(I can't write a short review..)
This is probably the best "war movie" I've ever seen. Use one extreme to express the other naturally, the mildest = the cruelest.
The perspective and character design are too smart. The mediocre life, resignation and rejoicing in suffering, the wartime atmosphere that should have been tense has become a distant painting painted by oil brushes, and the space for reverie and contrast has become infinite. And once you accept this setting, and then tear open the gap a little bit, the shock will be far more intense than the direct depiction of the flesh and blood on the battlefield. Da Yin Xi Sheng was speechless, nothing more than that.
As I watched it, I remembered what my grandparents once told me, the childhood story of the fighter plane bombing he experienced.
Ironically, it wasn't until the mushroom cloud appeared that I realized that I was "whitewashing World War II." . This contrast is ridiculous and helpless.
Almost all themes related to war have two progressive motifs: express cruelty → express anti-war.
The former, it unearths the most touching "corners" of the world.
The latter... I prefer to understand that the ending just expresses the emptiness of ordinary people after learning that they were defeated. The suspicion is that the heroine's remarks such as "I can still fight" are beyond this category. But then came the rebuilding of the home and the return of life, and the general tone was consistent.
If it is interpreted as "promoting war", even all the previous efforts to survive and make fun of hardships seem to have ulterior motives for the creators behind the scenes.
Just like the technique used in the film, there is a thin line between the extremes.
Take a step back. Political value aside, whether film creation must follow universal values is another issue. At least in terms of artistic expression, it is surprising enough.
Hey? Did we also have a magic movie with the same cutting point last year that finally aired, called "The Big Bomb"?
View more about In This Corner of the World reviews
