Abstract: Cultural Revolution has provided many topics for film creation after that period.In the various discourses about Cultural Revolution,the film creators have encoded their understanding to Cultural Revolution and their historical objectivity in film creation,leading to different expressions of image of Cultural Revolution.The study on the image of Cultural Revolution should start from historical narration,mainly including how history appeared in films and what functions they served;then it is to study coding and encoding.Since the fault agreement on situational film watching has been reached between the film and the audience,the true history is nothing but an illusion in the image of Cultural Revolution.The image has found its balance between true and fault history,and found the proper way of encoding and decoding in the myth of ideology and humanity excavation.

Key words: Cultural Revolution, image, encoding, decoding