hopeless struggle

I have always felt that for a nation or country, regarding the pain it has inflicted on other nations or passively endured, only its own reflection is truly powerful and more valuable, because only they can deeply appreciate that history, cultural and national characteristics. Regarding the crimes committed by Japan in World War II, in the film field, China, as the party that suffered great pain, tends to expose the numerous crimes of the Japanese army. Since the war did not go deep into the territory and is the victor, the United States seems to be inclined to show the state of war in the war. Or the feeling of human nature is often too skinny. Therefore, the real reflection must be made by Japan itself to be valuable. In this regard, Japanese films in a reflective position are different from German films, which often face the war itself, even at the top of the time. Many of Japan's reflective works are often written before and after the war, such as "Elegy of Violence", which analyzes the madness of the war before the war, and a large number of works that analyze the consequences of the war from the life of Japanese civilians after the war. Anti-war works, but they are often reluctant to touch on the period of the war itself, but the right-wing elements are more daring and have made many movies praising the war to conjure the soul of militarism.

In terms of war reflection, Ichichuankun seems to be more courageous. The two films "Myanmar Harp" and "Wildfire", which reflect the situation of the Japanese army at the end of the Asian battlefield, face the reality more directly. "Myanmar Harp" is relatively warm, while "Wildfire" It is a naked display of battlefield hell, reflecting on the tragedies brought about by the war from the perspective of Japan. The battlefield shown in "Wildfire" is quite terrifying, but I guess from the Chinese point of view, many people who watched this film would also express their dissatisfaction, thinking that the film overplayed how miserable the Japanese soldiers were in the war in the end, but did not show the Japanese army's Atrocities, do not know the comparison between the two, such consequences belong to retribution, deserve it! I have always believed that reflection on war is a process of three-dimensional and multi-angle convergence. You have to combine reflections from Chinese, American, Korean, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Japanese perspectives. It is the whole picture, and as a Japanese director, Ichichuan Kun is of course easier and more accurate to view the war from the Japanese perspective. The background of the film is the Philippine battlefield. At the end of World War II, the US military has landed, the Japanese army is in defeat, and the stragglers are in or out. Do helpless resistance, or run away, but the general feeling is to survive.

At the beginning of the war, we saw Tamura, a weak soldier, confronted with reprimands from the commander because he was sent to the hospital due to a lung disease and returned to the battalion to report after two days. Go back to the hospital, if the hospital refuses to admit her, she simply commits suicide. At the beginning of the film, there is a message of despair. The army is insufficiently supplied, and it can be counted as less burdensome. When Tamura comes up, he has a thin figure, a dull expression, and a confused look. As an abandoned person, he is somewhat lacking. Wandering with a sense of direction, witnessing the strange status quo along the way. As we saw with him, the Japanese soldiers generally looked desperate or cynical, why loyalty to the emperor was not as good as a mouthful of rice, a mouthful of salt, and we didn't see some desperate Japanese soldiers suicide jade that is common in movies In the scene of burning bushido, on the contrary, in order to survive, they can eat grass, roots, bark, soil, and even people. For example, Tamura started out as an unpopular "ball", but when he found some salt, he became everyone's guest of honor, but he was actually thinking about how to coax some salt from him. .

Tamura is a task with a complex character. He appears weak and lonely, but he also has a strong desire to survive. At the same time, he tries to maintain human dignity and refuses to perform acts such as cannibalism. However, the more he tried to maintain his dignity, the more ridiculous he appeared under the circumstances at the time, and this ridiculous feeling even more reflected the destruction of human morality and dignity by the war. Food animals, the characteristics of the remaining "higher animals" are also intrigue and selfishness. Even Tamura's perseverance was not as he wished. In the Philippines, their long-term evil deeds aroused fear and hatred among the locals, which in turn made them uneasy. The locals, when he faced the corpse in horror and revealed some remorse, suddenly found the salt under the floor, you immediately disregarded these confessions and hurried out of the salt, but then threw the murder rifle into the river, such a human nature The repeated swings of the bias also express the struggle for survival and human nature in an extraordinary environment. At the same time, there is also a detail in the film that shows that when a desperate Japanese soldier ran to the two American soldiers to surrender, a local girl who was following the American soldiers almost instinctively held up a machine gun and shot at him. During the process, her eyes were dull, hatred had become an instinct, and this scene also scared away several soldiers on the hillside who were also planning to surrender.

At the end of the film, Tamura killed a soldier who was devouring human flesh, and ran helplessly towards the wildfire with his arms high. Although he knew what the hated locals would greet him, he was already in a state of collapse at the moment. On the edge, can only stagger toward death. Tamura's ending is worth thinking about. He can't stand an inhuman state of cannibalism, but the more normal society on the other side is his enemy. They won't accept him, they can only destroy him. The result of war is to push a group of soldiers into a situation where they are either insane inhumanity, or freed by death. Ichichuan Kun penetrated his thoughts on war and human nature in this film. As a Chinese audience, he may feel a little unacceptable to Tamura's persistence in human nature. After all, he is an aggressor, and one is also stained with the blood of his victims. executioner. However, this also reflects the evil of war. It makes a person who may have a good heart gradually be bewitched into a killer. In the face of failure and desperation, he struggles hopelessly and eventually leads to destruction.

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