Beautifully Triumphant

Rating: 10/10 (17 November 2005)

Stellar is the only word to use for this perfection of film. Nothing I have ever seen compares. You follow the life of one man, literally from birth to death, and in that time you see glory, sadness, vulnerability, love, anger, and all of the other emotions that cover the spectrum of human emotion. The direction, the script, the acting, it is all flawless, as though you were really watching the events of this man unfold in real life, and by the end, you will have a new perspective on the concept of what a human life can mean. Not many films have that power. There is nothing more passionate in film that to watch the young emperor run after his mother. There is nothing more triumphant that to see him set out to right the wrongs of his empire. And there is nothing more sad than to see him aged and powerless, returning the ruins of a place which had once been his entire world.