After watching "Nanjing! Nanjing! , I sat in the theater and stayed for ten minutes until the end of the credits. Except for the sanitation aunt, everyone in the theater was gone.
When I was going down the stairs, I heard people from the same movie hall laughing and chatting, saying that Liu Ye's role was really small, and Fan Wei's crying was really ugly. The scariest thing was to hear a girl say, "Look at the end." , the Chinese still have the last laugh. (This is the ending I want to talk about later, the ending that I can't accept at all.)
I stared at them in a daze, I don't know what words to use to describe my mood at that time, shivering. I wasn't moved from start to finish, and I didn't quite understand why the group of girls around me could cry so hard while watching those black and white scenes while eating potato chips and popcorn. What are they crying for?
In this film, apart from the prostitute played by Jiang Yiyan who gave me a little shock, I can't find another character that can make me feel a little moved and deeply portrayed. Before I entered the theater, I knew clearly that I didn't come here to be moved. The Nanjing Massacre does not need to be moved. This part of China's history is a shame. The Chinese people are completely weak in this history, and I can't blame them for not being moved. Defiance, numbness, even servility.
I don't understand what Lu Chuan wanted to express in the 2-hour movie.
If he wants to express this history realistically, just as he spends a lot of energy shooting scenes of executions and rapes that he wants to shock, then his subjective point of view from a Japanese is full of contradictions. The film finally established Kadokawa's death in the consciousness of self-awakening, and this consciousness was awakened by the sacrifice of the Japanese themselves, which itself is extremely inconsistent with Japanese culture. It can be said that Kadokawa is a Japanese performer but a Chinese. Mind-possessed monster. Lu Chuan obviously wanted to use the eyes of a Japanese to watch himself on the massacre, but this so-called calmness was of little use.
Take a closer look at what Kadokawa saw.
1. He participated in the massacre of Chinese military prisoners whose opponents were powerless. Regarding the massacre of 300,000 ordinary people, Lu Chuan obviously did not pay much attention to it, but almost nothing. For a city occupied in a war, it is absolutely understandable for the enemy to kill the enemy in a war. The war itself has nothing to do with morality. However, the Nanjing Massacre is not a war. I think Lu Chuan's concept of "slaughter" There are obviously some unbelievable mistakes, and he obviously prefers "rape" to the massacre of 300,000 people.
2. He participated in the "military care" not only of China, but also of Japanese women. Lu Chuan did not forget to mention a similar comparison between Japanese comfort women and Chinese comfort women. His depiction of Japanese comfort women seems to be arguing for the Chinese women who were severely violated in the Nanjing Massacre. It is difficult for me to understand what he is trying to explain. Is it because women all over the world are so miserable or is the nature of the women who were gang-raped in the Nanjing Massacre similar to the comfort women from Japan? His portrayal of the role of "Yuriko" symbolizes her as a successor to the Japanese military. , a symbol of motherhood and homeland. This made me wonder again. Lu Chuan said this to explain that the inhumane behavior of the Japanese who participated in the Nanjing Massacre may still bring back the instinct of human beings to return to their mothers?
3. He participated in the sacrifice of Japanese soldiers who died in battle. Suddenly a drum beat, woke the eldest brother, released two people, and went to commit suicide.
Judging from the behavior of Kadokawa's participation above, I really can't figure out why this person committed suicide.
I do not deny that during the Nanjing Massacre, there were indeed kind-hearted Japanese friends who helped the Chinese people escape their misery. But a character like Kadokawa is far from having any typical characteristics. He is not kind, immoral, and it can even be said that his death is a loss of chrysanthemum spirit and ignoring military discipline (a taboo in Japanese culture). However, Lu Chuan regards him as a subjective perspective. .
Then let's take a look again, what deeds made "Kadokawa" (the fact is Lu Chuan) moved, regretted, despaired, and even committed suicide.
1. Liu Ye. His actions led a group of iron-blooded soldiers to be shot by the Japanese while chanting "Long Live China", leaving behind a string of "Little Douzi" who eventually left a string of ignorant giggles on the screen and a captured envoy who would only The Communist Party called "Mr. Jiang, save me". I don't know why Lu Chuan arranged for the resisting character like Liu Ye to die, but the last two characters are so alive, one of them seems to be the hope in his film, that is, he was commented "Wow China has the last laugh" after watching the film. girl role. Why are these two characters so happy after Kadokawa's suicide to see that he doesn't have bullet holes, blowing a dandelion smirk? Just because they live? Did they think there was hope just because they saw Kadokawa's suicide? About a few days ago, Teacher Jiang, played by Gao Yuanyuan, died to save them, so why can Lu Chuan make them laugh so heartlessly? Or in that case, can the Chinese just take the ultimate goal of not being shot with bullet holes by the Japanese, and they can be free without bullet holes? That Liu Ye was really busy, and the phrase "Long Live China" turned into a joke.
