Snow Falling on Cedars movie plot
2022-02-03 08:13
Based on David Gatson's best-selling novel Snow Falling on Cedars, it explores the horrific consequences of racial prejudice.
The story took place in Seattle shortly after the end of World War II . Due to the Pearl Harbor incident, the general anti-Asian sentiment in the United States was high, and the government even decided to confiscate the property of the Japanese who settled in the country and sent them to concentration camps for management. Unexpectedly, this move However, a foreign relationship was broken apart, and the sweet first love of the newspaper editor's son Isa ( Ethan Hawke ) and the Japanese woman Hatsue (Kudou Yuki) was forced to come to an abrupt end; When the murder case was reported, it was discovered that the defendant was actually the husband of the first love! After some deliberation, Isa finally found enough evidence to prove the defendant's innocence. However, if the evidence was handed over, there would be no second chance between Isa and Hatzue, which made Isa's heart sink into heaven. people fight
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Extended Reading
Snow Falling on Cedars quotes
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Nels Gudmundsson: It takes a rare thing, a turning point, to free oneself from any obsession. Be it prejudice or hate, or, even love.
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Nels Gudmundsson: Accident rules every corner of the universe... except perhaps the chambers of the human heart.
[NB these are the last words in the novel]