, I have to admit, this movie has a good name! Although there is no directness of the title of "Nanjing Massacre", the repetition of a city's noun can show its tragic more ----- more than 70 years later, the people outside the city, and the future of the city How would people describe this place, the people buried under this city still have this memory? Pain! heroic! There are other. . . . . .
I absolutely believe that there is no other word in this world that can be more heart-wrenching than the repetition of "Nanjing". In addition to the need to read rhythm and rhythm, it expresses a kind of emphasis, which highlights a deep and grand emotion for one's own city. Other works that use repeated techniques include Wang Feng's "Beijing Beijing" and Zheng Jun's "Chang'an Chang'an". Here, I have absolutely no intention to compare several cities, or to doubt the loyalty and sincerity of others to their own city feelings. But, you see, in the context of 1937, when an exclamation mark was added to the term Nanjing, her sense of crisis and emergency immediately became apparent!
Indeed, there is no more meaningful name than "Nanjing". Especially when she was put together with that year, without saying a word, it seemed to make people feel real sadness and pain.
I love you, Nanjing! Although not from Nanjing, I love you with the same feeling. I love you and my ancestors' shared feelings of life and death in that war, and the deep dependence of the people there on you.
I wrote an article "Our Urban Fetish" before, roughly saying that women usually like a city because they fall in love with a man. After watching the film, I suddenly felt superficial because I only knew the love of you and me. At the juncture of life and death, nothing can withstand a great love of national loyalty, and the city's "never betray" feeling for the people is even more moving. At that time, a city with whom you live and die may be more important than a person with whom you live and die.
About the movie
"Nanjing! Nanjing! "Before the release, Wang Shuo first read the rough cut and said to Lu Chuan: "I especially like the second half, I especially love this ending, like the European films I like, the feelings, opinions and your shooting style are all relaxed, Especially good... The first half, to be honest, although the filming is good, I can't stand it, because this is the public memory of the Chinese people, you haven't found a new perspective." Wang Shuo also said that cutting half of the front is the world business card? !
Let's not talk about whether this movie can become a Chinese business card or a world business card in the end? Just this sentence, someone said to Lu Chuan, this is the film that directors of your generation should make. Responsibility or obligation, when Lu Chuan stepped up to meet him, he was probably the first director in the sixth generation to make a blockbuster with 100 million yuan. I can't say what this must mean for the development of the sixth generation, but for the post-80s and post-90s audiences who are about to become the backbone of the society, this is definitely a movie that needs to be watched! I'm talking about special needs. In fact, the audience of this movie is not divided into any age, as long as Chinese people should go to the theater to support it. Whether he is the world or the universe business card? !
The content of the film can be roughly divided into two parts: the stubborn resistance of Lu Jianxiong and other defenders played by Lou Ye, and the rape, humiliation and looting of the Japanese army in Nanjing City. In the theater, I even heard the tender voice of an ignorant child: Mom, what is rape? ! As you can imagine, the child will spend most of the second half of the film blindfolded.
As for the controversial topic—the Japanese officer’s perspective was added to the film, I personally speculate that the director has the following considerations: First, Lu Chuan wanted to use the eyes of the invaders to witness the whole process for us, because compared with the suffering in Nanjing city people, and only they live longer? ! The second is to express the war's distortion of human nature. We can't help denying that maybe they are also victims, but these can't change the fact that they are aggressors! Maybe sometimes, we are indeed not "tolerant" enough, but how do you let kind people treat this brutal history with a calm mind? Looking at it from another angle, people's excitement after watching the movie is inseparable from the success of Lu Chuan's work to reproduce that period of history, so this work is considered a success?
As for the other
issue or the one accusing the director of glorifying the invading army, and the audience who would rather be deeply sympathetic and hateful than ambiguous and calm?
Suddenly I thought of the incident of the Japanese host of a well-known show not long ago. The reason is a joke that the Japanese host wanted to liven up the atmosphere: those who obey me live, those who oppose me forget. The military singer who was a guest at that time said, "You remind me of your Japanese!" Suddenly, the atmosphere at the scene was very embarrassing. After that, the singer performed the red song he created with enthusiasm at the scene, and the scene even choked. Most of the audience born in the 1980s applauded vigorously, and the applause lasted for nearly 1 minute.
In fact, who doesn't know that this is just an entertainment show, but would you accuse those post-80s audiences of lack of entertainment spirit? It has to be said that we have too deep and complicated entanglements with this country with a strip of water, so that we sometimes lack rational thinking and judgment.
Calm down and think, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "The significance is that Lu Chuan has set up a new perspective for us. However, if the film can show more of how a person becomes a beast under the influence of war and the interaction of collective crime, it may be more successful.
actually. The biggest embarrassment for Lu Chuan is that, after the film is finished, picky people will say that this is the power of the subject matter rather than the power of the work. If the filming is not good, people will be accused of wasting their money to speak for the Japanese.
Look, it's really hard to be a responsible and thoughtful new generation director.
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