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Ryan
@ryanfmason
The Last Emperor Great premise for showing rapid changes in history is showing somebody who history is acting on rather than somebody who is making the history Kind of counterintuitive but somebody making history is changing as things change, they are the instigator. Somebody history is acting on is actually the same person throughout but trying to understand and react to things outside of their control (Vaclav Havel’s greengrocer) The Last Emperor of China is an incredible movie because he is forced to play this part his entire life and ironically doesn’t understand it when he has all the power and only understands it once he doesn’t have any power. He has all the benefits when he doesn’t ask for them, and suffers all the consequences when he doesn’t deserve them. Went to a WW2 museum last weekend and I was so wrapped up in the US, Europe, Japan, etc. And 80% of the way through the tour there is literally a footnote about Manchuria and how the current flag of Taiwan was created. A very strange and tragic life
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