Fridge / The Last Emperor

Fridge Brilliance:

For the film's Historical Hero Upgrade of Pu-yi. The film was based on Pu-yi's memoir; of course he'll describe himself as far more heroic than he was in real life.

Fridge Horror:

• In the Director's Cut, we see a scene where a young peasant girl is forced to abandon her own infant in order to become Pu Yi's wet nurse. Who then is feeding her child? The viewers don't see any money pass into her family's hands so we don't know if they're being taken care of or not. Sure hope her infant doesn't starve to death... ^note  In real life Pu-yi eventually met the wet nurse's infant as an adult, realizing the great personal sacrifice the woman he cared so much for did for him. So at the very least, that baby was historically ok.
  • Historically, a lot of wet-nurses were women whose babies already died in infancy (unfortunately very common—infant mortality has been terrible up to a few generations ago, and still is in less-developed countries), or they nursed both children since milk-kinship has been a thing for quite a while. And for the movie's case if people don't find out the wet-nurse's baby ended up fine in real life, it wouldn't be unusual for the imperial household to flat-out let the other baby die, just because they're not important.