For me, the letter from Iwo Jima is very simple, it is the extreme of spitting blood and shameless attitude towards war, a simple story with beautiful photography and music. I am surprised that Steven Spielberg is also the producer of this film. Judging from his history of directing Schindler's List and rescuing Private Ryan, it is hard to imagine that he would make such a film, this lousy film. The biggest flaw is the script. I don't know if I cut corners in the research because of the cost savings of co-producing the two films.
Iwo Jima was the first time that the Allied forces entered Japan’s territory in World War II. Japan lost its strong naval advantage because of the continuous retreat after the Guadalcanal War. This battle was doomed to the Japanese army’s failure from the beginning. The failure was only Sooner or later, the Japanese army who appeared in the film easily became the victim of the powerful US artillery fire, so it was taken for granted that it was in line with the victim's image of sacrifice to defend the home and the country.
The origin of this film is said to be the picture letter "Picture Letters from Commander in Chief" by Yuko Yoshida Tsuyoshi", which is not recorded in this book. The letter I wrote is the script of "Red Sun and Black Sand" written by Japanese-American screenwriter Alice Yamashita with reference and imagination. I agree with the screenwriter's patriotic mentality as a Japanese, but after the script was awarded to the screen, The stance of this film is questionable. I mentioned before that the reason for producing Steven Spielberg is this. Imagine that Steven Spielberg would make a Nazi monster of Oshowitz defending Berlin bravely. A film about defending the country and sacrificing it? Everything has a cause and effect, and the reason for the end of the Japanese on Iwo Jima is not mentioned at all. This is the biggest failure of the film.
In addition, the level of dog blood spilled in the film has exceeded the blood plasma used for the death of the American and Japanese soldiers in the film. For example: in the film, an American soldier was shot, and a Japanese officer insisted on healing his wounds regardless of how little medicine was left, and read aloud after his death. The letter from the deceased, every Japanese soldier burst into tears, it turns out that the Americans are not bad because the letter written by his "old lady" changed their impression of the US military. Seriously, would you believe such nonsense? Let's just throw down the guns, the US and Japanese armies hug each other and get homesick. Besides, the notoriety of the Japanese army for treating prisoners of war is well known to the whole world (the German army is at least a little more human than the Japanese army in addition to beating prisoners of war in other countries), what this Japanese officer did to the US military is just absurd. If it was so humane, the US military would not use it The flame gun was a weapon against the Japanese. The act of reading the letter is especially funny. Don't the Chinese and other Asians still don't write family letters without a mother? Another protagonist in the film, Ninomiya Kono, was left behind by Li Lin Zhongdao to save his life, which is even more absurd. In this case, why not save other Japanese soldiers? Wan, do you really despise the war or warm-heartedism is a problem, you can't justify it in terms of the plot, so I can't think of a better adjective to describe it other than promiscuity.
The reason why the movie has a good review is that its surface purpose is to describe the uglyness of war from a human point of view and then spurn it, but the whole film gives people the feeling that there is no human touch. Basically a coward? When other soldiers fought fiercely, raped and abused in other countries, did you ever think about what happened in Iwo Jima today? When the stupid Japanese army did not listen to the command and blindly committed suicide or moved the gun target as a live bomb scurrying around, it only showed the ugly and incompetent nature of the Japanese soldier, which made me sleepy at all; the description of the commander, Tadashi Kuribayashi even more condemned The name of the war beautifies the reality of war criminals, and the evil deeds of Li Lin Zhongdao in Guangzhou and Hong Kong have been deified because of the letter from Iwo Jima. The film made by Clint Eastwood is simply another copy of Japan's worship of the Yasukuni Shrine. , this is a very serious mistake that a senior film worker should not make. There is no complete historical textual research, and a very one-sided statement will only cause history to be misinterpreted and misinterpreted. This mistake is a huge Hollywood culture. The sequelae of the influence of this situation are very large. If war criminals can be myths, then how can the victims of the invaded countries in World War II suffer.
There are a lot of descriptions of World War II in the movie works. Because of the evolution of technology, the special effects of the war from the time of Private Rennes have become more and more perfect. This mistake should not be made by critics. Many people don’t read books these days. If every film about history is so nonsense, there is no guarantee that Japan’s invasion of China and the triggering of World War II will not be distorted into Japan as a victim of World War II.
Irresponsible imaginings are just to find excuses for sins. To be honest, I suggest that Clint Eastwood can prepare for the destruction of the empire imagined by Ellis Yamashita next time. Maybe Hitler can be better than Jesus in the screenwriter's pen. The great saint, I don't believe who will buy his account then.
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