From an ideological point of view, it is indeed cultural hegemonism, and there is nothing to argue about.
Film creation is the trouble here. With the help of historical background, we must do a good job of balancing all parties, but sometimes the original meaning is not so much concern.
The Empire of the Sun is anti-war and certain. It's just that it's not the war of aggression against China in our perspective, but the generalized war that is opposed to peace.
The little boy's dream is to fly to the blue sky, and what the director wants to show is the confrontation between the cruelty of war and the beauty of dreams.
The director is far from that war, he doesn't care what that war means to China at all. It's a bit like the birth of a country by Griffith. In fact, Griffith was a humanitarian himself, but his dad worked for the South. He listened to a lot of racist remarks, so he put him in the pre-20s. The culmination of film form is placed in such a story background. Later, I was anxious to take part in the same party and attack the different as my own voice, which means that I don’t care about white people or people of color at all, and I have no interest in racism at all.
Spielberg's filming of the Empire of the Sun is also the same. It is not a disaster for his country. He has no personal experience. He has no interest in learning more about it. On the contrary, the war sinner in our eyes, the Japanese side, as the opposite of the United States, as a mutual relationship with the United States. The maniac who dropped the atomic bomb has a more direct relationship with him. So, he focused on white people and Japan. There are casual assumptions about China.
His previous love for Hiroshima was actually depressing. The French took the initiative to explore the destruction of Japanese civilians, but they did not see any of these great directors to explore the real victims of the East in World War II. But can it be said that Hiroshima Love is not deeply anti-war? Why don't you come and pay attention to the damage we have suffered, maybe because it was too cruel, maybe because we didn't have Kurosawa Akira who could export culture to the outside world through movies.
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