The first picture that was deeply shocked was when Puyi was kicked out of the Forbidden City, his resoluteness. The two women turned their heads from time to time, watching Meridian Gate quickly move away from them with seemingly the same unease but completely different moods, wondering if this was their first time in a car. If so, the sense of speed and the sudden separation are enough to make them even more at a loss. Puyi was different, he was full of pleasure at that time. He finally stepped out of the heavy gate, and despite such a distressed and desolate situation, he still walked happily. Even though there was boundless emotion and anger in his heart, when he arrived on the other side after more than ten years of longing, he probably didn't have time to think about the historical significance of his departure. At that time, he was no longer an emperor, just a prisoner. too long boy. When he walked away, it seemed like a cicada had escaped its shell? The difference is that this cicada has been lying down for too long, and although it broke out of the shell, it is really dizzy.
Then Wu Junmei's divorce shocked me. I don't know if it's historical or not. Everyone knows the meaning of divorce in Puyi, so I won't go into details. It was the fall of a dynasty, the end of an era, the best personal reminder for a king.
After that, the bigfoot eunuch was very interesting. He always took care of Puyi for 3 years in prison, and even 3 years later, Puyi's clothes were still buttoned wrongly. On the day bigfoot was released, in front of everyone, despite being reprimanded and warned, he still cried and squeezed the buttons for Puyi, shouting for the last time, and after buttoning the buttons, he carefully found that his shoelaces were not tied. good. It was yelling to tie his shoelaces one last time. I was very moved. It's a goodbye, not just a servant anymore. It's two people who have been dreaming who have to wake up and say goodbye to parting. That bigfoot has found a wife, has a child and wants to live a new life. The days of being a servant in the city are deep in the bones and can't be restrained, no matter how much suffering and humiliation it is, life is all there is. I guess it really hurt when he shouted to serve Puyi for the last time. It was as if the whole person had been stripped of a layer of skin, detached from the past. No matter how ugly it is, it is also yourself, and the pain is unavoidable.
I don't know why the period of the Cultural Revolution was added. Perhaps Bertolucci was greedy, and even the events of the last year of Puyi's life were included. I always feel that that period of history is extremely important to China, but to a last king who is no longer an emperor, that year doesn't mean much. The filming was so real, I laughed out loud when I saw it. I have read some books that describe the events of that era. There is no way to sigh, whether it is absurd or helpless, I know that I cannot survive in that era. Ha, like the director, off topic.
I knew for a long time that at the end of The Last Emperor, a primary school student would have a confrontation with Puyi. I know Puyi will go back to the Forbidden City after liberation and buy a ticket to go home. I doubt I'll actually see this scene. Because I thought it was going to be such a cruel, deeply sad scene, to such an extent that I doubted a movie would ever be able to do it. The end of a dynasty and the beginning of a history weigh on a living person at the same time. The heaviness will burst out the moment he steps into the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The infinite emotion, the whole box of memories will be overwhelming. Can't you breathe? I really thought the ending would be bad, because it was too heavy for anyone, any director, any pictures, words or explicit things to express the fragility and insignificance of people in front of time.
Ha, it turned out that Director Bei was very smart, and he bypassed that difficulty. He made a "dream back to the Forbidden City", which seemed to be true and false, to make Puyi's return and the encounter with the children of the new era illusory. The primary school student opened up the secret behind the dragon chair. The cricket that was given to Puyi when he ascended the throne jumped out of the box and lay on the bright red scarf, looking very alive. He used hyper-spatial processing. 2 children are linked by a cricket. I don't understand the intention, but at least this treatment avoids the heaviness of the dream of returning to the Forbidden City. This kind of ending makes people curious, makes people smile, and appreciates the passage of time. Probably the director also knew how pale and powerless the image was at that time.
Really need to slow down and watch the movie. It's just that English hates a bit, while I still admire the Italians' imagination. Satisfied with his relatively faithful record. love this video. recommend.
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