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It is the end of the year.
And as the holidays approach,
we are launching the first session of our Drum Tower Film Club.
And for some reason, I was allowed to pick the first one.
So I chose an absolute classic.
Farewell, My Concubine by Chen Kaige.
Ah, Farewell, My Concubine, also known as Ba Wang Bie Ji.
It is a classic movie, but I actually hadn't seen it in full.
So thank you, David, for giving me an excuse to watch it.
I'm glad.
So look, you don't win any prizes for originality for suggesting Farewell, Concubine.
It is an extremely famous film, but it really is also a must-see film.
And the plot follows two young boys who are training to become Beijing opera performers starting all the way back in 1924,
that chaotic era just after the fall of the last imperial dynasty.
The movie is a tale of friendship and unrequited love that spans 50 years.
It takes viewers all the way through from the 1920s to the 1960s,