Problems about Red Sorghum Field

[sven koerber]

Hello everybody.

I have some problems about a Chinese movie which has much Japan-relation: 
"Red Sorghum Field" directed by Zhang Yimou ( China 89 ).

I have once written a work for my university about this film, and the main 
point of it was that this film originally was not a "Anti-Japanese-Movie", 
but more sort of a critical movie against the
system of society, here the suppressor personated by the Japanese army
( as this critical theme can often be seen in Zhang Yimou's movies ).

While rewriting it, the last scene causes some headache to me:
the eclipse of the sun.

Zhang Yimou could have made it just for optical ( dramatical ) reasons,
but here the voice of the storyteller says: "... as I looked into the sun 
this day, I became blind..." ( in the German version ).
I do not want to over-interpret this scene, but I think there could be a 
chance to see the sun as a symbol for Japan ( and therefor the suppressor in 
society ).
Does anybody know what Zhang Yimou´himself said about it, or where I can 
find something written about it in English or German language ( or
just what you think about my idea ?)

Thanks for reading in spite of my bad English !

Sven Koerber
University of Munich, Japanese Studies
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