First of all, the soundtrack must be praised. It's really good. It fits the feeling of forbidden love and adds a lot of color to the whole film.
Although this is a gay movie, what moved me the most was not the relationship between Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bob's Japanese officers and captives (although I watched the movie for this at first) but Kitano The former sergeant played by Wu is violent and ruthless at the beginning, killing prisoners at will, but he is also an ordinary person who has been devastated by the war. Afterwards, when his superiors were held accountable, he took the initiative to take the blame. He would happily say MerryChristmas to the prisoners of war, and he would still laugh and shout MerryChristmas to the British who was once a prisoner of war and now turned into an officer when he was about to die. That was the last time he said that. They could have been friends, but in the end they could only fight against each other, and all of this was caused by war.
The differences between Eastern and Western cultures are also the clues that run through the whole film. In the eyes of the Japanese, the supreme cutting of the abdomen, in the eyes of the British soldiers, is just a cowardly act. It seems that it is incomprehensible, so the conflict between the prisoners of war and the Japanese soldiers will continue throughout the film.
The relationship between Sakamoto Ryuichi and David Bob is also very touching. In the case of disparity in their identities and completely different concepts, and same-sex love was completely taboo at that time, the officer played by Sakamoto Ryuichi still fell in love with the British prisoner of war. The two most touching scenes are the main theme of forbidden color plus David Bob coming out of the crowd with a shocking kiss to Sakamoto Ryuichi and Sakamoto Ryuichi cutting off a strand of hair before David Bob died. heartstrings
Although the title has the word battlefield, there is no war scene in the whole film. Instead, there is a feeling of joy and sorrow in the Christmas songs of British soldiers. In the war, there is no truth, and there is no right or wrong, but there will still be the most sincere feelings between people. When the prisoner of war played by David Bob stands up and sacrifices himself to save another British soldier, that is in the war. The best moment, it's not just his salvation of another person, but his salvation of himself
There's so much more to say about this film, but in a nutshell, it's just amazing!
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