The composition, light and shadow, and color are all wonderful films.
In the film, the camera records the helplessness of a lonely individual in such a historical background. What Puyi has to do in his life is to be an emperor. From the moment he was inexplicably brought to the Forbidden City at the age of 3, he was learning to be an emperor. But when he was a teenager, his younger brother told him that he was not an emperor at all, he was just an emperor in the Forbidden City, and the real emperor rode a car and ruled China outside the Forbidden City. Then he grew up, he met Western mentors, he came into contact with Western civilization, and he wanted to reform, at least in his Forbidden City. This kind of thinking of his has not gone away for a day. In Manchukuo, he is still an emperor, but he is such an incompetent emperor, an emperor who can't even protect his wife and his nominal child. After ten years of reform through labor, he encountered the Cultural Revolution and the prison warden who was kind to him during the reform through labor, but found that the "emperor" who was madly loved by the people pushed such a good teacher into the ranks of the parade.
I want to cry, I want to cry all the time. We almost forget about this piece of history. This man has lived his whole life with the title of the last emperor of China, and will continue to live in the history of China, but who ever cared about his life and how he felt , his small and huge sense of helplessness in the face of history, his use of layers in various power struggles, he is so innocent that he is the emperor, the emperor who can rule the world. But he has no descendants of his own, no relatives of his own. His biological mother left him, his wet nurse left him, her imperial mother left him, his wife and concubines left him, and finally stayed by his side He has only one younger brother, and this is his only luck. Who can withstand such a huge change in life?
The movie is asking the Chinese, what kind of person is the emperor? What kind of person is the emperor worshipped by the Chinese? This is the answer that Puyi has been thinking about all his life. In the end, he entered the Forbidden City again. He used to load the familiar dragon as a plaything when he was young, a cricket that turned from green to black. That's it, the director is telling us that maybe nothing has changed for so many years. Although the dragon seat is empty, there is always someone sitting in the hearts of Chinese people. It's not Puyi, it's not M, it's not anyone, it's the emperor. people.
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