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The Journey Inward
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
May 3, 2006
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I had not seen this movie in perhaps 15 years. I own it as I had remembered its sweeping cinematography. In rewatching, the beauty of this film is the delicate imagery of the film. How Pu-Yi is captive as a child inside the gates of the Forbidden City always longing to see what is on the other side of the wall and then to see him many years later as a puppet for the Japanize just prior to WWII in Manchuria. He is still the prisoner, now as a man. Then only to return in his golden years and meet the child who is guardian of the Eternal City. This film - in all of its magnificent cinematography - is about the private struggle of a special man who was born into a time that simply vanishes before his eyes. John Lone captures this hauntingly in his descent into hell and ultimately in his redemption in accepting the plight of his own life. |
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