The story started like this. In 1937, George Hok, who had just graduated from Oxford University, came to Shanghai from Tokyo after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. He planned to report on "How Japan Helped China", but he witnessed the Japanese occupation. , China’s cities and everything in life are collapsing. He was shaken by a series of atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army. In order to let the world know the truth about the war, he stayed in China as a reporter. He ran around during the war, and finally shouldered the responsibility of the principal of a war orphan school. He took the school's Chinese children to escape the war. With the power of his hands, he turned it into a place full of beautiful and strong memories. In order to avoid the war, he took more than 60 Chinese children from the school for a long distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. After going through hardships, he crossed the snow-capped mountains to a safe area, and finally left his life in the Gobi Desert...
In the film, the cruel reality makes He Ke grows up, and He Li's love makes He Ke mature. He Ke, who almost died by the Japanese knife, was shocked when he met Rei, a female nurse from Australia. Li's free and easy, strong and deeply attracted He Ke, which made him firm the faith that remained; but Li's mystery and erratic character also made He Ke unpredictable and deeply in pain. Li, also an outcast of society, "an untimely person, a troublemaker, and an agitator. She was once a bad boy in an orphanage, but a rotten apple thrown on the factory floor." After arriving in China, she joined a charity organization to help the poor, but too much misfortune and injustice made her addicted to drugs, and then she became a military nurse who rescued the wounded by accident. From the salvation of the orphans, Rei also completed the salvation of herself, from a "bad girl" to an "angel-like woman with the feelings of the Virgin Mary". And Ho Ke, from a big boy with gray ideals to a humanitarian fighter with iron will, has become a hero of the era admired by thousands of people.
The Han Sheng played by Fa Ge graduated from West Point Military Academy. He once said that he originally built buildings, but now he came back to destroy buildings. He said that what he liked most was the sound of buildings being blown up, giving Little Japan a little bit of color. In the film, Fa Ge is different from the heroic and invincible image of the Communist Party of Gao Daquan in the past. He often creates a little humor, and every time he appears, it means that the dragon will not see the end.
Mrs. Wang, played by Michelle Yeoh, in order to rescue He Ke, who was arrested by the KMT, exchanged something that "thinks a little more value than him". When He Ke and the children left Huangshi for Shandan, we saw something disgusting. The Kuomintang was waiting for her in Wang's room.
The ending is very similar to "The Veil". The hero and heroine have a hard time living a happy life, but the hero suffered a serious illness because of a seemingly innocuous injury and bleeding before, and unfortunately passed away.
The ending is very similar to "Schindler's List", and the rescued are already in their old age, and they all stand up for sincere dialogue. At this time, we were completely moved because we firmly believed that Schindler and Hok had actually existed in our lives. At the end of the film, those people who were gray-haired old people confirmed the truth of the legend, "He is a perfect man, a perfect man without any flaws", "We will always thank and commemorate him", "Our four brothers are all perfect." I don’t know my birthday. Our birthday is July 22, which is the day when
Hoke passed away.”How to say, this movie will not give you too much surprise and shock. "The List", the scene of the German Nazi slaughter of Jews is still fresh, and Schindler’s resolute list of the Jews is still fresh in his memory of Schindler’s resolute list of names, and he can’t control himself to add one name after another to save the Jews with all his financial resources. After saving so many people, the speculators are still confessing that "I should use a car and use a badge to trade with them, so I can save two more, even if it's just one person." The memory is still fresh, so there are many scenes in this film. It won't be an unexpected touch.
He Ke died on July 22, 1945. He was 30 years old. It was only 23 days before the Japanese surrendered. In today's Shandan, there is also the tombstone of George Hok.
The director has never been sensational, always so faint, and even the three months of wind and rain on the road have only passed by. However, a real person once did a real and great thing, which in itself is touching.
This is the first time that I have seen a scene of a Japanese massacre of Chinese people organized in broad daylight in a movie made by a Westerner. It was indeed the first time. After the slaughter, the corpses were piled together and burned. The film also does not obscure that the Japanese organized and planned to cover up the truth of the massacre. When the Japanese intelligence officer discovered George's camera and negatives, he immediately executed George by beheading, and several foreigners who entered the safe zone were killed. The movie "Children of Yellowstone" draws a big mouth from the Japanese right-wing extremists who still blindly deny the Japanese war of aggression against China and the "Nanjing Massacre".
When watching this movie, I always cherish the awe of that period of history. I am in awe of every innocent people slaughtered by the Japanese militarists and every international friend who has made efforts and sacrifices for the Chinese people's war of resistance. We know Bethune, we also know Rabe, and Weatherine, but we don't know George Hok.
Thank you for this film. It was this film that let me know something that happened in China during World War II that I didn't know. It was they who let us know Hoke.
I have always wondered what the title of this film is called "Children of Yellowstone". The background of the story is not in Huangshi. I am even more confused after watching the movie. Fa Ge is categorical and tells the actor Mr. He Ke: "Look here, the railway It leads to Baoji, and then to the northwest, you reach Huangshi." Later, I read the comments on the Internet and found out that originally, the story happened in a place called Shuangshipu, but when the screenwriter was writing, he felt that it was difficult to pronounce it, so he wrote it. It was changed to Huangshi, and I wanted to wait until the script was discussed and changed back to "Shuangshipu" when it officially started; but when it was officially started, several German-speaking producers insisted not to change it. They think if the audience can't even pronounce the sound "Shuangshipu", how many people will watch this movie? Hehe, so "Children of Yellowstone" was born.
To be honest, from the bottom of my heart, I still hope that more people will watch this movie and learn about the story between the Westerner and the Chinese child, not to promote anything, but to remember something we shouldn’t forget in this busy day. .
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