My Favourite Five Movies.

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1 The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci

This movie tells the story of Pu Yi the last emperor of China. The locations and the costumes used in this film are stunning. It is notable that it was filmed completely on location in China, and claims the honour of being the first movie to contain scenes shot inside the Forbidden City. While John Lone is appealing as the Emperor the role of his mentor is done by Peter O’Toole with ease. Complementing its visual magnificence is the sharply and cleverly written screenplay which unfolds a lovely story, sad, emotional, and in some way, surprisingly heartening. This film really demands more than one viewing.

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2 My Left Foot

Jim Sheridan

The most important facet about this movie is the brilliant performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, who is one of the best actors of our time. It is a captivating, unsentimental bio-drama about Christy Brown, the man who was born with cerebral palsy in a poor, working class family in Dublin. He has spent most of his life ostracized because of this condition. Others simply laugh at him when he tries to tell them something. The light in the gloominess for him is his left foot which is the only body part over ...

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