Director: Zhang Yuan
Writers: Zhang Yuan / Wang Xiaobo
Starring: Si Khan / Hu Jun / Ye Jing / Zhao Wei / Liu Yuxiao
Genre: Drama / Same-Sex
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Release date: 1996-11 (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Runtime: 90 min / 94 min (Canada)
又名: Behind the Forbidden City
Introduction: A park in Beijing is a place for gay night meetings, the police station near the park Xiao Shi (Hu Jun) on duty at night, will go to the park to arrest one or two gay people for trial, when they confess their various "activities", he will scold to relieve boredom. One night, when he went to arrest someone again, Alain (Si Khan), who wanted to refuse to return the favor, was handcuffed back to the duty room by him.
During the interrogation, Xiao Shi's words and deeds were not lacking in discrimination and insults against Alain, but Alain did not feel embarrassed that he was gay, but quietly told his past experience, and used the story of death row inmates and executioners to express his love for Xiao Shi, and slowly, Xiao Shi found that he also had a brokeback mountain in his heart. © Douban
Monologue of an Unwieldy Writer
Text/Aunt Togata Kagura
I even watched two movies, "Lan Yu" and "East Palace West Palace".
For love between the same sex, it has long been believed that it is no different from the love between the opposite sex. Therefore, in my opinion, "Lan Yu" is a simple, delicate emotional story that takes place in the cultural background of a specific era.
The feeling of "East Palace west palace" is even deeper, written by Wang Xiaobo.
At first, I questioned the name of the East Palace and the West Palace, what was the meaning?
After watching the movie, several teachers present were also discussing its political significance.
The Forbidden City has a toilet in the East Palace and a toilet in the West Palace, which is the place where comrades have fornicated.
In the film, si khan this guy acting naturally.
In the climactic part, Si Khan put on a big red coat and smeared lipstick, and when the unknown opera was interspersed with it, he remembered the Cheng Butterfly dress of "Farewell to the Overlord", who is also a character who does not know that he is outside the play and is not crazy and does not live.
Compared with Si Khan, he suddenly felt that Zhang Guorong's orchid finger was too much.
East Palace West Palace, in my opinion, the topic of comrades has disappeared a lot.
In fact, comrades, like polygamy, extramarital love and other topics, are temporarily acceptable or unacceptable because of the relationship of the background of the times.
In this film, I pay more attention to the individual Si Khan. He is a writer who is too immersed in his own sensual world, because of the unfair treatment he received in his youth, the desire for "love" is incomparable, and the abuse of men to him is fantasized about as "love".
In the film, Hu Jun repeatedly argues with him: "I will treat you!" "I'm not sick!" I love you! ”
The phrase "I'm not sick!" I love you! "Yes and no.
Subjectively speaking, Si Khan is full of love for this unfair dark world, because he has endured too much pain, he is very clever to transform pain into self-righteous love, perhaps in this way to deceive himself, in pain at the same time will produce seemingly innocent happiness, this faint pleasure of a spark, for Si Khan on the edge of society, can burn in his heart.
Si Khan thinks that I love the world, I bear the pain that the world throws at me, I am slapped on the left side of my face, then I stretch out my right face and give you another slap, Si Khan thinks that this kind of transaction can be exchanged for "love", the truth is that he got more slaps and even punches and kicks.
Si Khan remained steadfast: "I am not sick! I love you! ”
It is impossible to imagine that if Si Khan began to doubt his unwavering words, his whole being would collapse.
And Hu Jun's "I'll treat you!" This sentence is also right and wrong.
Hu Jun has always regarded Si Khan as a madman, unable to understand, and scorned Si Khan's passionate love.
In Hu Jun's view, Si Khan's behavior of being extremely eager for "love" and being willing to be abused is extremely stupid and unworthy.
Helplessly, a group like Si Khan, who has been rejected by society, is not eligible for care.
The door of Si Khan's heart is open, so he is more vulnerable.
Hu Jun's heart is closed, he believes that he is a "normal person", and this self-protection measure saves him from the suffering of Si Khan.
At the end of the film, Hu Jun untied Si Khan's clothes and fled, he kissed Si Khan and beat Si Khan.
Can a dispute between two people be regarded as a dispute between two voices in a person's heart?
"I'll heal you!" Don't be silly doing things that aren't worth it! ”
This film may be a projection of Wang Xiaobo's own psychological portrayal.
There's always a group of people, crazy, fiery, real.
Is it appropriate for a person to live in the world, too real?
Can this reality be said to be a manifestation of unwillingness to mature?
Is it right to be self-righteous and unwilling to make changes?
The ending credits "Bus" lit up
Zhang Yuan is a well-known independent film director Chinese mainland. In 1985, he was admitted to the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and after graduating in 1989, he did not work in a film studio. In 1990, he independently completed the film "Mama" with self-financing, which became the first work of the graduates of the film school, and the film was banned as soon as it was completed.
His second film, Beijing Bastards, which he directed, was also an independently produced film, which was also banned and he was banned from working in film.
In 2003, he directed "Green Tea". In 2005, he directed "Looks Beautiful". Zhang Yuan's work "Coming Home for the New Year" won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival; "Looks Beautiful" won the "Outstanding Film Art Innovation Award" at the Berlin International Film Festival; "Beijing Bastard" won the "Jury Prize" at the Singapore International Film Festival; "East Palace West Palace" was selected for the "One Gaze" section of the Cannes Film Festival in France in 1997, and "Best Director" at the Argentine International Film Festival;
Judge of the 47th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.
Si Khan's only starring film (East Palace West Palace), originally not performed by him, he was just the makeup artist of the crew, and then the actor had an accident, because he was a homosexual himself, so he temporarily changed him, he finished this film, and went to Switzerland with his lover to settle down. It is rumored that he taught in CAFA before going abroad.