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Cristina 2022-04-22 07:01:28

I used to wonder why this film was not made in China, but now I am a little fortunate that it is not made in China.

A really good movie is like sadness but not sadness. It seems to be able to experience the twilight of a dynasty and the life of a puppet. Several times it seems that he is Puyi, but he can repeatedly jump between entering and leaving. Seeing in is as important as walking out. This is the viewer's experience; it is also Puyi's experience, the sudden arrival of the throne at the age of three, the Forbidden City that could not be entered, Ami and Wanrong could not go out when they left, and everyone may feel sad when they bought tickets to go home to the Forbidden City when they were old. , but I thought this was a good ending. He died in 1967. There was too much drama in the last emperor. Johnston, a Scottish teacher who was also a teacher and a friend, (author of Twilight of the Forbidden City), was kicked out by Feng Yuxiang In his own family, he was intimidated and appeased by Japanese forces in Shanghai, and he lost his beloved Wenxiu, and finally returned to the Northeast to establish a pseudo-Manchukuo state. Too many people regretted the decision, he missed the turning point of his fate. But no one can go against the trend of the times, even the emperor is no exception. It is a splendid life to be entered by blood and then pushed out by the times. It is not beautiful in the traditional sense, but it is also beautiful.

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  • Pu Yi, at 15: Is it true, Mr. Johnston, that many people out there have had their heads cut off?

    Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: It is true, your majesty. Many heads have been chopped off. It does stop them thinking.

  • Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned, and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he's the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front door. I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on Earth.