"Ender's Game" is an anti-Japanese drama wrapped in a high-tech American drama!
The Americans not only ravaged the Japanese with teenagers and quasi-juveniles, but also compared the people of the island country to the Zerg. It can be said that they completely abandoned Ruth Benedict's "chrysanthemum and sword" perspective.
(After World War II was about to end, the U.S. government organized a book by scholars to understand Japan's unique national character in order to formulate post-war policy toward Japan. The author is Ruth Benedict, based only on previous books on Japan A book written on the basis of interviews with Japanese prisoners of war. To be honest, he has never been to Japan, and does not have a lot of first-hand information about Japan. The things he wrote should not be so profound, but in fact the opposite is true. , This book is regarded as the best book describing Japanese national character.)
end game--is it really an anti-Japanese drama?
Please see two points:
1.
The teacher of the protagonist Maori , his father was Maori, who died in the battle, and he was the hero of the earth who destroyed the last attack of the Zerg!
----The Battle of Midway in World War II was an important strategic move by the Japanese to avenge the US Air Force's air raid on Tokyo and to open the door to the Hawaiian Islands.
It was also an important battle of World War II and a well-known example of the U.S. Navy winning more with less. The U.S. Navy not only successfully repelled the Japanese Navy's attack on Midway Atoll in this battle, but also gained the initiative of the Pacific Theater, thus becoming a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
At that time, several reconnaissance detachments of the U.S. military did not find the Japanese fleet at the designated location, but Captain John Waldron of the 8th Torpedo Attack Squadron led his team to find the location of the Japanese fleet with the intuition of Indian blood. !
2. The nuclear explosion The
protagonist commanded the battleship to launch a decisive death-light bombardment on the planet occupied by the Zerg, and finally killed the entire planet, during which everything vanished.
----The Japanese militarism of World War II, on the eve of the exhaustion of resources, is still retreating to the island and carrying out the jade crushing plan. In order to reduce the casualties of the island capture, among other various reasons, the politicians (isn't it the many people from the observation deck in the film?) decided to nuclear bomb Japan.
As a result, there are some quotations stating that "the articles of the US military pilots described that they suffered huge psychological pressure before and after the bombing." Isn't it reflected in the final emotional venting of the protagonist in the film?
Therefore, I would like to say that this film is an anti-Japanese drama, and Americans are obviously far superior to our film and television screenwriters' ability and sarcasm!
Not only can the new generation of Zerg come to enjoy the show together, but also the box office can be obtained from the descendants of Zerg. Wake up, our directors!
Note that this film is based on the original work of American science fiction writer Orson Scott Card.
It's a pity that I haven't seen the original work, and I don't know how many anti-Japanese revisions made by director Gavin Hood!
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