Today I want to tell you a sad story ~ Eh Eh, don’t change the channel! I’m talking about you! Keep your thumb away from the return key plssssssss:)

A handsome, exotic, beautifully acted film, full of the kind of humanism that festival juries like to commend.

Vincent Canby was so impressed with “Farewell my concubine” in the The New York Times.

In 1993, it won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, Palme d’Or, the first Chinese film to do so, and is considered the most incredible film by Chen Kaige.

Farewell My Concubine is a poignant story of drama, dreams, art and life.

The beauty of the main character Cheng Dieyi is directly reflected in his artistic performance, which is exquisite and unsurpassed.

According to Yuan Si-ye he is both male and female.

It was the beauty of his temperament: All the sensitivity, tenderness, intelligence, delicacy, vulnerability, even a little jealousy and selfishness born of love, mixed with male fortitude, perseverance, silence, introverted, and tolerance.

On a deeper level, the beauty of Cheng Dieyi is reflected in his devotion to his belief and dream, and his courage to practice.

The film succeeds in shaping the beauty of Cheng Dieyi, unleashing the immense power he possesses, and then destroying the life that carries it.

Hegel’s theory says that when a limited form of external sensibility can not sustain a strong inner spirit, it is bound to distort or even destroy.

The powerful tragic effect of the film Farewell My Concubine is mainly due to the suffering, frustrations and final destruction of the life of the character.

In that era of lack of faith, people were like wandering wanderers who can not find their homes. A lack of faith in life is bound to be lead to insecurity and fear.

• “What you promise me is a lifetime! Missing a year, a month, a day, an hour, is not a lifetime!”

If he was not born in such chaotic times, perhaps he could have found a place for this infatuation, perhaps he could have remained pure until his death, perhaps he could have sung for a lifetime.

Which character or scene do you like best in this movie? Have you seen any other work of Chen Kaige?

PS: Maybe you would like to hear the podcast of Farewell My Concubine.