Is it the will of the country or your own?

Marley 2021-11-26 08:01:44

After watching the movie, I wanted to know the authenticity, so I searched for the information. The Tadao Kuribayashi mentioned in the film is a real person. He indeed went to Harvard in the United States and studied military affairs in the United States. He is indeed a rare "American Master" in the Japanese military. In 1945, he was responsible for commanding the battle guidance of Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima is Japan's inherent land, so if the U.S. forces hit Iwo Jima, it is equivalent to entering Japan. The Japanese authorities definitely want to fight to the death. Therefore, it is not impossible that even the bakers are on the battlefield mentioned in the film. After all, by the time of the Iwo Jima battle, the Japanese were basically called a dying struggle. It was mentioned in the film that the woman who came to conscript, she said that my husband and son were all on the battlefield. It means you don't want to ditch it, okay? Hurry up, your husband is also on the battlefield. Although it is an obligation to defend its own country, and I want to say that Japan is doing its own thing, but as a civilian, I feel very helpless. [Want to continue to live] This is the common wish of most people, right? It is because the perspective is Japanese. If you don't start a war, you won't be sent to the battlefield, right? That's why it makes me feel better to stay away from war. A society is diverse, and every individual is different. It is impossible for everyone to be a bad person. If we can watch this movie based on this, we will see another world. I believe the same was true in the Japanese army at that time. Every place was a microcosm of society. Just as some of us today are clamoring for war, and some of us long for peace. If the Japanese were all kamikaze squads at the time, it is estimated that there are no Japanese in the world now. The real Kuribayashi Tadado has dug a tunnel in Iwo Jima, which is more than 20 kilometers long, turning Iwo Jima into a fortress. He also ordered a ban on suicide assaults. The director also saw the confirmed letter left by Iwo Jima and came up with the idea of ​​making this movie. At that time, Japan must have such a suicide charge, otherwise Kuribayashi would not ban it, but it also confirms what I said above, certainly not every Japanese is so crazy. Of course, it's not that the Japanese are not crazy, you see a scene in the movie. The officer forced the soldiers to die, took a grenade and knocked them on their heads. With a loud noise, they would say goodbye to friends, family, and the world. Isn’t it crazy to force others to do this? Then he gave himself a shot without hesitation. Isn't that crazy enough? Survival is just the most basic biological movement of living beings, even a plant can do it. What makes these people so crazy? Isn't it the brainwashing of militarism? Kase Ryo yelled: Yankees are cowards, we are different, we are not afraid of death. How many people say this in their mouths, and then they are terrified at the moment when the final death is approaching. Many Japanese in the film are like this, it's just human nature. Shouldn’t the Americans be as afraid of being captured? Americans have fathers, mothers and friends. They just have different positions, apart from their positions, everyone is no different. If they weren't born in the war years, everyone would live in peace. In the movie, when Kuribayashi was in the United States, his friend asked him: Is it the will of the country or your own will. I believe Kuribayashi may have a choice. But people like the baker have no choice, right? For civilians like me, I just want the war to stay away from me. Even if the Japanese are not humans, other people who went to war are of flesh and blood.

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Extended Reading
  • Kennedy 2021-11-26 08:01:44

    Very documentary, hitting people's hearts

  • Ona 2021-11-26 08:01:44

    Although the Japanese samurai spirit and the enthusiasm for suicide by caesarean are treasured by the Japanese, in the eyes of Westerners it is nothing but "cowardice" and a cover for cowardice. The "cowardly" only sees the honor and disgrace in front of him, and can only regard honor and disgrace as more important than life. They fictitiously create a "noble" criterion, and regard this criterion supremely, and life has become a victim of these criteria. They are an unstable group, and no single person can do anything, because they have gone crazy collectively. If people want to "go beyond human beings and approach God," they can only destroy themselves in the process of self-deification. Clint Eastwood filmed this film from the Japanese point of view with a Western eye that is not too sensational. I don't think the word "anti-war" can sum up everything. great!

Letters from Iwo Jima quotes

  • General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: [Tadamichi turns up in time to stop Ito from beheading Saigo and Shimizu] I don't want you to kill my soldiers needlessly. Put down your sword. Put it down!

    [Ito sheathes his katana and salutes]

    General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: What's going on here?

    Lieutenant Ito: These men ran from Suribachi.

    General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Lt. Ito, I gave the order that all survivors retreat to the north caves.

    Lieutenant Ito: [embarrassed] I am very sorry, General. It's just... Suribachi... has fallen.

    [Tadamichi rushes to a cave opening and sees Mount Suribachi from a distance, with a U.S flag raised on the summit]

  • [door opens]

    Lead Woman: Congratulations! Your husband is going to war.

    Saigo: Thank you very much. I'm happy to serve the country.

    Lead Woman: [Lead Woman stares piercingly at Saigo and steps forward] Prayers for your eternal success at arms.

    Hanako: [desperately] I beg of you! We have only each other.

    Lead Woman: [Lead Woman shouts - scolding Hanako angrily] Mrs. Saigo! *This* is not the time.

    [firmly]

    Lead Woman: We have all sent our husbands and sons to war. We all have to do our part.

    [looking down at Hanako's baby bump, and then... sympathetically]

    Lead Woman: At least you'll have a little one to carry on your name.

    [Lead Woman bows with authority and walks away]