"The Last Emperor" is a history of declining Chinese emperors. The emotional life of a man and two women. The background of political wars intertwined, the process of growing up a lonely young man in a claustrophobic red city wall...
Wan Rong/Chen Chong.
An actress who should have been in the history of Chinese cinema began to lose her name after she went to the United States. Maybe this is what she wanted. I'm sorry to say that if someone my age didn't show off their movie-watching taste, no one would look for the movies she had made in the first place as a nostalgia. When I was young, Chen Chong was the only woman who could contend with Liu Xiaoqing, and Gong Li was all after the 1990s.
Later, I learned some news about her one after another, and directed "Tian Yu" won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award, making Li Xiaolu the youngest Golden Horse actress. It's a pity that because she has not liked this girl, she has no interest in movies. Later, Chen Chong came back to play some innocent roles in some TV dramas. I don't know whether he was bored by his friends or forced by his livelihood. Perhaps it has a deeper connotation. I don't know anything about ordinary people.
I was three years old in 1988, and Chen Chong should be in his early thirties at this time, with a melancholy and tragic face that is unique to Eastern women. Seventeen-year-old Wanrong married into the imperial palace and became the wife of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. For this man who was n years younger, Wanrong knew that she liked him when she saw his face for the first time. Such a young 17-year-old Wanrong faced a man who was more ignorant and ignorant than her beloved, she resolutely played the role of inducing. They kissed and devoted themselves, but they were not lusty and dirty. Some of them were just new people. Worship the body of the opposite sex. They kissed and let the servant back down for them. Even though the movements were gentle, they still aroused the forgetful people. Then Puyi Zhang Huang left, and the seed of love sprouted.
Then came a long series of migrations, Tianjin, Manchuria, a woman was burdened with the pressure of a long feudal dynasty restoration, a man who was the hereditary successor of the dynasty but was cowardly in nature, and came from the flogging of her Manchu aristocratic lineage, and Japan. It is a shame to ravage the country unscrupulously.
The appearance of Yoshiko Kawashima changed the life of this woman, indulging in the happiness brought by opium, with the wound of escaping from reality, living in a smoke-filled psychedelic, irrational panic.
Cheating with the guards, getting pregnant, and even the possibility of concealing it has never existed. Because Pu Yi never had sex with her. Such a flower-like woman can't get the love of her husband. Chen Chong's performance was sad. She ate the petals one bite at a time, chewed hard, and then shed two rows of clear tears, as if she was in extreme pain but desperately suppressed love, desire, destiny or simply suppressed herself.
Repression is a woman's natural character, she forbears and grieves alone.
Compared to the TV version of Wanrong, Chen Chong is undoubtedly more like a queen. Regardless of the appearance or the incomparable pride exuding from the bones; but Jiang Wenli is more like an intriguing shrew. It's hard to tell what the real Wanrong looks like, but I appreciate the former more.
Perhaps due to the length of the movie, many of Wanrong's deeds were not shown one by one, such as her beautiful piano. The prince’s beloved daughter received an American education since she was a child. Elizabeth, who has a hearty and unrestrained personality, should have been blooming to the fullest, but she withered prematurely in the movie.
At the end of the movie, Wan Rong went crazy. When she returned to the Manchuria mansion supported by the caregiver, she spurned every Chinese and Japanese who had taken care of her and imprisoned her freedom...and the life
that was manipulated as a puppet. This was Wanrong’s last time in the movie. Appearing is a tragic ending that I have always liked. It is full, unique, and lonely...
Pu Yi/Zun Long
didn't know Zun Long until last year's "Self-Entertainment".
It may be because of my consistent aesthetic vision that I missed such an outstanding Chinese actor.
The first is the appearance of the actor, which is currently rare, sunny and handsome, the kind borrowed from Andy Lau and Liu Ye. Thick eyebrows and big eyes, thin and thin. That's what the young man looked like seventeen years ago. I realized once again that the movie I watched has been completed for so long, and now these people are probably no longer a duo.
