Ethical Domain Of Conflict And Beyond

Ang Lee's films are meaningful materials for studying in terms of both market value in film industrialization and cultural value in film socialization, research on those materials having made great breakthrough. Unlike the previous study passages, this paper arranges Ang Lee's film works with the reflected ethics, combined with his growing experiences and artistic appetite, and makes ethics the breakthrough point in studying the films, finding a brand new landscape.The systematic content of Ang Lee's films reflect family ethics, emprise ethics as well as science and technology ethics greatly. Through various ethical facets, Ang Lee shows his artistic ideal and life speculation as well as his ultimate loving care for humans in the process of concerning and continual asking.In the system of comparing Chinese and western culture, family is the most obvious section. Family and nation affection is the core of Chinese culture and of sense of worth, and the derivation of father-and-son ethics to liege ethics put the former on the fundamental position of family ethics. Family ethics is the front platform on which Chinese and western culture communicate and contradict with each other, and Ang Lee's special growing experience, especially the subtle relationship between his father and him, provides material and inspiration for his early creation. Based on such perceptual experience and rational thinking, Ang Lee starts his film creating process of family trilogy-Tui shou, Hsi yen and Yin shi nan nv. Actually, his depiction of the image of father can also be tasted I his later film works.When it comes to fixing and coping with personal relations, films of real-life subject matter are constricted a lot. However, traditional emprise films offer Ang Lee vast space to imagine. Therefore, in Wo hu cang long, into which Ang Lee pours his artistic pursuit and humanistic freedom, not only does he syncretizes emprise films, but impresses western audience with the deeply moving rises and falls of social ethics, opening a window for the new-century Chinese films combined with grand scenes and national emprise to advance to the whole world. Then such films as Heroes, Shi mian mai fu, Ye yan and Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia make continual sensation in the international market.With its development, high science and technology has penetrated into films, playing a dual part. That is, it established grand view and sound effects and at the same time expresses different opinion for science and technology in films. Ang Lee also voice his opinion in the film Green Giant, in which he has horrible imagination about the influence science and technology have exerted on human beings. In his films, science and technology destroy father-and-son relationships but are regained by love. In the rational perspective of attaching importance to science and technology, and in the depth of probing science-and-technology ethics, Ang Lee penetrates deeply into human nature as well as its complicated and subtle area of subconsciousness, and points that science and technology goes to the opposite side of human nature when used unproperly. In other words, it doesn't transcend itself as has been expected. Instead, it puts humans back to the self-centered world, making humans lost.It should be pointed out that different ethical relationships are multiple and intersectional. When they intersect with each other, a tensile force is formed. In a word, Ang Lee's films, trans-cultural or inner-cultural, are focused on ethics, a field full of contradictories, realizing surpass at the same time of expressing in film field.When Ang Lee's films are studied in the ethical perspective, the superficial talk about culture comparison and culture study before can be avoided and the cultural background of Ang Lee's films becomes clearer and more detailed. Ang Lee makes his films advance to the world by means of this very subtle and refined express. In the meantime, this perspective is also a more systematic clue to generalize his road of creation, for Ang Lee plays down the expression of differences and contradictories between Chinese and western culture in his recent works without giving up pondering and reflecting ethics.