I salute you, the last emperor!

Talon 2021-12-08 08:01:48

Puyi's destiny was destined by nature. For him, life is too unfair and there is no choice. Even if he grows old, he must become an example of the People's Republic of China. I think of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, although Li Yu's empire is not the same as Puyi. The king of the subjugated country, the country shed tears. Look at Puyi and think about how a person's life is peaceful and insignificant. The fate of the emperor is nothing more than a night boat in the torrent of history. Think about how people often talk about how to do great things, but people who really experience great things in history are often just puppets in the sea of ​​history. In the play, Puyi calls to open the door several times. When the door of life is closed again and again, the beloved are sent away one by one by some unknown people, the nurses, wives, teachers, including their own souls. Helplessly set it up for him from the beginning. History is not true, although he has cut his own braids, although he loves Western culture and reads many books, although he is positive. But he came too late, he was just a joke made by history. As he himself said, the play is over, why doesn't it come to an end? The Qing dynasty, with internal and external troubles, was exhausted from the time he was still learning words. Impossible task. The dust that had seen Alai settled down like the son of the toast, they stood at the dividing line of history. At the beginning of the tragedy, he put on a dark evening gown. I really admire Bernardo Berturucci. In such a short period of time, he used one of the few pictures to show the entire life of the most mysterious man in modern China. The frivolous and self-confidence of childhood, the rational pursuit of youth, the frustration of adulthood, the calmness of the vicissitudes of old age. The kind of dialogue that is always calm and calm, the Puyi in the middle always makes you feel a kind of helplessness. In this kind of helplessness, the audience also feels about themselves. This is the commonness of human beings. We are born free and omnipresent. In the shackles. Puyi's life is also the epitome and intersection of countless Chinese people in that era. The emperor is like this, so why didn't that countryman in the era of war and chaos suffer in the fire? The most regrettable scene is that the warden of Puyi was reformed in the Northeast Prison. The scene of being fought by the red soldiers on the street. Pu Yi rushed forward desperately to prove how revolutionary this man is and how he is a good man. How could he be a counter-revolutionary? Woolen cloth? Then he and the warden looked at each other, but were silent. Hong Xiaobing asked him, who are you? He replied that I am a gardener. At last he was pushed there, and he said, "If you want a revolution, follow me; if you don't revolution, you fucking fuck! Seeing the director’s humanistic sentiments in the last emperor at all times, the excitement in the red history is diluted, but not agitated, the sudden howling in the interrogation Puyi, the kicking and insulting of the red guards in the criticism, excitement Dance of the slogan, all this seems to be far away from us, but all this was just yesterday. Tomorrow, can we build a country under the rule of law in a substantial sense to protect everyone, including Puyi, without fear and helplessness, and true equality. In fact, Puyi in the play is already a Puyi who has instilled countless Western ideas. In the end, the old urchin-like person appeared in the place that once decided the fate of China, facing a child's question, and using a phantom cricket to explain his whole life. Life is the cricket in the cage, and returning to the basics is the realm. The worm is no longer the same one, but he is still there.

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  • Elinore 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    The first half is quite cute. The deepest impression is that the original English soundtrack and foreigners' cognition of Chinese history have such an indescribable optimism

  • Johanna 2021-12-08 08:01:48

    The ultimate beauty, the ultimate injury. The music is too good and the pictures are too refined. It turns out that as early as 1987, foreign directors had taken the 20th century Chinese history so thoroughly before "To Live" and "Farewell My Concubine"..."I've never been separated from my family" Ermian, Grandma, Wanrong, Johnston, Pujie, the palace... Puyi has spent her whole life saying goodbye to her family, time, history, and involuntary. @Shanghai International Film Festival 4k repaired version

The Last Emperor quotes

  • Emperor Pu Yi: After a few years, the tiny republic had become as corrupt as the old Empire. It fell quickly into the hands of ambitious generals and corrupt bureaucrats.

  • Pu Yi, at 15: I'm not a gentleman. I'm not allowed to say what I mean. They are always telling me what to say.