2. Rabe. I haven't seen "John Rabe" which was released at the same time, but according to the facts, Rabe used his identity as a Nazi party to save 300,000 Chinese refugees. However, in this "Nanjing!" directed by Lu Chuan Nanjing! ", Rabe is like a clown. His lobbying was dull and wise, his voice full of tears was like a charity speech given by dignitaries in the present century. In the end, he seemed to take advantage of his position to take away Mr. Tang's wife, Fan Weiyan's secretary. For a Chinese who has not experienced the massacre, I feel sorry for Rabe's disrespect for a patriotic educational film in my country that has passed the China Film Rape Bureau's censorship. If a nation can only cry (I think of Mr. Lu Chuan's tears in CCTV), only provocative (it's sad that this provocation can only incite itself and a group of girls who are prone to pear flowers and rain), and only hate , I don’t know how to be grateful and respectful, and I don’t want to go into details later.
3. High and round. I like Gao Yuanyuan a lot, but that doesn't mean I like her in this drama. Her crying and persistence only made me feel like she was acting, just acting, nothing more. The teacher Jiang, who performed her performance, classified herself as a member of the international organization, giving the impression that she was not a Chinese, but a saint who came to save the Chinese. The saint must sacrifice in the end, and it is impossible to justify without sacrifice. , However, she is more of crying with children and girls, I don't understand, the prostitute played by Jiang Yiyan can volunteer to be a comfort woman, and Teacher Jiang played by Gao Yuanyuan is superior to others? (PS I don't think volunteering to be a comfort woman will elevate to the metaphysical stage of communist morality.)
4. Fan Wei. I can't understand Fan Wei's character either (forgive me for being mentally retarded while watching this film). At first, I was rather stubborn, nodded and bowed to the Japanese devils, and because I was Rabe's secretary, I was very happy with the Japanese "friends and friends". Imperial Army. Unfortunately, the Japanese did not take this account, and still killed his daughter and sister-in-law. In the end, I followed Rabe and left, and suddenly gave up my wife and the child in my wife's womb in order to save an inexplicable Rabe assistant. I wondered at the time, what kind of human nature is this?
5. Jiang Yiyan. This is the only character that is more moving. It's just a comparison, because the portrayal is more decisive. In order to save a room of women in the safe area, he was the first to volunteer to be a Japanese comfort woman and died in the Japanese in the military camp. But for the whole film, she really doesn't help.
Why did Kadokawa commit suicide before such "complex human nature"? Was it because he felt that what he had done had posed a threat to the subversion of his self-worth? But most of his actions were voluntary, and no one held a gun to prevent him from raping Jiang Yiyan. Therefore, his self-selection should coincide with his self-values, and would not constitute a reason for suicide. Is it because he was struggling in the brain by the "peaceful and happy atmosphere" of the surrounding Japanese army and the social environment of the Chinese people, which led to suicide due to self-pressure? The last thing he gave up was two Chinese soldiers. He should know why he wanted to kill these people. If he wanted to kill two women, I think it would be excusable. It is nonsense that two Chinese soldiers committed suicide afterward, and does not constitute a cause of suicide. Is it because he kept committing suicide in a purposeful and planned way because of external stimuli and after long-term judgment and reasoning? No, a person who is in the mood to adjust to suicide will dance the imperial army's dance so freely? In the end, I can only attribute Kadokawa's suicide to "emotional suicide" caused by sacrificial drumbeats. The most ridiculous thing is that this type of suicide has nothing to do with human nature at all, but is just an impulse and an instant eruption caused by the difficulty of emotional adjustment. To end this kind of suicide is to justify or atone for the Japanese?
This is roughly the character Lu Chuan portrays and the decent-sounding but lacking sincerity Nanjing! Nanjing! ". Does Lu Chuan want to "sincerely" restore the scenes from the Nanjing Massacre? Not so, he used the Nanjing Massacre, a subject that is difficult to criticize from a negative angle, to instill his self-righteous humanity. Maybe he really wanted to be "sincere", but his wisdom could not achieve this, so all the The characterizations of the characters have become ambiguous. It was originally a massacre that was difficult to slander with any excuse, but he also raised it to the level of "humanity". Instead of looking at the Japanese's inexplicable behavioral perspective, it is better to use the deeply painful Chinese perspective to restore the Nanjing Massacre. Such a disaster still wants to opportunistically to please the audience and the box office. Mistakes or really shallow knowledge is astounding.
Finally I want to mention one thing.
Some people say they were shocked by the film. I just want to say, this classmate, haven't you studied basic history? When you were studying this history, did you think that the figure of 300,000 could only be bought in RMB to buy a few floor tiles in downtown Shanghai?
What shocks you is simply history, passive resistance, poverty and backwardness, and being slaughtered by others. What does this have to do with this movie?
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