Only the dead have seen the end of the war. －Plato
just finished reading "Iwo Jima Family Book" and thought it was filmed by the Japanese himself. It turned out to be a film by the old American cowboy Eastwood. I feel that I rarely see Japanese making films about World War II. Even countries that are open-minded and full of A-films are reluctant to touch their own scars and cannot view their own history correctly. This may be related to the fact that the United States did not abolish the Japanese emperor system at the beginning. .
When we resent the Japanese for not being able to treat history correctly, the Chinese are also making similar mistakes. It is always easy to blame others. Facing one's own history, they lack the self-confidence to face up, and deliberate evasion and deliberate concealment are all falsehoods. Speaking of the rise of Japanese militarism, China does not want to dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty and still unable to escape the influence of the autocratic consciousness for two thousand years. Some people say, what did you do in those ten years? Does it have anything to do with you? Does it have anything to do with the present? Does it have anything to do with China, which is bound to be strong in the future? These words should be used to ask those who are worried about the restoration of Japanese militarism.
In reflection, Westerners still appear more confident. Especially the Germans, although they have not made any blockbuster films, no matter their understanding and the current degree of democracy, they are currently the most advanced in the world. But recently, I really want to have a bad relationship with China, and I don't know if it is related to the Three Gorges interview. South Korea’s reflection and recognition are also worthy of respect!
Let's talk about the movie. The movie focuses on war from a human perspective. Both sides believed that they were the incarnation of justice, demonizing each other, and when they read the family letter of the other soldier, they realized that they all knew each other from their mother's instructions. I remember the epitaph written by a mother for her son was that he was just an ordinary soldier for the country, but for a mother, he was the whole world. From a personal point of view, war is always helpless. Soldiers are nothing more than pawns for the government to play with politics. War is nothing but a game played by a few politicians in the name of the country. The price is the bloodshed and sacrifice of ordinary soldiers and ordinary people. The saddest thing is the heroes who regard death as home, and most of them are the spiritual prisoners who have been fooled the most. The slogan is always yelled to others, and even I am touched after chanting it for a long time. Don’t shout out slogans like liberating XX. I think it’s better to liberate ourselves first, hold high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, liberate the mind, seek truth from facts, and then liberate the mind!
What needs to be considered is that the protagonist in the film desperately resists in order to defend the Japanese mainland or for the dignity of the Japanese soldiers. What is the ending? The United States dropped two atomic bombs without hesitation. Should the Japanese remember him, learn from him, or reflect on it? In other words, sometimes the seemingly sublime spirit is actually a kind of pedantry and a dagger that penetrates one's own people!
Think about Chinese war movies, which always have a strong educational mission, telling us what justice is, what is right, and what is wrong, for fear that we will go the wrong way. Don’t talk about revolutionary films from far away, nor on "The Great Battle" in the 90s. Just look at "Heroes" and you will know who the so-called filmmakers are watching now. The angle of view is always high-ranking, the country, the world, and the collective people at every turn. A few people are insulting the IQ and EQ of the majority. It is tolerable, and which is tolerable. Like "Apple," they think that ordinary people are obscene, and there is no classification system in China, and parents are not allowed to accompany them. Anti-pornography is used as a tool to suppress speech, and anti-corruption and advocacy has become a fig leaf for political struggles. Therefore, Zhuangzi said: The saint is immortal, but there are more thieves! And "Assembly Number" also don't know why it can enter the "News Network" for publicity, which is weird.
To be honest, Chinese movies are not made for ordinary people, but for the censorship department, and they are used to film leading horses. Hehe, the real audience of mentally handicapped Chinese movies is the cleverest group of people. I remember that when "Titanic" was staged, our top leader led all the standing committee members to watch it, telling them that decadent capitalism also talks about sacrifice, class struggle, and learning how to shoot the main theme. Ten years later, Chinese film directors are still mentally handicapped. I believe that the sixth, seventh, and 108th generation directors trained in this way still cannot escape the mentally handicapped situation.
Those who know me say I'm worried, those who don't know me say what I want. I can feel that I have said too much, and it is me who needs introspection.
The background music is good.
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