strongly not recommended

Sylvan 2022-04-21 09:02:04

The problem that Americans always want to point fingers at others has existed since ancient times. It is a vivid history of aggression. It focuses on the warrior spirit of the invaders, and does not mention their brutality and tyranny. For the ignorance and self-interest of the invaded, the enthusiasm for this long-standing nation is not exaggerated; while the Americans are always heroic and high-end animals, they will always stand in the position of the winner and laugh at the ups and downs. This may just be an anti-war film, but it is impossible to gain a firm foothold on the anti-war stage by reporting other people's wars with one's own melody as a victor. Even if you're telling part of the truth, it's extremely shameful to cover up another type of truth at the same time. Even if I exclude the above, I don't like this movie. There is no resonance, no shock, no emotion. I just think that Bell really looks like Bell when he was a child. That's all, Spielberg shouldn't make this kind of movie, it's boring , not to please.

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  • [first lines]

    Narrator: [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners, protected by the diplomatic security of the International Settlement, continued to live as they had lived since the British came here in the 19th century and built in the image of their own country... built banking houses, hotels, offices, churches and homes that might have been uprooted from Liverpool or Surrey. Now their time was running out. Outside Shanghai the Japanese dug in and waited... for Pearl Harbor.

  • Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now.

    Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?