A Comparative Analysis of “Sense of Music” and “Sense of Guilt” in Chinese and Western Films

Abstract

The differences between Chinese and Western cultures result in systematic differences in the forms and styles of film art, the deep psychological patterns of a culture are more or less influenced by the society and ideology that gave birth to them. However, due to the natural environment, living conditions, especially the different forms of economic production and activities, people from different religious beliefs, different spiritual cores, different cultural development models. As a form of cultural presentation, Chinese and Western films show different ways of dealing with the same type of events, as well as different narrative philosophies. This paper analyzes the “Music culture” and “Guilt culture” in the image narrative strategy of Chinese and foreign films on this subject, to explain the source of the cultural differences.