live with determination

Emmanuelle 2022-04-22 07:01:24

At first, I didn't pay much attention to the plot of the movie, just came to watch it because someone recommended it. Later, I was slowly moved by everything in the movie.

If life is a recurring adventure, it can't be as vigorous as Jamie, at least as persistent as he is. Sometimes, even obsession.

Watching the whole movie, it feels good. At least it did not exaggerate the tragic and cruelty of the war, but it also left a deep impression on the war once again.

For Jamie, I really have to say a few more words.

His obsession with airplanes was his lifelong dream of flying. Jamie, who has to take a model airplane with him wherever he goes, really makes people feel in awe of his dream.

Living alone in an empty house, eating up the rest of the food at home, riding a bicycle in the empty house and not forgetting the age of the car, walking into the nearly dry swimming pool to watch his father knocked down again and again. Golf and goblet, he can live here alone, just because of what his mother said.

The scene when I saw the plane in the concentration camp is the most impressive scene for me. The sky was full of sparks, and he stood in front of it, touching it gently and carefully, then turned and saluted the soldier. It is a person's most sincere response to his dream.

And that sentence has to make people feel distressed: I don't remember what my parents looked like. He really doesn't remember. At the end of the movie, I don't know if it's cowardly or something. It's really sad to stand upright in the crowd like that.

The lines of the movie are not too classic, but they inadvertently remember a lot.

He raised his hands more than once and said: I surrender!

Standing on the roof and crying to the doctor, he said: I don't remember what my parents looked like.

Standing on the roof to the flying planes shouted: P51, Cadillac in the air.

I have to say that he is great. For the imprint of his own growth, he writes the extraordinary in the ordinary with his obsession.

In any case, I like his way of doing things, using his own efforts and strength in exchange for everything.

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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?