9/10
What is this hiding in the shadow of the first emperor of China?
11 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
What sacrifices are necessary to unify such a continent, Xiaowen Zhou answers this question in the privacy of the giant machine. How far is it necessary to be master in manipulation? Three beautifully interpreted characters are here to respond to this piece of history, the emperor himself, his favorite daughter and his childhood friend to whom he owes his life, become an exceptional composer. Run away from me I am you, I am running away from you, at this cache, mingles love and freedom to think in front of an emperor so powerful and so subtle, that to escape his drawing seems impossible. Impressive on all fronts, the film tells us the mysteries of power and the human damage it inevitably causes. For the emperor himself, whose strategy is based on the investment of a lifetime, it is nevertheless through the artist that such a drawing takes all its meaning. So despite all the precautions to protect but also enslave by patience are old friends, the necessary games and manipulations causes inevitable dramas in front of the steamroller of the stakes which swallows absolutely everything in its path. Exciting and bewitching, the realization is remarkable and captivating, just like the story that offers us an unforgettable final or all the most contradictory feelings this mixture, remains this universal and invisible love that transcends any symbol.

For each of these three characters whose final remains in the image of the emperor himself, now (* spoiler alert: last witness with the spectator himself, of an inevitable tragedy of a truth that escapes him incessantly: we cannot capture freedom without seeing it die, a metaphor in the image of the empire itself).

This magnificent film is a real forgotten nugget, much more digestible than we can believe at first sight that projects us without detours in an exciting piece of history.
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