Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress
there's only one word to describe the musical:godly!!!
i wanna watch it again!!!but no money!!!(hint hint:anyone wanna sponsor me?)
and kit chan is...sigh...i cant think of any words that can describe her...her voice is heavenly...DAMN GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
the hifi set in my room is playing the ost again and again and again and...you get my point.haha.
I'M SUFFERING FROM FORBIDDEN CITY WITHDRAWAL SYMPTONS!!!!
anyway, there was this article in LIFE! that criticised the plot for not reflecting the truth of history.hmm.i mean, hello! first of all, this is but a musical. secondly, this story was based on the records of the painter who did a portrait for the empress, so don't criticise the producers. and also, like he said, it's history. and this is history dating back to over a hundred years, who knows what in the history records are true and what isn't? and he took hitler as a comparison. saying what if one day someone portrays him in a position of a victim of his environment and people starts to tae pity for him.
i mean like--huh? hitler's time wasn't tt far away for us to know his true story.there is sufficient and proper records of his story. and seriously, i think that even baddies in real life aren't born baddies. they turn baddies under the environment they grow in.
i think maybe he should try looking from different perspectives and not just from whatever history book he has read.
anyway, i really wanna watch the musical again!!!
from the musical:
"they've painted my face
they've chosen my past
they've nurtured my pride
in the role that they cast
but inside there's a place
a place that nobody knows
this is my only chance; love, open my heart
years of broken dreams, all in the past
this is my only chance; love, make me a part
of someone who shows me
he loves me and knows me at last"
"like children need their mothers
like rivers need a sea
like prisons need a key
like winter nights need fire
like temples need a shrine
like lovers need desire
like prophets need a sign
i need him
can't he see? i need him
to be mine"
"falling in love is just that
falling
out of control
of your heart and soul
falling in love is just that
falling
that's how it feels
falling head over heels
why love when love hurst?
why love when love ends?
i know how it feels
when it turns and pretends
it ends with the pain
and making amends
why love when there's peace
in the making of friends?"
"too late for me to say that i was wrong
perhaps the weak believe that they are strong
i thought that if i tried i'd find a way to earn their trust
yet all i've known and loved has turned to dust
it seems there was no way i could belong
the fire that burns within your heart
the pain that tears your life apart
the rain that falls from broken skies
the love i lost beneath the lies
and must i face the truth alone?
is this the end of all i've known?
the years i gave, the tears i cried
why dream of love, when love has died?"
