Johnston, an Englishman, became the emperor's tutor, Puyi received a good Western education, proficient in English, and open-minded, And has the arrogance of an emperor whose dream is to travel to the West. At this stage, I think the actors are well chosen. They are handsome and have a temperament. They have just changed their voices, and they are very confident and assertive. It feels very good to play Puyi in this period. These are very different from the last emperor in our impression. In our history textbooks, Aisin Gioro Puyi is a wretched, timid, betrayal clown, but the Italians use romantic pictures to give us a new interpretation. In the Forbidden City at dusk, the 14-year-old last emperor rode a bicycle to wander in the Forbidden City. With an active mind, he looked forward to the outside world. He never left the Forbidden City. Then the gate of the Forbidden City closed tightly (the captain of the guard turned out to be Chen Kaige...), and he shouted "Open the door!" He was the loneliest boy in the world.
At the age of marriage, Puyi, who accepted Western ideas, was disgusted by the appointed marriage, and he shouted: "I want a fashionable empress, who can speak English and French, and dance quick step!" No matter what, he had no freedom of choice. .
The Kuomintang won the Northern Expedition and occupied Beijing, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered the expulsion of the Qing imperial family from the Forbidden City. Puyi fled to the Japanese consulate and bid farewell to Johnston, his tutor for more than ten years. Johnston returned to England and wrote his famous memoir, Twilight at the Forbidden City. Puyi, who left the Forbidden City for the first time, just went from one prison to another. Under the arrangement of the Japanese, Puyi became the emperor of Manchukuo. He thought he had fulfilled his wish to become emperor again and show his grand plans. He didn't understand that he was just a puppet. It took him a few years to see all this clearly, and in front of him, another door was closed. This time, "Open the door" shouted a lot weaker.
Japan was defeated, and when he was handed over to the CCP by the Soviet Union as a prisoner of war, he knew that death would be inevitable, so he cut his wrists and committed suicide, and was rescued by the warden. This part of the prison is also very exciting, such as the loyal servants of the year and the humiliation of the former high-ranking officials of Manchukuo, and Puyi who was shocked when he saw the Japanese massacre and bacteria experiments. Slowly stood up. Still the same, it's all up to him. But he still maintained the emperor's restraint, admitting responsibility for all crimes. In 1959, he was granted amnesty, and he became an ordinary Chinese citizen. This was the first time he had gained a little freedom. The good times did not last long, and the turbulent Cultural Revolution came. A group of Red Guards shouted "Revolution is innocent, rebellion is justified", held up the portrait of Chairman Mao, and surrounded the "capitalist roaders" and marched all the way. Puyi's expression was complicated, "They are so young." What he saw was a new emperor. Suddenly, he discovered that it was the warden who was in charge of reforming him back then who was criticized for parading the streets... The
last time the last emperor walked into his palace back then, he bought a ticket. Sitting on the dragon chair, he said to a child with a red scarf, "I was the emperor back then." As he said that, he took out the cricket bucket that was hidden underneath when he was three years old when he was enthroned... This is the end of his legendary life. end. A lifetime of helplessness, a lifetime of inability to help yourself, these characteristics are easier for Westerners to notice. This classic movie very romantically tells the tragic life in the changing times.
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