It's a sad movie. Bowie and the professor are really handsome, and their story is full of contradictions. Apart from that, the Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence at the end is even more moving, and time changes everything. This time, I bless you again, but tomorrow we will be forever apart, a friendship as an individual, and a misfortune as a collective. There is nothing left beyond this. 5.10 I thought about this film for a day and felt very contradictory. The education I received from a young age taught me that the crimes of Japanese military imperialism are unforgivable, that they are ruthless and very abhorrent. But I saw characters like Yonoi and Sergeant Yuan in this movie, and I didn't even know whether to love or hate for a moment. Just like the Athenian citizens are attached to the city-state, hundreds of Japanese have also become attached to militarism, but even if they are different, the former sergeant will not die. The evil deeds are hateful, but the so-called spiritual fascination in the hearts of these Japanese people is pathetic.
I've been in a quandary all day, and I've developed compassion for a group I'm supposed to hate. But now that I think about it, if it is not at the national and collective level, Yonoi wants to invite them to their hometown, and Lawrence said that he wants to see them as independent individuals. Perhaps this is also their contradiction. Humans are as conflicted as ever when we have self-doubt because our individual emotions don’t fit the collective. But what can break this contradiction? Is there really an ending where everyone can live, Yoyoi invited them back to their hometown, and the war didn't bring so much pain.
In a day of thinking I understood why the professor's music was getting closer and closer to nature, why he was miserable in the world, why he took the trouble to play every "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"
We hate war but we cannot ignore that war is a two-party or even multi-party activity. In history class, when the teacher talked about Japan's war of aggression, I suddenly became less indignant. I thought I should learn to understand this contradiction, rather than keep getting caught up in it.
In this story about friendship and love, after all, it has left its own unique color in the trajectory of history. This is probably a story about redemption.
Maybe it's because human emotions are so easy to overflow that I write so many strange words. In fact, in summary, this movie made me see the other side of war and brought me a new way of thinking.
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