For movies, since "Farewell My Concubine", I have been hard to find a film that is memorable enough to be included in a lifetime movie library.
To be honest, I have always had a feeling of helplessness for films with historical themes, not because they can’t reflect the real history, but because the Chinese like to render scenes too much and ignore the same reality, and they are the individuals who really support these scenes. . Although individuals are scattered, they are souls. Souls can pierce the soul, but the scenes can only heighten the atmosphere.
"Children of Yellowstone" is such a step-by-step film, a step-by-step narration of individuals or souls in the course of history. Don't say how many flaws he has, only from a human point of view, it is successful.
The background of the film took place during the numerous Japanese wars of aggression against China, but if you only look at the history and the shame of that period of history or the starting point of inspiring national sentiments, it would be a bit shallow.
The extinction of the Japanese devils and the intrigue between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are just foreshadowing. It is the story between an Englishman George Hogg, a war correspondent, and 60 Chinese children. The description of people in the film is very good. There is no heroic image in the main theme of China. Every child has a distinct personality, and the protagonist is also full of flesh and blood. Facing the butcher knife, the protagonist showed the fear he should have. I even think that within a second, he will ask for mercy. This is very real and very human.
The whole film did not sublimate the feelings too much. It has always been tepid and straightforward. There is no interruption of the story behind each child to supplement the trauma of the war. It is known that the protagonist sent the child to Shandan, because of the destruction. A cold, and when the child who took the medicine came back and saw the kite carrying the cross, he had reached a certain point, but it was still calm. The scene of no one kneeling and crying and the government coming forward to give sympathy and condolences was even more real.
The description of history from a rare perspective not only makes you more profound about that period of history, but also allows you to remember such a full-blooded person, George Hogg, who exists in history and is still alive. In the memory of the old man.
Finally, as a Chinese, as a Chinese with full nationalism, this film also reminds us of not forgetting history and self-respect.
What Chinese people remember and admire is a great personality, not a cowardly and shameless nation.
"Children of Yellowstone", real, small moving.
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