How to evaluate the last emperor?

Personally, I think the whole play is ok.

The Last Emperor was shot by 1987, and won 9 awards including best film at the 60th Oscar. The film was directed by the famous Italian director Benado bertolucci. This film has many firsts, including the first best film with China as its theme in Oscar history, and the first feature film (excluding documentary) allowed to be filmed in the Forbidden City.

The overall texture of the film is based on realistic memories, and the costumes and scenery follow a feeling of moderately exerting imagination on the basis of textual research, but if traced back to the source, it may be much more real than many Qing palace dramas now. Each stage of the film has different colors and light and shadow, which shows the mood that the director wants to convey and the mood of the characters in the play. Some film critics say that this film mainly uses natural light, but it is not. Natural lighting is different from using natural light. For example, although this lens looks like natural light, how can the parallel light of the sun reflect the shadows of the legs on both sides of the table? So in fact, there are light sources on both sides of the window to make the shadow become this shape.

Tone, light and shadow, and photography angle all change with the change of the protagonist's inner world, sometimes hazy, sometimes depressed, sometimes bright, sometimes sad, sometimes dreamy, sometimes realistic. The director's lens language is very elegant, especially those paragraphs in the Forbidden City in the first film, while the lens density and tension in the second film are slightly reduced, especially in the puppet Manchukuo. In addition, Benado is actually an Italian director whose desires and ideals are flying all over the sky. For example, Dream in Paris is his work, so there is always a description of lust in his films, which is also a very commendable part of the film.

Judging from the image of the film, the repeated appearance of cages and doors may actually indicate that the film will really achieve the theme of freedom and bondage. Puyi was born in an external Forbidden City and an internal imperial power cage, which was created for him by everyone. At first, he always wanted to go out and have a look and be free, but everyone wouldn't let him. But one day, when he was forced to leave the cage, he found that what he cared about in his heart was the emperor status he desperately wanted to earn in his childhood. So when I found him that day, he gave up his free life and willingly went to the palace of the puppet Manchukuo and was locked up again. However, with the defeat of Japan, everything went up in smoke. He was put in prison as a war criminal, but he still felt like an emperor, insisting on all the crimes committed by the Japanese army. In his long life, when he was released, whether forced, instructed by the warden or voluntary, he finally quietly gave up his identity as emperor. He returned to the Forbidden City with a dime ticket, took out the slug and let it out, but his face was full of relieved smiles. Because at this time, like Guo Si, he has climbed out of his own status as emperor and is finally free.

Unfortunately, he was not far from the end of his life at that time.