Farewell My Concubine Film Review

The movie "Farewell My Concubine" directed by Kaige Chen, seems to be two films at once: The first one is an epic spanning a half century of modern Chinese history, and at the same time it is a melodrama about life backstage at renowned Peking Opera. The beginning of the film was complicated and scary and I thought that cannot resist watching until the end, because it was heart-breaking. However, I watched until the end and learned a lot of useful steps of life. Let me tell my opinion about some of the most unforgettable and heart-breaking scenes from the movie.
The story started presenting 1920s China, where a woman brought his child to the opera training school and begged the master to take him as student. Master Guan refused her because the boy had a superfluous finger, which was not acceptable for a performer. The women cut off the boy’s extra thumb and took him to Guan. For me it was the worst thing that the woman could do with his child. Watching the part where the child was crying was really cruel and heart-breaking. However, after this horrible step Guan made the poor boy a student in the opera school and named him Douzi.
Douzi got acquainted

I believe that Shitou’s protections every time made Douzi think that he was protected as a female by the male Shitou. In the half of the movie I changed my opinion about Shitou, because his behavior was having a bad influence on Douzi, hence he did not have the opportunity to protect himself and behave like a man, because he knew that Shitou was going to do it instead of him. For example, one day Shitou joked that if one day he becomes the King of the whole world, he would make Dieyi his queen, just like the story of Farewell, My Concubine. Douzi, took that seriously and believed that he could not live without Shitou