The film "Love of Hiroshima" draws the past of the war from a love story. It tells the story of a French actress (Emmanuel Riva) who comes to Hiroshima, Japan to shoot a film promoting peace, and encounters a local construction engineer (Eiji Okada). However, because of the special nature of this land in Hiroshima, when the two embraced passionately, the actress always flashed some cruel images of war in her mind. When the construction engineer described the tragic atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she often reminded her of a love affair she had with a German soldier in a small French town during World War II.
In terms of expression, the film does not resemble the traditional linear narrative method, but uses a large number of time-space interlaced and transformed stream-of-consciousness techniques to display the activities of the characters. At the same time, it also makes full use of symbolic techniques to interlace and mix the past and the present, the present and the memory, the reality and the fantasy, the dream and the reality, making the storyline blurred and giving the audience unlimited imagination space.
War brings infinite disasters to people, and peace is the eternal hope.
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