Make yourself strong, is the greatest luck

Alexa 2022-04-20 09:01:41

I revisited this "Oscar Best Picture", and my impressions are as follows:
1. Prison
From one place to another, Puyi is just going to a deeper prison. The moment when the poor man was kicked out of the palace was more nervous than frightened, and perhaps a little joyous: a man who had never been free was forced to be free. However, Puyi, who regained his freedom, lost the innocent love that he used to travel across the ocean. Greed eventually makes people lose their principles, disagree with each other, and step into a self-created prison. Puyi of New China eventually became a gardener. Like everyone else, he bought Chinese cabbage on the corner of the street. He rode a bicycle and waited for the traffic lights at the intersection. He also needed to buy tickets to visit the Forbidden City. Without the emperor's dream, he gained true freedom. As the fight club said: It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
2. Reincarnation
Puyi 's look at the photo of Taizu is meaningful. This film can not help but remind people of Hegel's words: China has no history, only reincarnation. Even if the dynasty changes, "people do not change" (Pu Yi said). Look at the tens of millions of Internet mobs, who are raving about Guo Meimei from the Ministry of Railways, and rumors are flying all over the sky.
3. Property The Longdao, which
was originally for Fu Yi to walk alone, and the throne that belonged to him will not be able to walk or sit even if he buys a ticket in the future. In this respect, young Fu Yi was no different from the son of a gardener in the Forbidden City of New China. What one owns is just a temporary gift from others and luck, and maybe one day someone takes it back or loses it. The same is true of human life, which, like real estate, only has the right to use it for decades. One day what should be repaid, what should be given.
4. Everyone is Puyi
Each of us is given an identity from birth: race, gender, appearance, family, etc. Although not everyone is given as much as Puyi, most of the fortunes are not ours to choose. Know yourself and live well. Less is more, more is confused. Contentment leads to happiness. In the face of difficulties, you can't expect someone to save you. Let yourself be strong, is the greatest luck.

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  • Adalberto 2022-03-21 09:01:55

    Puyi, even in modern society, is also an ordinary person who is incompetent and inconsiderate, but was born in the late Qing Dynasty as the last emperor. Presumably he must be an ordinary person in his next life. The 4K restoration is so beautiful, it's hard to believe it's a movie from the 80s!

  • Ludwig 2022-03-24 09:01:53

    The final cut of nearly four hours. I originally thought that I would be filled with emotion, but when the blurred history in my mind turned into clear images, it was like the most familiar stranger, full of alienation. However, it is also due to alienation that this history can be viewed objectively. Puyi opened the door three times and failed, because he was imprisoned in the world. At the end, when the child opened the jar, Puyi disappeared and appeared as a cricket. Puyi's death was also his release.

The Last Emperor quotes

  • Chang: [to Reginald] The Emperor awards you with the order of the Ruby Hat Button, and with the right to be carried in your own chair, with four bearers.

  • Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: It would be conveniently sad if he becomes blind. To the expense, Your Excellency. To the cost of maintaining one thousand two hundred eunuchs, three hundred and fifty ladies-in-waiting and one hundred and eighty-five cooks to buying a hundred and twenty sable furs a month and three thousand chickens a week. To the fact that eight hundred and forty guards and employees of the household department, plus one Lord Chamberlain, care only about one thing! Filling their own rice bowls!