Adieu ma concubine

A story about China recent history . It is also a gay one . Unfortunately Chinese Government will not allow any anti-government /sex/violence content on public . To any not chinese foreigner , it will be more easier to understand 20-sentry black history of China .

The beauty of this movie is objective and absolute. Farewell my concubine is an example of how much a movie opera can be still close to the spirit of classical tragedy. The hidden tissue of art and life covering the characters reveals at the end the obscene and terrible relation between destiny and our choices. The whole experience of all the characters is intimately joined to the ruinous becoming of history and every single event contributes to give to the recurrent scenes a new and different meaning. So the representation is really complete holding into a more tight catch life and history, theatre and truth.

Lately, I've been watching a great number of foreign films and I must say something. Hollywood...you suck. This is a MASTERPIECE. Unbelievable acting, cinematography, costumes, plot, continuity, the whole thing start to finish. Sure, it has subtitles, but 2 minutes into it, and I didn't even realize I was reading them as I was so engrossed with the movie it was effortless to me. So many people already have given the "Reader's Digest" version of this movie, but honestly, and I am a real hard to please kind of movie person, if you haven't seen this movie, do it. If you are like me, you'll probably watch it again right after you finished it the first time. I did!

Two people who stick to love, stick to the belief, one to die to protect their innocence, one to die to restore the original themselves, only the once all-powerful jianghu "bully" stood there. One person in the center of the stage. So lonely.

This is a good epic film. But very sadistic. It's that jap obsession with pain, morbidity, and discipline. It takes a big stomach and tolerance from a European to see this. If you are nto bored at the beginning you might stay with it. But it's a testament to this sad bigoted culture that is the Japanese one. These guys wanted to conquer the world with Hitler, they were the worst savages in that war, worst than the German by far. And part of their flock suffered too, especially the women they amassed in whorehouses, and the people they did live experiments on... I won't go into this...google it. So this is an epic film with a lot qualities, but it has that weight on it, a whale's weight of that sadistic hara-kiri culture of Japan, and it's really hard to watch for this reason.

I found the film to be very interesting and informative. I didn't know the extent of what went on during regime changes in China. I also found it interesting to learn about the Peking Opera. I was a little disappointed in some of the scenes though. I wasn't certain in a few sections of the film if someone had died or not. The first incident was with the boy that ran off, the second was with the wife. I wish they would have shown more in those scenes to make things clearer. All in all, I find it to be a good film and worth the time to watch it.

The film truly and profoundly reflects the miserable people in the historical period from the eve of the Anti Japanese War to the cultural revolution. It permeates every detail, including the child who can't stand being beaten by the troupe. In the cultural revolution, the six relatives did not recognize each other, and the distortion of personality was shown to the extreme. Of course, the best thing is Zhang Guorong's performance, so sad and poor Cheng Dieyi is heartbreaking. Cheng Dieyi said that no madness, no survival, no distinction between human and drama, the reality of Zhang Guorong is the same.