Film evaluation:
Farewell My Concubine, as a flag-level work in China film industry, is a film with world-class honor, with both epic pattern and cultural connotation. Under the profound artistic background of Beijing opera, it shows the versatility and richness of people in the face of role dislocation and disaster with great tension. The power of human nature and the actors contained in it can be called a wonderful performance to conquer many movie audiences around the world.
The film describes the Peking Opera art with the deepest cultural accumulation in China and the life of Peking Opera artists, and subtly shows the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, people's living conditions and human nature.
Farewell My Concubine passionately tells a story that lasted for half a century. The film not only has a profound sense of history, but also has a delicate male friendship and an epic pattern. Show the joys and sorrows of little people with the historical development of China for half a century.
The change of times is closely related to the turning point of characters' fate, sociality is closely related to nationality, and faith is closely related to reality. Chen Kaige said he would shoot a story of infatuation and betrayal, so he shot such a story of a real concubine and a fake overlord. The dislocation of human nature and the heavy blow of disaster have brought many aspects and rich drama to the film.
Coupled with Leslie Cheung's almost perfect interpretation of Cheng Dieyi, it can be said that Farewell My Concubine is a peak in the film history of China in the past 100 years, both in film and performance.