This film is also very ideological. In the end, Mizushima's letter answered the reason why he wanted to stay in Myanmar. Everyone must understand it well, so I won't repeat it here.
But I think Mizushima's letter failed to answer a question: Why does he always avoid his teammates? Why does he stand silently even when facing his teammates without saying a word? Why does he always keep a distance from his teammates?
I think that only from his sorrow towards the dead Japanese soldiers, his reflection on the war, his belief in Buddhism, and his determination to stay in Burma to bury the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, these reasons he explained do not explain why he did not agree with him. Teammates speak, why keep the distance from teammates this phenomenon.
I secretly thought that Mizushima had actually experienced the failure of persuading surrender, seeing the resistance of the Japanese army only for dignity and disregarding their lives, and seeing the dead Japanese corpses everywhere along the way. He has begun to realize one of the roots of this tragedy: collective fanaticism. .
Therefore, Mizushima began to awaken. He wanted to become an independent person, with self-awareness and his own thoughts, and to live for his ideals instead of being lost in the unconsciousness of the group. This is why he keeps his distance from his teammates: in his opinion, his teammates work in a uniform manner in the prison camp, and think about returning to Japan every day. They still represent the will of the majority, the collective, if he Returning to them, he is likely to be submerged in a group of people again. Therefore, he subconsciously stood far away from his teammates and looked at them silently. The distance between them is the distance of thoughts.
These are some of my ideological additions to the film, there is no depth, and everyone is welcome to judge!
ps I really don't want to call the Japanese soldiers' companions "comrades", just use the translation "teammates" in the movie.
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