As a short review wrote, I felt that the story was so long and boring during the movie. I didn't cry when I saw Takeshi Kitano's smile at the end, but the screen faded, and the music of Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence faded, thirty seconds later. I also don't know where I cried because of which character, which scene, which line, which story. My pity and sympathy overflowed but disappeared.
Lawrence told Yonoi, "The thing that impressed me most about Japan was the snow, and the world covered in silver after it snowed." I was thinking, it also snows in the UK, why is the snow in Japan so impressive to him.
Later, when Lawrence was imprisoned, he said about the analysis of Japanese collectives and individuals, and I realized that he was surprised and saddened by the solemnity of the snow in Japan, and saddened by the various colors buried under the snow.
In a way, this film is a gay film, but I prefer to think that it is more dedicated to human nature, to analyze war, and to talk about liberation and redemption.
Some people say that Nagisa Oshima's film is simply a disaster for the audience, and some people evaluate the film in terms of screen scheduling, lighting, storytelling, and actors' acting skills. It does have a lot of deficiencies, too many aesthetic and detail flaws as a movie. But that doesn't prevent it from being a good movie, so much so that I can't help but defend it. The rough graphics and editing make the war more real, and the contrast between Ryuichi Sakamoto's delicate soundtrack and the other roughness is as good as The film's germination of human conscience and the chasm of brutal war, and the poor acting skills of the leading actors made me see their helplessness in the face of the conflict between collective and individual, war and human nature.
Maybe it's because I'm so used to the now well-made commercial, metaphor-laden feature films that I feel the visual dryness and desire for passive indoctrination when confronted with such stark narratives. This makes me repent.
From the 30 seconds from no waves to tears, I believe that I have completed an atonement and completed a transformation that should have come earlier.
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