Letter from Iwo Jima is the battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japan, part of the current situation in Japan during World War II, and the people who were swept up by militaristic madness. The protagonist of the film is the battle of Iwo Jima in the eyes of the historical figure General Kuribayashi Tadashi and an ordinary soldier. The Battle of Iwo Jima was the complete loss of Japan's sea and most air control after the Mariana Battle. Under such circumstances, the defense of Iwo Jima became almost impossible. As a soldier, Tadashi Kuribayashi devoted himself to his duties and never surrendered. , led the soldiers to make a last-ditch effort to guard Iwo Jima for nearly a month. As a general, he personally observed the military situation and discouraged the suicide assault of the Long Live Charge, and waged a war of attrition. The most touching point of this film is that the United States had the upper hand in the later period of the Battle of Iwo Jima. The Japanese soldiers saw that the surrendering compatriots were killed by the Americans and could not surrender. Surrendering was execution. Consciousness to fight to the death, this is the helplessness of war. (The anti-war movie I've seen most impressed me the most is the sinking of the USS Arizona sailors had to be submerged in water in the cabin (Pearl Harbor), or the island battle was forced to retreat (Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
As the German drama (our fathers) said, war can only bring out the worst side of a person, the victory of the war is nothing, the loss of the loss of life, the war is always cruel, (Iwo Jima letter) and a good expression of this a little.
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