizes the mother culture, she gestates the offspring, and yearns for a look; Mothers are also the most representative of cultural heritage. They experienced rebellion in their youth and returned to the tradition after having children. They longed for their daughters to no longer bear the misfortune they had gone through, placed their infinite hopes in them, and began to chart their course according to their own ideas; Daughters are born in a free country, they pursue freedom without being controlled, and they often think their mother's idea is ridiculous and ridiculous. Therefore, this bigotry of different opinions forms an invisible generation gap, which is a cultural gap and an emotional gap. What the mother forces her daughter to do, whether playing the piano, playing chess or being financially independent of a man, is already a westernized thing and way of behaving, a huge contrast between eastern and western cultures, and a deviation caused by an emotion that urgently needs to be changed.