But this film shows Puyi's life from a foreigner's perspective. This film basically does not have too many critical shots, and it is not hypocritical at all. It just tells the history of that period, let us read it by ourselves.
Puyi left his parents to take the throne in the Forbidden City since he was a child. At a young age, he did not yet understand how this position would affect him. He is naughty, playing with grasshoppers, teasing eunuchs, and relying on wet nurses. But he was eager to go home, but this siege-like Bauhinia City was like a prison, and he was firmly bound there.
When he grew up, he married Wanrong and Wenxiu; then he was expelled from Bauhinia City; determined to revive the empire, he went to Manchukuo to be a puppet emperor. He never gave up his dream of rebuilding the empire. But it is doomed that he can only be a pawn of the Japanese.
After the end of World War II, he was detained as a war criminal for 10 years. At this time, he was open-minded, without resentment, without ambition, and only had memories of the past.
When he was about to die, he returned to the Forbidden City, and then passed away silently. In this way, his bumpy but legendary life ended.
Puyi's life was rich and three-dimensional. He studied Western culture and tried to reform within the court. Longing for freedom, I once dreamed of living in a western country. Ambitious, trying to restore the Qing Dynasty. But it seems that none of these are implemented. But he has worked hard and fought for the ideal in his heart.
He was the first emperor to wear glasses for a long time. He was also the first emperor to divorce. The first emperor to be a prisoner. In fact, he has been in the annals of history in many ways.
The fate of other characters is also saddened. Wanrong from the beginning of the flourishing to the miserable later. The fierceness and tenderness of Yoshiko Kawashima. Prison chiefs were miserable during the Cultural Revolution. All show the shock of that era to everyone's destiny. It also added a different color to that history.
The director's grasp of details is worthy of the title of a master. A few scenes in particular impressed me a lot. 1. When her wet nurse was sent away, he cried and chased him out, but when his mother died, he was not so sad. Having left his parents since he was a child, he has long since not known what family love is, and only his nanny is his spiritual sustenance. 2. When his brother came to see him, he said he had never seen other children. Although he is an emperor, he has no freedom in life at all, and naturally he has lost the most beautiful age of innocence. 3. His younger brother told him that he was no longer the emperor, and that there was a great president outside. When Pu Yi went to ask the officials, the answer he got was: Inside the Forbidden City, you are still the emperor, but outside, you are not. The young Puyi felt a huge humiliation. The emperor at this time was just a symbol, and even this symbol was crumbling. Therefore, Puyi's life was doomed to be bumpy. 4. When he was dying and returned to the Forbidden City, he bought a ticket and sat on the throne for a while. This used to be his home, his territory, but at this time he had to buy a ticket to enter, which was too desolate.
As the last emperor of China, his life was colorful and ups and downs. His death brought an end to the centuries-old history of the Qing Dynasty. With the ups and downs of the Qing Dynasty, his legendary life will not be turned into the dust of history, but will be passed down as a legendary story for a long time.
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