Spielberg-style epic

Alfreda 2022-03-20 09:01:44

Spielberg belongs to the director of the big production, and he is of Jewish descent, and has a unique understanding of how to show pain and depression in a grand historical chapter.
The 11-year-old child of the protagonist seems to be our Batman as a child.
It was a movie I watched last night that made me enjoy it until the end.

The 11-year-old Jamie is the child of a wealthy British family living in Shanghai. Although he is British, he has never returned to the distant motherland. In fact, China is his hometown, and his family has always been rich and high-class people. . On the eve of 8.13 in Shanghai, the family went to a friend's house to participate in a high-class party. Little Jamie, who was crazy about fighter jets, discovered the strange little Japanese army for the first time because he threw the model plane on the other side of the garden. In the evening, they went back to the Peace Hotel on the Bund to sleep. He woke up in the morning bored and rushed to the Japanese warship to look for the searchlights, but he was attacked by artillery fire. Then he escaped from the Peace Hotel built by Jewish merchants in a chaotic manner. Only when he reached the street did he realize that Shanghai was in complete chaos! Crowds came and went, their cars were run over by Japanese tanks, they had to walk, and they were separated.

Jamie went home according to what his mother had called before the separation. The house had been pasted with white paper requisitioned by the Japanese army, and there was no one inside. The mother's bedroom was also a mess, and there were traces of fighting on the floor. He went downstairs and found that the Chinese servants were Stealing furniture, asking about the whereabouts of his parents, but getting a slap in the face. