Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

gavin6942 The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over fifty years.Right off the bat, I must say I do not get the high-pitched Asian singing. I say Asian and not Chinese because I know the Hmong people of Laos do the same thing, leading me to believe this is a cross-cultural thing. And not all the time, as is evidenced by the "normal" singing over the closing credits.But that aside (which could probably be resolved by my reading more), this is a strong, semi-epic story of love and song. The costumes are beautiful, and in many ways this seems more like Japanese cinema rather than Chinese, with the elaborate costumes calling to mind samurai stories and other tales.

junyules liu Their love is humble and fierce. A lens is the deepest impression is butterfly garment rehabilitation building successful time to feed his drug sitting beside him, then senior teacher younger brother came in to see him when he shy smile and section of the building of ridicule him JiaoChen to choke him. He must feel very happy, in front of house so his sat next to him, even the chrysanthemum fairy said nothing. Women love to the old and the man to love is different. She is very pure love, true don't contain false naked love, want a birthright and he always followed her and to all people。When the cultural revolution was small four edges out don't her position at chrysanthemum fairy butterfly their makeup Chrysanthemum fairy, is really old, and she can be as beauty live forever in front of process adjustment. Her for so long, finally building Shouting I draw a line with her divorce with her. So she has always been to maintain the backbone. Yes, love can be a woman in my life the only really important things. How much she loved him, she also don't know. As she is such a status woman is not in a position to choose who don't have the right to love, wins is won. Actually I also thought she had won. If what can let him to heart, also is the dress from the back of the red wedding clothes. So I feel or butterfly garment more happiness. He love of so humble so no dignity but he can enjoy his easily Cheng butterfly heart remember is a sword Once we knew maybe a movie is a book album song at a concert Said you want to see I will go to buy and then lend you see film you say well I will go down seriously read and then tell you feel your best I'll wait for you whole looping remember every sentence lyrics say I can come then gloat. But we did not process adjustment so heart. After all, can turn around you don't have yourself, do you want to go to the east I like to do you want to go to the west I accompany you to use do you want to bully me do YuJi you want to break the selling watermelon came up I just far looking at you is like a difficult to cross the river. Final adjustment committed suicide. You should not meet, so then you may not love. The one you should not known well, so then you may not lovesick. The one you should not accompany, so then you may not owe. The one you should not pity, so then you may not recall. The one you should not love, so then you may not abandon. Had better not is opposite, so then you may not meet. The one you should not harm, so then you may not negative. Had better not mutually, so then you may not continue. Had better not linked, so then you may not match. Had better not meet, so then you may not meet. But once meet bosom friend, meet what to see. Monarch was Andrew tactic, not teach hard for acacia.

rjciez After finishing watching "The Last Emperor", I found quite entertaining the way they portrayed events of modern Chinese history throughout the story of somebody's life. Since I know that movie might be a Hollywood-esque portray of those events, I looked for a movie with Chinese actors, that also developed through key events of modern Chinese history (e.g. the warlords, revolution, etc). Netflix suggested me "Farewell my concubine".This movie was definitely not my cup of tea:I found the first hour brutally violent, and hard to watch (the first 45-60 minutes). It might have been because in my opinion, the violence portray seemed to not help the development of the story.The movie felt too long, and probably since I did not like the first hour of the movie due to the fact stated above, the last hour and a half felt a bit boring (something I did not feel in "The last emperor" which was also a loooong movie).Finally. This is my own bias, since I do not like opera, the opera scenes seemed highly repetitive and the high pitch voice was hard to bear.

Robert J. Maxwell I'm beginning to wonder if you can't measure a society's participation in the global economy of what used to be called "the free world" by the quality of its movies. China is still a monolithic and authoritarian structure but it's loosening up. It was only ten or so years ago that a friend who had visited mentioned that there were only ten McDonald's in all of Beijing. Now the city is more sophisticated than the one I live in, which is served by a weekly train of burros from the nearest cavalry fort. "Starbucks" is the name of the Mimbreno Apache who brings me an occasional jack rabbit carcass.But, all seriousness aside, this is a pretty good, and quite subtle and adult, film. It's a longie, so I was unable to catch the last half hour or so, but what I did see should be applauded for its acting, direction, and production design.It squeezes a long period of time, from 1932 to beyond Mao's take over, into the story of two orphan boys at a school that trains performers for Chinese opera. The female parts are played by men and boys, as in Shakespeare's time, and in fact Cheung, who plays the female part, looks pretty appealing in make up. Cheung's friend, Zhang, is masculine and plays the role of the King of Chu in gaudy make up.Chinese opera is a demanding art. As children, the two friends are beaten without mercy -- and I mean BEATEN -- for any mistakes they make. One of them is beaten even when his recitation is perfect, "to remind you how good you were." The two grow up to become famous actors in the opera -- Zhang as the demanding and desolate king, and Cheung as his devoted concubine who kills herself.But then -- cherchez la femme. And who is the femme? The luscious and beautiful Gong Li (or Li Gong, to put her clan name first.) She's a knockout. It's no wonder that she's able to finagle Zhang into rescuing her from the whorehouse -- The House of Blossoms -- and marrying her. But, as new wives will, she's jealous of Zhang's close friendship with Cheung, who by this time has become gay. Disruptions ensue. Politics rears its ugly head. And at that point -- three in the morning -- I had to shut it off and go to bed.I don't know what happens at the end. I hope Cheung gets his head straight and becomes heterosexual again, that Zhang is satisfied with the arrangement, and that Gong Li becomes an eager participant in a polyandrous marriage. Things would be so much easier all around.