intertwined and intertwined with countless ends and causes, which are combined into a torrent of history, destroying the dead. We were born in it, we died in it, we were overwhelmed by it. For the most part, humble humans like us have no choice - we can only be chosen by history. In other words, everything is fixed. The people who were abandoned on Iwo Jima were dragging their feet towards the grave. From the very beginning, Kuribayashi knew that Iwo Jima was just a coffin, and that soldiers and generals were sent to die by the motherland. "Sorry, unable to discharge support", it seems, they have indeed been abandoned. But when the battle was at a loss, the voice of the motherland came over the radio, and the children sang about Iwo Jima, and sang of the people who guarded the motherland on the remote island. I am dumbfounded. How did the soldiers feel when they heard such a song? How much they want to protect their country, but their last hope of survival is precisely extinguished by their own country's sensational method. Their already decided fate became more certain, and they put on flamboyant hats.
We hate war so much, and at the same time we are fighting endlessly. It turns out that half of human nature is always inhumane. We will never be able to look at the present from the future, and we will never know what name history will engrave on our tombstones. We just act blindly or cautiously, waiting to be heroes, traitors, great men, murderers, or mediocre idiots after we die, and then be written in textbooks, made into movies, and turned into dust for people to forget . And history does not know the truth, so future generations do not know the truth. It is only us who understand it. Perhaps those great men were actually murderers, and traitors were heroes. And in the end, what is the difference between a great man and a murderer, a traitor and a hero? Nothing but people. There is always one half of human nature that is inhumane.
2. Strange Japanese
A group of out-and-out weirdos lives on the island. I often think that the Bushido spirit makes the Japanese mind too simplistic, thinking that the world is black and white, believing in certain concepts or people without thinking through the brain, and willingly working for it, making mistakes and not thinking about what to do To correct or make up for it, I understand myself and apologize in the most painful way, but in the end, the problem is still not solved. A group of people like a colony of ants. But they are the toughest guys to deal with.
I know some Japanese people who seem normal on the surface, but I guess they must have some "Seiya" in their hearts. The few Japanese people portrayed by Eastwood in the film are either Westernized or very human and dare to fight against ideology, which is probably not representative. The vast majority of Japanese are still ignorant. Last year, I watched some Yamato dramas, and it was nothing more than Bushido, and the whole family was proud of it after a fool's caesarean section for the sake of nonsense beliefs.
I absolutely cannot understand, don't the Japanese have the survival instinct that all living things have? Liu Hulan was guillotined to keep a secret. Dong Cunrui blew up the bunker before he died, and Huang Jiguang blocked the gun before he died. At least we all deserve to die. The Japanese collectively cut their abdomens because they lost a mountain. Isn't this a loss of the wife and the loss of the army? In this way, they obviously can't make up their minds. From the movie, the soldiers still died reluctantly, but under the oppression of traditions and ideologies formed over hundreds of thousands of years, they had to die. But this is always the perspective of Westerners, and it remains to be understood what the Japanese are like.
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The pronunciation of Shiqu Xixiang is saigo, which is the same as the pronunciation of "last". I don't know if it's the author's pun, but he really lived to the end anyway.
Kazuya Ninomiya's performance greatly exceeded my expectations. This kid is quite entertaining, and I am optimistic about him.
So much to say.
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