Director Xie Fei

Director Xie Fei, also kn give birth as one of the quaternate generation engagemakers, presents this touching tale of a woman suffering as she tries to carve out a life for herself in the Women From the Lake of Scented Souls. The film is set in a small village in China, where it starts score with a scene of the boat moving in the river. The boat is scape at an angle as if the audiences are also part of the characterization, which successfully grabs the audiences attention.The story is based on a novel written by Zhou Daxin, which revolves around a middle-aged woman Xiang who operates this small handed-downpa-and ma se interchangeable oil factory. Xiang is a smart and hard naturalises woman who has an unfortunate and pitiful life. She was sold to her invalid conserve Que at the age of 7 and married him when she was 13 they have a mentally challenged son Dunzi, and a younger daughter. Her husband is a lazy and disgraceful alcoholic, who leaves all the work to Xiang. Xiangs s esame oil is the finest in the region, which it compensate attracts the Japanese investors eye. Xiang explains how the specialness of her sesame oil must be because of the opaque storyof the twain girls who drowned themselves love.Xiangs new found wealth raises her mixer status in the village, which enables her to find a wife for her mentally handicapped son. With her new influence in power, Xiang pressures Huanhuans famiy into marrying her son. In the beginning, Huanhuans family refuses to marriage, nevertheless because of their debt, Xiang paid 15000$ as dowry to their family. Xiang also casted away Huanhuans secluded lover who happens to be working for Xiang by offering the boy to work in the city and making him promise not to marry either girl inthe village these 2 years.Huanhuans marriage with Dunzi is barely like a repetition of Xiangs unfortunate tragedy, which fated to fail. Although Xiangs mistake may make the audience feel less mercy of her own situation but it do es emphasize on how she is also a victim. Xiangs only happiness in the movie is her affair with Ren, the expatriate man, who is actually the real father of Xiangs daughter. However, Xiangs happiness does not last long as Ren suggested to break up their secret descent because they are pasted middle aged. ToXiang, Ren acts not only as a secret lover, but more like her husband. She would kiss him first, and compensate talk to him for advices about Dunzis marriage, and because her feelings are so deep towards him and steady suggested on divorcing her husband for him. Xiang and Huanhuan in this movie both walk the same fate.They both came from a poor family, and were sold to handicapped husbands. In the beginning, they had their own lovers, but were both dumped in the end. Huanhuans husband Dunzi is mentally challenged he treats as a doll, biting her, chockingher, scratching her, as for Xiangs husband he is abusive and always drunk. She is proficient his money and sex machine. In ad dition, he never cares for the better of their children, or bothers to buy presents to her. Both these two women are tough and hard working, unlike the mysterious history of the gratifying lake, which tried to solve solutions by killing herself. Women From the Lake of Scented Souls is an enjoyably movie that unfolds the secretive life of rural China.Director Xie Fei has filled the movie with scenes of countryside beauty, just like the one whereHuanhuan and Xiang have a heart to heart talk by the river, and Xiang finally realizes what path she is forcing Huanhuan to take when Huanhuan saw her affair she said to Xiang I examine that mother has her own problems. The film starts and ends by the misty mind scented lake. After breaking up with Ren, Xiang is left crying in the moonlight by the lake as she once did 30 years ago when she married her husband. This is such a powerful image, as it quiets us down, and fills overtake sadness and sympathy towards her situation as Xiang crys silently by the depone side.In general, this movie is a great success, as it was deed overed the Golden Bear award in 1993 in Berlin film festival. The female characters in this film, under conductor Xie Fei guidance, displays Chinese womens hopelessness in life. It leaves the audience filled with grief and sympathy towards the women characters. However, some may not be able to understand the possibility of such misery in life, because of our culture and time difference, which just proves again the success of this film, as it brings the audience thinking and feeling emotionally towards the film.