A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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Rated this movie with 5 stars because of the sheer magnanimity of its production (and because I love the Forbidden City and Chinese history), but if there is one flaw that still frustrates me until today, that would be the use of English as its language. If the original audio was in Mandarin then, it would be a perfect movie, in the same vein as 12 Angry Men and The Return of the King.
There's a scene where they reveal a book and the title is just, "Twilight," and I deadass thought that it was the Vampire teen romance novel released in the 2000s, in a film set throughout the early to mid 1900s. Regardless, good movie.