However, in fact, during World War II, there were also concentration camps in the United States, where Japanese Americans were detained.
In 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War broke out. Soon the United States gathered the Japanese in its territory and detained them in concentration camps. The reason is that these Japanese may be Japanese spies.
After the war, most of the Japanese returned to their old homes, and this matter was rarely mentioned.
In 2001, after 9/11, many Americans were saying, don't forget the concentration camps in World War II, don't forget the mistakes we made, don't make the same mistakes again because of hatred.
I'm sure a lot of people didn't even know about the fact that the U.S. used to send the Japanese to concentration camps before that. And I know this because before that, I watched "Snowflakes Falling on the Cedar Trees".
The film consists of two clues, one clue is the interrogation of a murder case on the small island of San Piedro in the winter of 50 years, and the other clue is that several characters in the case recall the love-hate relationship between them for more than 10 years.
The hero and heroine of the film are American and Japanese-American. They were childhood sweethearts and fell in love together. Then Pearl Harbor happened, the Japanese in America were sent to concentration camps, and the two of them were forced to separate. To make matters worse, Americans generally hated the Japanese at the time. The enormous pressure makes it impossible for them to maintain their love at all.
Ten years later, the girl married the Japanese and returned to the island. Everything seems to have returned to the way it was. But in fact everything is different, hatred and suspicion are deeply rooted in everyone's heart. As soon as the dead were found, the Japanese were immediately arrested. Look at his face, prosecutors told the jury. His Japanese face seems to be the conclusive evidence.
The defense attorney said in his final argument, "I am shocked by what I have seen and heard. The weakness of human nature is passed on from generation to generation, and each of us is a victim of blind fear and prejudice."
Blind fear and prejudice, even without that war, such human weakness is still stuck in our hearts. Japanese fathers educate their sons in kendo, and Americans think they are trained to kill; Japanese mothers comb their daughter's hair and tell her that you will marry a good Japanese in the future. Blind fear and prejudice come from cultural differences. "Humans will always be keen to distinguish each other in order to protect their humanity." ("Robots in the Dawn") And war and hatred have magnified this human weakness and turned it into a demon, using it to tear human hearts and destiny.
The movie's poster reads "First love last forever", which seems to be a love-themed movie. It is true that some love cannot continue due to various irresistible reasons, but was it the irresistible reason that hindered their love in the first place? That's just a damn human weakness.
The defense attorney said to the male protagonist that an opportunity was needed to let go of the past, the hatred and love of the past.
After 9/11, Americans recalled the concentration camps they held the Japanese, proving that while humans have inherent weaknesses, they can be overcome. This is also the hope of our human development.
On the other side of the ocean today, it is sad that we are still dominated by this weakness. What is even more sad is that some people even use and incite this weakness of human nature to achieve the purpose of controlling society. No, that's not sad anymore. That is utter evil.
The film "Snowflakes Falling on the Cedar Trees" uses the lens very beautifully, and the editing is not revealing. The movie shows a lot of detail, especially in the memory part. About half of the movie is spent reminiscing about the past. However, there is no special prompt for switching between reality and memory. There is no fading in and out, no color change, and even a diffuser is not added. Just switch directly like this past. For ordinary viewers, it may be a little baffling. However, if you look closely, every jump is very careful. Memories are always triggered by a detail, and a word or look can bring people back to the past. And the language of the shots in the reality part and the recall part is different. The shots in the reality part are used very objectively, while the recollection part is a very conscious shot, often focusing on some small places, very realistically imitating people's memories.
The exterior scenery of the movie is very beautiful, the harbor, the forest, and the snow-capped mountains, I have some similar feeling of deja vu. A search on the Internet shows that the island in the story, San Piedro, is a fictional island located in the northern part of Puget Sound.
Puget Sound is the central part of Washington state, including the city of Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond, the headquarters of Microsoft. The northern part of this area is San Juan Island. Students who are still stuck in Redmond at this time can consider going there.
IMDB score of 6.6 (5799 votes), I give it an 8.
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