From emperor to prisoner.#movie #shorts #film #history
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The Last Emperor (1987), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, tells the life of Puyi, the last emperor of China, through flashbacks. In 1950, Puyi is brought back to China from the Soviet Union as a war criminal and sent to a prison camp in Fushun for interrogation and reform. His memories return to 1908, when the three-year-old boy was chosen by Empress Dowager Cixi and became Emperor Xuantong. After the 1911 Revolution, he abdicated in 1912 but was allowed to live in the Forbidden City as a nominal emperor, isolated from the outside world and tutored by the Scottish teacher Reginald Johnston. In 1924 he is expelled from the Forbidden City, moves to Tianjin, and is gradually drawn into Japanese influence. In 1934 he becomes the puppet “emperor” of Manchukuo, controlled by Japan. After Japan’s defeat in 1945, he is captured by Soviet troops and later extradited to China. After years of reform, he is pardoned in 1959 and becomes an ordinary citizen. In the film’s ending, in his later years he buys a ticket to enter the Forbidden City, sits on the throne, and takes out a cricket cage he hid there as a child; an era has long ended. The film portrays an individual caught in the sweep of history, the illusion of power, and the loss of identity.
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As the emperor he mistreated many of the people in his servitude.
The communist party had a rough start but in the end they lifted up the population, and now they are fed, have housing and a great education with job security.
China is one of many countries with no future due to apocalyptically low birth rates. China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Thailand. All these countries will go extinct over the next 200 years
3,5 hours
A very good movie