With the unique perspective of the film, it may now look like "Nanjing! Nanjing! "To glimpse the whole leopard's thinking is the originator, maybe this 2006 film is not a classic old film, I don't know if it is not old enough, or classic enough.
The American blockbuster ideas and personal heroism actually played a little hide-and-seek here, so many people, including the author, feel that it is not like the style of "Flags of the Fathers", so to speak, you said they are in "Father". After praising how tenacious Americans are, how strong, how united and courageous, how can they beat themselves in the foot in the "Iwo Jima Book". So it became a stagnant place in the film. What kind of nation is the Japanese? Is it tenacious not to admit defeat, or is it a weak lover? This is a very tangled question, at least I didn't see how many clear answers the director and screenwriter gave me in the movie.
Clint Eastwood is a very good director. There is no doubt that, not to mention the classic "The Bridge of Madison County", last year's family ethics suspense film "The Suspicious Cloud for Children" attracted constant applause. But I don't think it's the same for the handling of these two works. Suddenly remembering that Wong Kar-wai had encountered a bottleneck in the filming of "Evil East and West Poison", he handed over another work in the opposite direction-"East as the West". "Evil East and West Poison" is jerky and difficult to understand, and "Dong Cheng Xi Jiu" is a spoof of business. Although for Clint, his two works are naturally not comparable to Wong Kar-wai's two, the film originally existed for people's entertainment, although people later added some connotations and found that the effect was not bad. A movie without box office and applause is a failure. "The Flag of the Father" and the original "Evil and West Poison" are about the same. Few people can understand it. What is the meaning?
As for "Letter from Iwo Jima", the plot itself can be quite moving. Even if there is no faith as a main element of expression, it is worthy of everyone's praise to reflect the turbulent family affection and sincere dislike of war among the soldiers at the bottom. Even if the Japanese have committed heinous crimes against the Chinese, even if the Japanese soldiers are cruel and harsh to others, they still have a soft side after all. He whispered to the one he loved so much that the battlefield was filled with smoke, and that the brothers around him felt urgently depressed after they died in battle one by one. I used to be in "Nanjing! "Nanjing!" has written in the film review that the biggest killing in the war is not in blood and flesh, but in the human nature of both sides of the battle being pierced with a two-way bayonet. In the war, if you can leave a little nostalgia for your family and miss your lover, then it is already the most moving plot.
However, in the movie translated into "Iwo Jima Family Letter", I think the theme of the family letter is a little lighter, and it does not show the heavy friendship of the family letter. Clint wanted to express a kind of human brilliance in the war. I personally feel that I didn't perform well. The few soldiers with homesickness in the film feel that they are cowardly rather than cherishing their lives. Americans are also very funny. The two most humane commanders in the movie, General Kuribayashi and Kazuo Yamada, live in the United States all year round. Do they want to say that the Japanese lunatics are cold-blooded and fanatical, or they are timid and cowardly afraid of death. Only those who have been nurtured by our American culture in the United States are heroes with bloody human nature? This must not be answered.
It is an unfair attitude to look at World War II from an American perspective. No matter what the world war, the Americans always resorted to snipes and clams to fight fishermen for profit in order to make huge profits. If it were not for Japan's heart to be higher than the sky and want to swallow the United States, the United States would not be willing to lose such a good opportunity to make money. Even if this movie is the director of Eastwood who used to make a literary film that made people snot and tears, or the producer of Spielberg who made a fine movie of World War II such as "Schindler's List", how can it be impossible? This subject matter is objective and fair.
Just like you said, let the Chinese, even if the director Jia Zhangke or Zhang Yimou who counts money to cramp to be the director, the effect may be worse, because in the face of national problems, let us fight for war. The guilty party sings praises, although it seems that we are so qualified and culturally tolerant, but there is always no way to eliminate national prejudice.
This film should be made by the Japanese. Rather than working hard to make an award-winning and popular movie from an American perspective, Eastwood might as well just shoot your traditional glorious "Flags of Fathers". Two such jokes a year are not fair to such scripts and stories and that period of history. They have to kill 10 of you to die. Do you still praise them? I don’t think that a country like the United States, which just went crazy without being hit by the economic crisis, could be so tolerant. Maybe you say that culture knows no borders, please reserve the right to not believe me.
This kind of movie can only get the box office in the United States, and by the way, take the hypocritical works to Japan and take a look at Japan's patriotic wealth. Let the American audience sigh: "Wow, there are still one or two good Japanese people, after all, we have stayed in the United States." Let the Japanese audience sigh again: "Yoshi, yo, American thief. They have the quality and self-cultivation, and they are very good for our Yamato nation!" Uncle Ghost went to the cinema to watch this kind of movie when he came to China!
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