Q:Build a movie plot around this: What year does the film flash-forward to? 1945
A:
Arrival.A train pulls into a station in North China.It's 1950.Soldiers are everywhere.The train is a prisoner transport and all who depart from it are war criminals.The prisoners are hustled into the station building to wait.After a short while, four prisoners suddenly get up, congregate across the room, and worshipfully prostrate themselves before a well dressed, bespectacled man (John Lone).The venerated man looks around uncomfortably.Guards lead the four worshipers away.The man retreats to a bathroom and locks the door behind him.After filling a sink with hot water he slits his wrists and plunges them into the water.A short time later the prison governor (Ruocheng Ying) goes to the bathroom door.Finding it locked the governor pounds on the door, repeatedly shouting, "Open the door!"Inside the bathroom, the venerated man, prisoner, war criminal, watches his blood cloud the water in the sink.The man's name is Pu Yi.He is the last emperor of China.The Emperor of China, 1908.The sound of the governor's pounding and shouting transports Pu Yi's thoughts to a time, 42 years earlier, when mounted soldiers similarly demanded entry to his family's estate.By command of the Empress Dowager Cixi, three year-old Pu Yi (Richard Vuu) has been ordered to the Forbidden City, the seat of power and abode of Chinese emperors.As the boy sobs, Pu Yi's mother (Dong Liang) hands him over to his nurse, Ar Mo (Jade Go), saying, "My son is your son."When the procession arrives in the Forbidden City, Pu Yi and his father (Basil Pao) are given audience before the dying Empress Dowager.Her last official act is to proclaim the boy to be the successor of the previous emperor, who has died that very day."Little Pu Yi. I have decided that you will be the new Lord of Ten Thousand Years. You will be the Son of Heaven."With those words, the Empress Dowager dies.Pu Yi turns to his father and asks if they are going home.Without reply, his father prostrates himself before his son.Shortly, Pu Yi is seated on the imperial...