they are brave

Vallie 2022-04-22 07:01:24

I have to say that this movie can cause people to feel bad.
I wanted to give up a few times in the middle, but I insisted on watching it, so the uncomfortable feeling continued to the end.
World War II in the eyes of a British boy born in Shanghai. Dirty Dirty Chinese, chaotic and crowded Shanghai, and long life in concentration camps, although interspersed with the interest and friendship of little boys, they still look extremely boring.
One sentence left in my memory, Jamie's opinion on the Japanese soldiers: "They are very Brave, aren't you?"

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Empire of the Sun quotes

  • [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?