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This is the first feature film filmed in the Forbidden City with domestic permission. He was the last emperor of China.

Douban scored 9.3 points, and Top250 ranked 30th. That year, it won nine Oscars, including the best film.

Recently, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been replaying one after another. What is the magic power of the last emperor recorded in Shadow History?

The core clue of The Last Emperor is the life of Aisin Giorro Puyi. He was elected as the new emperor at an early age and finally became an ordinary person.

His life was full of ups and downs, from Qing Dynasty to New China, from emperor to war criminal. Based on his experience, this film has strung together the changeable history of China for half a century.

There are two clues in The Last Emperor, one is Puyi's private life, and the other is the changes of the times he experienced.

But apart from his love with Wanrong and his association with his brother Pu Jie, his personal experience is highly related to history.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was admitted to the Forbidden City and met Cixi, a child of several years old, who suddenly became the supreme emperor.

Soon, during the Beiyang government, there was a great president, and Puyi was still the emperor, just in the Forbidden City.

Then the national government came, and he was kicked out of the Forbidden City, so he had to be a playboy in Tianjin.

He fantasized about restoring his former glory, so he went to Manchuria and became a puppet of the Japanese.

In Manchuria, he was caught by Soviet soldiers and became a war criminal. Finally, he was reformed and became an ordinary person.

Modern changes and historical trends are all reflected in movies and integrated into Puyi's life.

He used to be the best man, but in fact, he has always been pushed by the times and fate.

Even in the Forbidden City, he seems to be free, but in fact everything is manipulated, and he has no decision-making ability, even if he wants to check the royal collection. Someone set fire that night.

As a feudal emperor, he was greatly influenced by the west. He yearns for the west and wants to go to England. He hates and loves the Forbidden City, which is his complexity.

Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was also the last emperor of the feudal dynasty in China history. His experience itself is full of stories.

Bertolucci, who directed The Paris Dream and 1900, also has enough experience in historical subjects.

1990

Before the filming of The Last Emperor, the director made great efforts to find relevant parties as much as possible.

The film is based on the book Dusk in the Forbidden City written by Pu Yi's teacher Zhuang Shidun, and then refers to Pu Yi's autobiography My First Half Life and other works.

Pu Jie, Puyi's younger brother, and Li Wenda, who helped Puyi complete his autobiography, were both hired as consultants.

The crew was in the Forbidden City and gained great freedom. There are no restrictions on the content of this film in China, and they cooperated with the filming to make this classic.

The starting point of film selection is Puyi. At that time, in the Forbidden City, where feudal forces were most deeply rooted, Puyi's every move was of great symbolic significance.

Wearing glasses, cutting braids and riding bicycles are the changes of Puyi as an individual, but as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he represented the irresistible trend of the times at that time.

Therefore, this film has both epic temperament and biographical form, which can be seen from the small to the big. Look at the changes of that era with Puyi's eyes. Puyi is an introduction, but this introduction is very important.

Puyi played by John Lone and Wanrong played by Chen Chong are very suitable roles. The last emperor was also the peak of their performance career and their most representative works.

At the same time, regardless of the top level of photography, color, picture, soundtrack and technology, the film is full of beauty and charm, and it has become an unrepeatable classic.

The last emperor used flashbacks to frame the whole story, which is somewhat similar to "Once upon a time in America". In the film, Puyi constantly dreams of the glory of the past, intertwined with the loneliness of the present.

He has a very special identity. He is an emperor, but he is not a great man. He is an ordinary man trapped by history. He is at the center of the storm, but he has no ability to control the current situation.

He is out of the aura of identity and can't even take care of himself in life. He can't tie buttons and shoelaces. The downfall of the Qing Dynasty was the last awakening of the last emperor.

Just like the end of the film, in the 1960s, Puyi reached the last moment of his life, revisited his hometown, bought a ticket and returned to the Forbidden City, where he grew up.

He stumbled in the Forbidden City and passed the no entry sign. Nothing has changed, but everything has changed again. The only sign that he is the emperor is the cricket jar taken out of the corner.

Except for this little jar, the past is like a big dream, which disappears with the passage of time, and at this time, the emotion of the film has reached its peak.

The last emperor is a story completely belonging to China, but it was shot by a foreigner.

Admittedly, this work is neither completely pure nor completely objective. In the eyes of a foreigner, modern China is full of miracles.

Even many scenes, from the western imagination, may not be completely in line with historical facts, but there are also positions that come first.

However, the value of The Last Emperor is that it ensures the realism and coherence of the story inside the film and provides an angle to interpret it with images.

The director told this story, and the audience who watched this masterpiece seemed to have experienced Pu Yi's life, and their hearts were mixed.

Whether in the artistic level, cultural level or historical level, the last emperor is special enough to be worth seeing.