As a banner-level work in the Chinese film industry and a film with world-class honors, "Farewell My Concubine" has both an epic structure and cultural connotations. Under the background of profound Peking Opera art, it strongly demonstrates the dislocation and dislocation of human roles. The versatility and richness in the face of disasters, the power of human nature contained in it, and the wonderful performances of the actors have conquered numerous movie audiences all over the world.
The film describes the art of Peking opera with the deepest accumulation of Chinese culture and the life of Peking opera artists, and it delicately shows the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, human living conditions and human nature. "Farewell My Concubine" passionately tells a story that lasts for half a century. The film not only has a deep sense of history, but also has a delicate masculine friendship and an epic structure. It shows the sorrows and joys of partings and meetings of the little people mixed with the development of China's history over the past half a century.
"Farewell My Concubine" is one of the most classic works in Chinese film history, and it has brought Leslie Cheung a lofty international reputation. "Farewell My Concubine" talks about the half-century of the sorrows and joys of partings and meetings of two Peking opera performers, but it actually speaks of the Chinese people's thinking and understanding of the state of human existence and human nature.
The change of times is closely connected with the turning of the characters' fate, sociality and nationality are closely connected, faith and reality are closely connected. Chen Kaige said he wanted to film a story about "fascination and betrayal", so he took this one. The story of "True Yuji, False Overlord", the dislocation of human nature and the heavy blow of the disaster give the film a multi-faceted and rich drama. Coupled with Leslie Cheung's almost perfect interpretation of "Cheng Dieyi", it can be said that both in film and performance, "Farewell My Concubine" is a peak in China's century-old film history.
