I always thought I hated this place, but now I am afraid to leave——Puyi
In 1987, a movie directed by Italian director Bertolucci, with Chinese origin, was released in the West. At the beginning of its release, the film won a very high box office and word of mouth. In 1988, swept the 60th Oscar and won nine awards.
This movie, called "The Last Emperor", is a biographical movie, it is about the legendary emperor Aixinjueluo Puyi in the late Qing Dynasty, by At that time, the first beautiful male in Asia starred Zunlong.
The director used a cross-narrative approach, starting from the beginning of 1950, through the middle-aged Pu Yi, who returned to China, recalled the story of his "Emperor Time", this story There are real ones and some compiled ones. From the perspective of Westerners, is understood by Westerners. Between true and false, people can see a more three-dimensional and objective contradiction collection-Puyi.
The door and the woman are the most difficult and deepest memories of his life.
Regarding the intention of the door, too many people have written about the barrier and closure it represents, but few people have noticed that Puyi’s woman also played a heavy role in his life. This role and the door are relative.
In the movie, other women related to him in the real history are omitted, only the Empress Dowager Cixi, his biological mother, nursing mother, and the empress Wanrong and Shu Feiwen are brought out. Embroider a few, then, what did these women do?
Historical hostage, starting from Cixi
Three years old, still ignorant of the fun age, but received an order from a woman, received the palace and sat in a position where others would not dare to touch. It's useless for him to cry and find his mother, and it's useless to coquettishly go home to his father.
In the imperial palace, there can be no men. Except for himself, he watched the court ministers and men walking out of the gate, but he was close to the world outside the gate.
The ceremony of enthronement, a hundred officials worshipped, solemn and solemn, Xiao Puyi, who could not sit on the dragon chair, was in the dark, chasing the doorway under the yellow curtain Of light. He hopped after the slowly raised curtains, like the doomsday dusk of the Forbidden City, reflected on a three-year-old child. The screaming grasshopper and the curiosity of the three-year-old child played with those solemn The ignorance formed a very strong contrast.
Later, when Pu Yi’s younger brother Pu Jie was sent to the palace to study, there was a conflict between the two brothers. The reason was not other, but Pu Yi Inadvertently suffocated a touch of yellow from Pu Jie's sleeves.
In Puyi’s inherent cognition, he is the only person in the world who can use the imperial yellow, and other people use it as a great disrespect to the emperor and a challenge to imperial power. Pujie who is not convinced bluntly: 紫荆城Besides, there is another "emperor" (actually the president).
Even if Pu Yi didn’t believe it, when he climbed the high wall and saw the world outside the wall, his original thought of being aloof was hit like never before. All in the Forbidden City People's words were wrapped layer by layer with lies and beautified to his ears. He began to doubt everyone, all humanity, but to no avail.
The yellow of the Forbidden City, the yellow used by the director, has too much meaning, including the uniqueness of imperial power, and also the importance of the bureaucrats in the late Qing Dynasty to this little emperor.
They do not intend Pu Yi to change, develop, and grow, but only hope that he can defend the small court in the Forbidden City in name.
Puyi's existence is just a symbol to the outside world. It is the spokesperson who is still able to enjoy the benefits of the Qing Dynasty and still enjoys the benefits of the Qing Dynasty. The cruel thing is that everyone put this shackle on him , Ignoring his essence as a person.
Bertolucci once said that all his films are about a theme, that is, " individual is a hostage of history".
Puyi is the same. He is a prisoner in the Forbidden City, closed by eunuchs and hundreds of officials. On the bright side, he has the supreme honor and status. In the dark, he is inferior to a chicken and dog.
Of course, after all, film is a beautified art form, some dark truth, unknown to others is the respect for him, especially, those years in the Forbidden City Under the "care" of the eunuchs and palace people, the secret of Puyi's lack of physiological function has been weakened by the story demand of the movie.
In order to respect historical facts rationally, the script of "The Last Emperor" was written, and when it was officially filmed, Puyi's own autobiography "My First Half of My Life" and "Twilight of the Forbidden City" by Puyi teacher Johnston were referenced, and even , Directly invited Pu Yi's closest relative, Pu Jie, as a historical consultant.
Such comprehensiveness is just to bring the story closer to the historical truth, and even to maintain the historical truth.
Since the age of three, his life trajectory has undergone earth-shaking changes, but this change was brought to him by a dying woman—the Empress Dowager Cixi.
I don’t know if he ever imagined that if he hadn't been taken to the position of God at the age of three, if he hadn't become the marionette of all people, would he have a different fate.
The psychological abnormality of a lifetime comes from the lack of a mother image.
Puyi wrote in his autobiography: "The lactating mother is the only person in the palace who has told me that someone else is the same person as me. The only person who has reminded me that other people are also human"
is not what he could not think of, but everyone is instilling a sense of respect and inferiority in him, and only the nurse is telling others that people are equal.
is probably the same. His attachment to the nursing mother is beyond the boundary between the emperor and the minion. Even, his nursing mother replaced the image of Puyi’s mother and gave it He came from the warmth of his mother. Before those toffees in the Forbidden City forced his wet nurse away, was still an unweaned child psychologically.
The most shocking scene was when he sat next to the nurse, reached out and unbuttoned the nurse, and then leaned over and buried his head on the nurse’s chest, but everyone was not surprised at all. It seemed a trivial thing that was accustomed to. .
