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In 1993, when I was only a pupil, my grandfather took me to the cinema to see this great movie for the first time. At that time, I was too young to understand this movie and only surprised by the beautiful scene. Twenty years passed and I see this movie again because of my friend's recommendation. This time, I carefully follow the movie plot in about 2 hours and never feel any boring. This film is as perfect as an artistic works in every aspects such as photography, plot, acting skills and spiritual core. I think the most attractive element for me is the spiritual core. Through the story of two Beijing Opera stars, the movie shows an scroll of the Chinese social change among more than 50 years. It also focus on the ordinary people's hardship and suffering. Although the love is the topical subject for this movie as its name shows. But I think the director want to express more than love. It tells much more about the humanity under the extreme conditions. In one word, a person cannot say he is familiar with Chinese film if he hasn't seen this "farewell my concubine".

I chose this movie to see only because I want to find some fun to kill time in a bored afternoon. At first, I really did laugh a lot. Then I couldn't help crying for many times while watching the rest of the movie. Every characters were funny. But I could not laugh at them. Instead, I felt deep sympathy about them. In Chinese, "wu ming zhi bei" means a person lives in the bottom of the society. Such a person isn't worthy a penny for his name. In this movie, the security guard, the two thieves, and the lady on the wheelchair, they were all small persons. But they still fought and struggled against the destiny. In addition, the episode song sang by the guitar player was very very fair-sounding. I chose this song as my cellphone's bell for a long time.

The legend of the white snake is a family-know fairly tale among the Chinese people. I have already seen many editions about the love story between lady White snake and the Dr. Xu. But there are only few words describing why Lady W fall in love with her boy friend. In this movie, the screen writer successfully combined the legend of white snake and another famous classic novel - the story of snake catchers. I think it is a great idea. in addition, the film scenes are fantastic and the characters are beautiful. 9/10 is a reasonable grade for it.