Many perhaps would like to limit Qiu Ju to a quiet disquisition on the inefficacy and passionless drive of Chinese bureaucracy. The only matter that is truly ineffectual is making such a rash and shallow statement about a film that actually bears more emotion for bureaucracy than against it.
Each instance of appeal to the officers of the government raises the level of kindness and mercy shown to little country Qiu Ju venturing so far into a civilized wilderness packed with wolves. Whenever she is addressed by those in the government, they offer every motion of help that they can. The only thing they're unable to demand of the offending chief is an apology. It would seem that the only kind of justice that any government may demand of a human being has been supplied. The undercurrent of The Story of Qiu Ju is its distinct relation to aspects of August Strindberg's sexist realism. Qiu Ju is portrayed as stubborn and unreasonable, insisting that an apology be made when so much monetary compensation has been offered. It is a solemn portrait of a woman in a male-dominated universe.
Each instance of appeal to the officers of the government raises the level of kindness and mercy shown to little country Qiu Ju venturing so far into a civilized wilderness packed with wolves. Whenever she is addressed by those in the government, they offer every motion of help that they can. The only thing they're unable to demand of the offending chief is an apology. It would seem that the only kind of justice that any government may demand of a human being has been supplied. The undercurrent of The Story of Qiu Ju is its distinct relation to aspects of August Strindberg's sexist realism. Qiu Ju is portrayed as stubborn and unreasonable, insisting that an apology be made when so much monetary compensation has been offered. It is a solemn portrait of a woman in a male-dominated universe.