The representation of gender and sexuality in Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou and Red Sorghum
Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou and Red Sorghum have always been used for comparison in cinematic studies. The style of presentation, sexuality projection and other psychoanalysis of the oedipal complex were the key comparison points for the two films. Zhang Yimou had also commented the two films are actually the two sides of a coin. Base on his commentary on the films, in the later analysis, the focusing point will put on the two films confronting representations of masculinity and sexuality and the different ways of representations.
