Two years ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see an autobiography called "The First Half of My Life" on an old bookshelf. Fu Yi wrote this book in the tone of confessing his sins and becoming a new man. I didn't read it, I turned a few pages, smiled softly, and never opened it again. This is not the Aisin Gioro Fu Yi I want to see.
Watching "The Last Emperor", I was suddenly calmer than ever. I sat in front of the computer with no expression and watched it for nearly two hours. The tone at the beginning, the realistic tone, reminds me of China under Antonioni's lens. I am curious about this color, but also hate it. Fu Yi committed suicide, recalling the tragic beginning of his life in pain. Historically, it is said that the Qing Dynasty had the dream of "celestial empire". Yes, it is such a beautiful and splendid dream that the Celestial Empire is a big dream, and no one is willing to wake up easily.
But at the end of the movie, in 1967, Fu Yi bought a ticket to the Forbidden City, and only Fu Yi walked into the empty Forbidden City alone. The moon and stars are sparse, the magpies fly south, circle the tree three times, and there is no branch to lean on." He stepped over the fence and walked on the steps as he did when he was a child. A doorman's child stopped him, he told the child "I am the last emperor of China", the child asked him "what is the proof", he smiled, proud, confident, gentle, sad, helpless, and brought it to the child A cricket cage hidden under the emperor's throne.
My tears suddenly flowed down in a panic, too late to clean up. The emperor of the previous generation could only prove himself with a cricket hidden under the golden throne, to prove that he really existed and lived, that he was the last emperor who was imprisoned under the golden throne in the Forbidden City. In prison, in people's hearts, in a dark cricket cage. Then, he disappeared, like a legend, and may be the last remnant of the Qing Dynasty, a pitiful last emperor.
I can't say pity him, what I can't restrain is my sadness. I still can't believe that the dynastic era of thousands of years hastily exited like this. A hundred years ago, the world was too fast, too cruel, too revolutionary. is not that right? It is not people who push the development of the times, it is the times that push people to stagger forward. It has always been like this, and it has always been. The Forbidden City, the only grand palace in the world, carries the ideal of ruling the country of the Ming monarchs of all dynasties, but at this time, it has also fallen into a desolate and empty place.
The music of the movie, Youyouyouyou, although it sounds very good, it is the sound of a country's subjugation. The soundtrack of the film is completed by Japanese musicians, because they have a stronger sense of sadness than Chinese people. The language of the film is English, because English is more straightforward than Chinese. The film is shot by European directors, because the film is skilled and brand new. political standpoint. The innovation of combining Chinese and Western, the perspective of Western humanitarianism, and the profound research and characterization of Eastern traditional culture. This is the reason why people generally praise this classic movie.
What I sigh is probably not the quality of this movie, not the character of Aixinjueluo Fuyi, nor Aixinjueluo Fuyi himself. The room in my house has a wall covered with pictures. The closest thing to my pillow is the history pictures cut out from history textbooks. Looking at them every day before going to bed, I feel kind and lonely, sad and grief-stricken, that is history, that thousands of fallen and stood.
Standing in front of the torrent of time, I felt unstoppable loneliness. They were vigorous and woeful. In prison, Fu Yi willingly confessed to all crimes, including crimes that had nothing to do with him. I think of Mr. Mu Dan's poem: For him I want to hug everyone, for him we lost the comfort of hugs.
A classmate once said that after accepting the new ideas, the Russian tsar's family was not forgiven by the people, and they were still murdered. Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, finally shot himself by hiding in the basement. Not a happy death but a neat death. And Fu Yi, who is in the system, can't be the last self. He is both an old cricket in a cricket cage and a magpie without a branch. He lives like he never lived.
More than a thousand years ago, a poet was banished to Yongzhou and wrote quatrains. He compared himself to a minnow, fishing for snow on the river alone, and fishing for nothing. The hearts of human beings have been connected for thousands of years. A fallen monarch and a relegated minor official fell into the same state of mind. The Tao is
"Thousands of mountains and birds fly away,
Wanjing disappeared.
Lonely boat Mino Liweng,
fishing alone in the cold river snow. "
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