A friend said that many people started boycotting Japanese products. He asked angrily, how long can the so-called patriotic enthusiasm set off by the movie last? Just like last year when France supported Tibetan independence and the Chinese boycotted Carrefour, such a frenzy is not very good. It was like a stone thrown into the lake, and the ripples that it caused quickly disappeared into the calm lake...
Carrefour in Qingdao is still crowded and bustling every day. Whether our passions are too easily cooled, or our hearts are still not united enough.
As a generation born in the early 1980s, it seems that more people have chosen a somewhat evasive attitude towards modern history. My modern history is not good enough. It is the hardest part of my history class to remember. Last year and My friends went to Nanjing to play together. Under the tense time, I also chose to give up the route of Yuhuatai and Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. Sometimes I don’t want to face it. I admit that this is a humiliating history, and that this painful past brings We have unforgettable lessons, and we also hate the heinous crimes committed by the evil Japanese soldiers in our motherland. Now if the Japanese do something that violates the dignity of our country, I will also be angry. If the Japanese show contempt for us, I also hate it, but for this piece of history, it seems that I don’t dare to face it, I won’t take the initiative to read related books, and I won’t watch related film and television works.
The most unexpected thing is that the unit even took this Nanjing! Nanjing! As a patriotic education film, all employees are organized to watch, and they must not be absent. Sitting on that chair helplessly, I felt my whole body stiff, the deafening sound made you have nowhere to hide, curled up as much as possible, leaned on the back of the chair, my throat was thirsty and obscure, a kind of An indescribable sense of oppression spread from the grey sky of the screen, taking a deep breath, I encouraged myself that it was time to face this history.
2 hours of suffering, all the time, many times I felt that I had broken through my psychological limit. Half an hour after the opening, I quickly left the screening hall, stood outside the door against the wall and tried to breathe steadily, and then struggled again. Re-opening the door, there were also a few scenes where I had to close my eyes, and despite plugging my ears, I could still hear my own crying mixed with the surrounding cries, it was a suppressed cry, my chest was pierced. The hopeless weeping of the heavy rock...
Different from the movie that reflects the Japanese invasion in my impression, there is no exciting resistance, and there is no magnificent war scene. Nanjing in the movie is just an isolated city, and the people who have been abandoned by God are suffering. The hell, the eternal gray sky, the corpses everywhere, the rubble of buildings, the ruins of the city, and the brutality that happens every moment, the movie is not bloody, but it is cruel, for the aggressor and the invaded, it is unforgivable The cruelty, even to every viewer present, especially female viewers, is a cruel injury.
The two-hour movie, which took nearly an hour and a half to describe the tragic experience of the comfort women, made me wonder about the director's shooting angle, especially when the naked bodies of the comfort women were pushed out, I believe that every single person in the cinema was The women here are sitting on pins and needles, an uncontrollable anger towards the director, anger towards men, anger towards the patriarchy of the whole society, filled my heart, and this anger even made me almost ignore this. A war, a post-aggression atrocity.
Why must such an angle be chosen to reflect the cruelty of the war, why must the grief and shame suffered by women must be so exaggerated to earn the tears of the audience, deeply stab women's self-esteem and feelings, in this era of patriarchy , the biggest victims of war are always women. Women lose their husbands and children. Whether it is the winning side or the losing side, women are occupied, insulted, and even destroyed as objects like land and houses. Is it necessary to render it so excessively and show it on the screen?
Those women's naked bodies are used to earn sympathy, tears, and gimmicks. This kind of behavior makes me sick.
Teacher Jiang, played by Gao Yuanyuan, finally said to the Japanese soldier named Kadokawa, shoot me! I waited anxiously for the gunshot. I believed that Kadokawa would definitely save her. As far as I felt at the time, death was the real redemption. With the gunshot, I was finally able to breathe a long sigh of relief and slumped into the chair.
Death, inescapable death permeates everywhere, the only difference is the form of death, Kadokawa let the child and the man go, but he shot himself. I don't know what kind of state of mind this Japanese actor is in the process of performing.
Maybe Kadokawa's final line is the theme of the movie, at least in those days, life was much harder than death. In the midst of despair, I just want to die quickly.
I think I still believe that it is not the invaders and victims that are cruel, it is the war itself that is cruel. This is not a good movie that can properly reflect the situation in Nanjing at that time. It is not real enough and not enough to move people's hearts. On the contrary, because of the exaggerated and powerless atmosphere, it causes helpless disgust.
At the end of the movie, I took the escalator peacefully through the dazzling shopping malls. People passed by with laughter and laughter. The central air conditioner delivered warm and humid air. In such a peaceful era, because of the strength of the motherland, individual lives have also received due respect. Only then will we be able to enjoy life more.
Buy a cup of Luoshen black tea at the roadside beverage station, sit on the street, the cool liquid flows through the throat to soothe the twitching stomach, there is no hatred and no grief, isn't this cool night the moment we should cherish the most, for this Peaceful night, enjoy the beauty of life, cherish, love, and struggle.
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