The Last Emperor was the next movie that I chose two watch. I can remember seeing the movie box on the shelf in the same video store that I still go to since I was a young boy, but for some reason I had never checked it out to view. That was a big mistake. This movie was one of the best movies I have ever seen, a little bit depressing but very good. It was kind of hard to follow the plot, there always seemed like a different situation was taking place. That is probably the reason why it captured my attention through the whole film. It really makes you feel sorry for the emperer. This movie was better than Seven Years in Tibet. Although in a way I am glad that I had not seen The Last Emporer when I was a young boy, because I would not have gotten the full effect or understanding out of it.
             As a three year old boy the emporer is taken from his mother on his way to the forbidden city where he is to be throned. As he enters the empresses room she is on her death bed. She explains her situation to the boy, but he really has not a clue what is happening in his life at this point. She goes on to say that men are not let out after dark in the forbidden city. This seemed strange to me, they really did not elaborate much on this in the movie. She says only the emporer is allowed out after dark but he is dead. Then she goes on to tell him the good news and the next minute she goes on to join her husband in the after life. For some reason they put a black ball in her mouth which they did not explain, I found that interesting. No one is to look the new emporer in the eyes, nor are they able to turn their back on him. Kind of the same rules as in Seven Years in Tibet. It seems as though the young boy is never left unattended. This must be very annoying to him. I!
             t seems at first he misses his mother as she comes to visit him time to time.
             As the emporer grows up he finds out that China has become a republic, except the...