I think the most convincing thing about this movie is the details. These details include the scenes, the clothes, and the historical details that are less than a few minutes in the movie but almost affect the generations of Chinese people. First of all, the macro compilation at the beginning of the movie generally shows the audience the atmosphere and rules of the late Qing court. This is an introduction to the court culture of the late Qing Dynasty. Perhaps in our opinion, this magnificence is more like "Turando" on the stage. What also touched me is that the roads in the movie are all muddy roads! I don't know if you have noticed that in most of the films of Chinese directors, the road surface in the late Qing Dynasty and even the Tang Dynasty was cement. So the feeling of fresh earth in this movie makes people "tearful". In the end, the director didn't want to criticize anything in the movie with a big fanfare, but a very elegant and objective performance, such as Yuan Shikai's boarding of the Taihe Temple, that period of turmoil, only the 15-year-old Puyi and Johnston's dialogue. :
Puyi asked: Is it true, Mr. Johnston, that many people out there have had their heads cut off?
Johnston answered: It is true, your majesty. Many heads have been chopped off. It does stop them thinking.
Very tactful, Very classic.
To deal with the problems of Japan, the director did not directly portray their sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, but used the suicide of an officer, the emperor's announcement of Japan's surrender on the radio, and a documentary broadcast in prison to show their heinousness.
Time flies, the last emperor who was majestic and majestic in the past has now become a rickety old man, and then greeted a neatly organized team on the gray streets, carrying a giant portrait of Mao Zedong, shouting, "Long live Chairman Mao. !" How would he feel? When he saw the warden, the man who had saved him, was entrusted by the Red Guards to criticize him, he wanted to defend, but his strength was minimal. Bertollu only said "It must be wrong! He is a good peoson!" through Pu Yi
that it was some very subtle details that shocked and surprised people. At the same time, he would never hate Pu Yi, a tragic person. Because he was going to rule the entire old society in China, it was a product of the system, that is, the Forbidden City, which imprisoned him. However, it was because of this imprisonment that he entered the imprisonment of the Japanese. He had never received any education or information to adapt to the rapidly changing society, from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and finally he was old. I am very old, and I have really adapted to this society. I don’t know if it is a kind of comfort or a kind of sorrow?
However, I know that that period of history, especially under the lens of foreign directors, is a pain for me!
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