when love is already past

Aron 2022-03-25 09:01:16

Life is like a drama, drama is like life. The play can be repeated, but life cannot be repeated even once. How lively the play is, how heavy is life. Cheng Dieyi, Duan Xiaolou, Juxian, three little people in the turbulent era, three of the thousands of historical martyrs, in the film Farewell My Concubine, together they sketched out for us what is not in the rolling red dust. The love, hatred, love, hatred that people have escaped, the complexity of human nature, the helplessness of life, and the difficulty of human beings trying to change their own suffering and destiny. Let people look at it, and it is very sad.

I'm afraid this is Chen Kaige as the director, Gu Changwei as the director of photography can't surpass his peak work; not to mention Cheng Dieyi played by my brother who is not crazy and can't survive, even the little beans played by Ma Mingwei and Yin Zhi can't be copied, let alone. A classic that may be surpassed. This film truly and profoundly reflects the tragic reality from the eve of the Anti-Japanese War to the period of the Cultural Revolution. Every actor's performance is full of tension. The most remarkable one is of course Leslie Cheung, and Cheng Dieyi has become an eternal classic.

Every actor who can become an artist will have a work carved into his life. For Leslie Cheung, Farewell My Concubine is a work of art that can become a masterpiece in his splendid and beautiful life; for Chinese films, this kind of work A film that spans many ages and depicts little people to confirm the development and changes of the times is the most suitable form of expression to record the ancient Chinese country with countless history of suffering; Movies that are going to go into history.

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Farewell My Concubine quotes

  • Master Yuan: A smile ushers in the spring.

    Master Yuan: A tear does darken all the world.

    Master Yuan: How truly does this befit you. To you... only you are possessed of such charm.