o-72009 Review of Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Epic -- the great narration of modern Chinese history

[10/10 · 26 December 2019]

This is a film about the modern history of China. If you are not in this history, you may have a lot of confusion.Even 157 minutes of movie time can be boring.The story begins with Peking Opera.This is an ancient oriental drama with incomparable dreams.It means the same to China as Shakespeare's plays do to England.But the story is not limited to it. Instead, it takes Beijing opera as the background and takes us into those 50 years with the life of two Peking Opera actors and Chinese history.You can see the change of government, the civil war, chaos, despair, obsession, and the biggest cultural destruction revolution in history.You can realize the fall and annihilation of an ideal character.Film photography is also excellent. Lens transformation, wide-angle, mobile photography, coupled with the color of memory, film directors and photographers use skilled skills to combine a large number of messy scenes into a wonderful story, and use these stories to create epic.In addition, I would like to thank the film actors for their wonderful performances. Zhang Guorong even got the best actress nomination of Cannes Film Festival. There are nearly a hundred characters in the film, but each one is very impressive. Their vivid performance will let you immerse in that period of history without feeling strange or weird.I highly recommend this movie!