Puyi’s autobiography mentioned that she was forced to send her nursing mother away when she was 9 years old. The boy Puyi in the movie seems to be older. The same perspective is more shocking.
On the night when Pu Yi and his queen were married, when the two were close, Wan Rong's clothes were half-undressed to reveal a looming chest, which also contained deep meaning.
Puyi and a group of eunuchs are sticking to the curtains, enjoying being touched and touched. Such behavior is a bit dirty, but it also proves the psychological difference of Puyi. There is a comment on
on Douban: The most attractive thing to me is the erotic desire inside.
Actually, just from a few screens to understand this way, it seems that there is nothing wrong, but it seems to think hard for the director. There is a misunderstanding about what to express.
The last emperor understood by Bertolucci is indeed legendary. It is the same as everyone’s understanding, but after everyone understands, the focus is on his legend , But ignores his humanity trajectory as a historical victim.
At first glance, the kiss with the empress Wanrong, the 3P entanglement with the queen concubine, the ambiguous behavior between the empress and the Japanese spy, it seems that there are lusts in it, but is it really that simple?
About "The Last Emperor", there was an interesting passage written by a film critic: Our history requires not only data and truth, but also artistic expression and fable The inspiration of style, and those unforgettable pictures evoke memories of the group.
As Xiao Xi said earlier, Pu Yi’s youth in the Forbidden City was not entirely majestic and inviolable. He also had many dark methods from eunuchs and palace people, but the director changed the scene. Grafting such a picture onto him and his wife seemed logical.
The movie is polite and sensible. It gives Puyi a normal body and a barely normal mental process.
Why is it reluctant?
When he was reforming war criminals in Fushun, a dialogue between the warden and him may have given us the answer.
"I am responsible for everything"
"You are only responsible for your own actions. In your life, you always think that you are superior to others, and now you are Think that you are worse than others"
"Why can't you let me work quietly? You save me so that I can be your puppet. You save me because I am useful to you."
He has made marionettes too many times, and he has taken too much responsibility on himself. Many times he desperately He wanted to crawl out of the net that fate had opened to him, but no matter how he struggled, he was still trapped inside, like the little mouse that was finally trapped in the Forbidden City and fell to death by him.
That was the only life he could control at the time, and it was the only power that could embody him as the "son of heaven".
He has been the emperor four times in his life. Only when he became a legal citizen and became the "collective emperor", he truly became himself and was truly weaned psychologically.
The impact of dignity and responsibility is his wife and concubine
Puyi’s legend, in addition to those political affairs inside and outside the Forbidden City, as well as his family .
He once thought that he would be an adult when he got married, he could be pro-government, he could reform, he could go out boldly, and he could even decide whether to stay abroad.
But this extravagant dream, he never finished it in his entire life.
Wanrong and Wenxiu are luckier than him. They both received Western education early and they also have very fashionable avant-garde ideas. Although they were imprisoned by the Forbidden City for a period of time, they did not stop them from understanding the world. know.
When Puyi recognized that the Qing Dynasty was dead, when they were forced to leave the Forbidden City, when he mentioned the word restoration again and again, we thought it was him His ambitions are really just because of his habits.
The ancestral industry must be kept, and the dignity of the heaven must be maintained. This is his childhood education.
But in the end he couldn't even control his concubine. This is the saddest thing. As they slowly become warlords and puppets of Japan, Wenxiu also sees its head in such a marriage.
She was depressed and filed for divorce, and ran away in a heavy rain. The servant held an umbrella for her. She let go of the umbrella and let the rain hit her. Relief and freedom, let her open a lot in an instant.
But in history, the divorce proposed by Wenxiu is far less simple than leaving. She and Puyi also went to court because of the divorce, and became a topical figure because of this matter, "刀妃 Revolution" Nouns have followed her all their lives, , and the mutual complaints between her and Puyi afterwards also made Puyi's legendary life more interesting.
If the Wenxiu incident made Puyi the first emperor to be retired in history, it was a blow to his self-esteem, then the fact that the queen Wanrong derailed the guard and gave birth to a child became Puyi A lifetime of humiliation, of course, is more than humiliation.
The movie adds more meaning to this derailment and this child.
Puppet Manchukuo needs the crown prince, and Japan also needs the heir of the Puppet Manchukuo state. Therefore, when Wan Rong downplayed the fact that she was pregnant, Puyi never saw her face except for the initial shock. Anything else, until Wan Rong gave birth to her daughter and was killed, and the moment Wan Rong was forced to be sent to the lunatic asylum, he chased him out, but in the end he just yelled the sentence: "开门" Entanglement again.
This is the third chase in his life, the third time he shouted to open the door, but he himself knew that he could not catch up with all the departures, and he could not open all the doors.
Two years later, the crazy Wanrong reappeared, but he no longer looked gentle and generous at that time, and he was eager to escape and did not take care of it, He is not a wicked person, but he can't keep any of them. I'm sorry.
Eventually, he became a war criminal imprisoned in Fushun and started a ten-year career as a war criminal. It was not until the day of the amnesty that he became a legal citizen, and his tragedy was over half of his life. , It’s just that buying tickets to go home has since become a memory that everyone remembers in history.
Although surreal expressions are used at the end of the movie, the grasshopper that came out of the bottle alive looks like a real rebirth after becoming a citizen Puyi , despite struggling for decades, he eventually crawled out of the Qing Dynasty, where he had lived most of his life.