Pu Yi is melancholic. From the age of three, he left the care of his mother and was brought into the palace by the nanny, and became the most eye-catching emperor, and became the loneliest and most insecure child. Surrounding him are a group of purified "men" and palace ladies who have lived in the palace for a long time. This is also a hidden danger that later led to the tragedy of Puyi's life.
Pu Yi was surrounded because he was at least the ruler of this ancient imperial city, even though it was only in the imperial city. In his childhood, Pu Yi received three gifts: the companionship of the first emperor Pujie, the minister’s dedication to Germany, how The bicycle brought by Johnston.
The most vulnerable part is Pu Yi's outlook on family affection.
Eminem was secretly sent out of the palace so that Pu Yi lost the only remaining warmth. This woman has played the role of Puyi's spiritual mother for a long time. What she provides is not only the milk that nurtures him, but also the selfless love of a mother for her child.
This also led to the trampling of human nature in ancient Chinese feudal society.
Another woman is Pu Yi's biological mother. She could not even be called by later generations. When Puyi was polite and cold and mixed with resisting greetings, she said quietly: "From the moment they took you away from me, I have reached the ending of today." How innocent she is, a forced A woman who has lost a child can do nothing but sympathize with her.
In the last scene, Pu Yi learned the news of her mother’s death, and rode her bicycle madly towards the gate of the forbidden city, which symbolized the end of power. The guards were no longer familiar guards in memory, but soldiers armed with guns by the warlord...
Pu Yi yelled and opened the door, but no one responded. He began to realize the weakness of the imperial power in his hand, and realized that he had to fight to defend this old and noble family.
What I have to mention is that the boy who plays the role of the young Puyi, Junyi's appearance seems to be no longer the focus of attention. What stands out is the precocious, clever and aloof soul. This is very much like the white-clothed boy in Shunji Yanjing's movie, with a growing pain that is too strong to be able to be removed. This kind of boy has always been my favorite. He doesn't like to talk and walks with his head down. Wearing bulky clothes is more and more light and slender. The hair is soft and thick, lying on the head, smiling in the sun, but still looking for the soft and stubborn light in the eyes. The background wheat field, quiet, gentle, melancholy...
As far as Pu Yi in the movie is concerned, he is unwilling to be a doll at the mercy of others. This is why I have never hated this politician. At least he did not turn his back on the country for pleasure. As he said, I Also try to use Japan...Of course this is his wishful thinking.
There is no doubt that Pu Yi is cowardly. This is related to his long-term living in an unhealthy environment. At a critical juncture, he will show a depressed posture, let go, and let others slaughter him. He could not control the situation or even the women around him. Wanrong and Wenxiu chose to leave him... During
the ten years in the detention center, Puyi learned the way of life. As long as the essence of life, all the materials provided by the government also show that he can get it. A positive understanding. The reason why I say this is to question as a person who still has some questioning spirit. What a serious wording of political prisoners in the transition of a newly born red regime, this country, under the strict defense of pure Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, does not allow any remnants of feudal forces to tarnish his sacredness. Although there will be cadres like the head of the detention center who will treat prisoners on a humanitarian basis, the extreme unity of the entire organization makes it easy for me to think of the US military's abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war. What worries me even more is the inferiority that exists in the peasants-bullying and ridiculing those who are weaker than themselves. Indifferent will not deny their simplicity and kindness, but these are for the people, and Pu Yi was not qualified to belong to this glorious group at the time.
After being released, Puyi lived a relatively peaceful life as a Qing History Research Park, which was only mentioned in the film. I think that as a person, Pu Yi's nature has been basically wiped out, and the remaining body and consciousness in his head are just another clockwork orange transformed by the government. It is said that during this period, he wrote a book called "The Second Half of My Life", which described his life as an ordinary citizen.
I very much do not want to believe that this is Pu Yi's remarks from the heart, and I am more willing to do it because of some kind of political pressure. Pu Yi in my subjective conjecture should be the dignity in the bloody night that can't be worn away until death. This may be my yearning for a strong man...
Until now, Pu Yi and Wanrong still stay in the movie to tell us this sad but not hurtful end-time feelings.
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