The impression of Pian Yuan Xuzhi is still on the criminal violence and the cold and hard style of "Black Reef". I didn't expect that the plot is delicate and the color is bright and fresh, and he still does a good job. It can beat "Your Name" in various professional film review lists and become the number one Japanese film in the ten-year report. The production level is indeed higher than "Your Name". From a human standpoint, I can't really agree.
The background of this film is set during World War II. It does not take a heavy and deliberately provocative route. It uses a bland and warm life drama style to show the daily life of the little people in the war. The heroine Hojo Suzu was born in the countryside of Hiroshima, with a harmonious family, a well-off life, a love for painting, and a childhood sweetheart with mutual affection. At the age of 18, childhood sweetheart has become a navy, and Suzu was also proposed by Hojo Zhouzuo of Wu City to marry him. Married in Wu City, Ling slowly adapts to the life of a housewife, and her dull and confused character also adds a lot of fun to the trivial life. The tone of the early stage of the work is a sense of calm and peaceful family life. Even after the war spread to Wu City, Ling began to face the death and parting of her relatives, and she did not over-exaggerate the sad atmosphere. Ling lost her right hand who loved painting in the war. After a period of depression, she quickly recovered and supported each other with her family to continue living. Even with the scarcity of supplies and difficulties brought by the war, Suzu survived positively and optimistically, everything was peaceful and warm, until the emperor declared defeat on the radio and Japan surrendered, Suzu cried out, "This is not something to be conscious of from the beginning. Don't you? Don't you want to fight with all your might?" "Things that I have always considered reasonable, the reasons I have endured for them all fly away. The rice and soybeans from the sea are all made of these things, right? , so do we have to give in to violence?" My sensitivity as a Chinese made me suddenly realize that there is something wrong with the orientation of this work.
Wu City, also known as Wu Port, was an important military port in Japan during World War II. It had strong shipbuilding and ship repair capabilities. It played a huge role in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. military listed Wugang as a revenge for Pearl Harbor. Focus on bombing targets, the heroine Ling lives in such a city. The second half of the story is about Ling and her family supporting each other in the face of the U.S. air raid, actively living, open-minded and warm tone. This kind of ordinary and simple warm feeling in the war makes the audience involuntarily have pity and sympathy, thus covering up this scene. The real cause of the war. The film only shows the bombing of Wu City by the U.S. military. The weak civilians desperately survived under the bombing and resisted stubbornly, but did not mention the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army, and completely dressed themselves as victims of the war. Don't forget that at the same time, the Chinese people are suffering greater pain and disaster, and the initiator of this disaster is Japan. From the beginning to the end of the film, there is no deep reflection or accusation on the war. The people in the film unconditionally support the government and yearn for the victory of the war, so that they can get more materials. However, no one has thought about how much is behind the materials. The blood and tears of the Chinese, his so-called anti-war attitude is still unwilling to be defeated. In the face of the heroine's controversial lines, some people say that this is showing the ignorance of Japanese civilians, the ignorance that even the Japanese audience did not see, what qualifications do you have to make such a deep understanding for them . The real anti-war film is to dare to make a face-to-face criticism and introspection, clearly recognize your own mistakes, rather than do everything possible to cover up the nature of war.
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