Whenever I see such touching stories about national reunification, war division, Cold War and other special times, I always think, why can't China make a few films? Under the background of Taiwan's recovery in 45, the return of Hong Kong in 1997, and the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, there are many real and touching stories that deserve to be included in the monuments of Chinese film history. Many years ago, I read a true story about the Taiwanese men's baseball team breaking into Jiaziyuan, but unfortunately it was filmed by the Japanese. At that time, we had a famous sprinter Liu Changchun in China, and there were many movies about him, but unfortunately none of them were big productions, they were full of flesh and blood. A year ago, the Korean movie "Dictionary" touched me deeply. This movie made me see that the Korean language can exist in the world, and these people have given so much dedication. What about Chinese? As a country invaded by Japan, and as Manchuria where learning Chinese is restricted, can't you find a similar story? Today, after reading "Balloons", I would like to say that every country will have its disgraceful political history, but what we need to do is to remember rather than forget. Koreans hate the Japanese because every year, there are several all-star movies with the whole country to show some stories of that era. We are still immersed in the anti-Japanese drama, maybe there will be unfathomable political factors in it, maybe our country The executives are too smart, they are a hundred times smarter than South Korea to deliberately forget these facts. Last year, the director made a documentary "Twenty-two" about the comfort women of World War II. I'm sorry I didn't dare to watch it, but it didn't seem to cause any trouble. On the contrary, it became a hot search recently because the family members demanded sky-high remuneration from the director's crew. Sometimes, I have to sigh that in the face of the commercialized film market, everything depends on money. It is rare that there are one or two sporadic directors who are willing to touch this thankless subject, and have to accept all kinds of political censorship. And be disturbed by all kinds of troubles you didn't expect. The most impressive thing I've seen is "Assembly" directed by Feng Xiaogang, which is also the only similar movie I can make without thinking. I hope that Director Feng can shoot more basics. Since he has already made enough money, he should not fall into the red dust of the market.
Going back to this movie, I haven't read the history books about East Germany and West Germany. If nothing else, after I finish the books about modern Chinese history in my hand, I should buy a few related stories to read. . Political forms can change the lives of people in a country. This is only what happened in the past few decades. We are currently living in an era of relative freedom. Only by not forgetting the past will it not lead to the tragedy of reversing. May we always remember history and remain free forever!
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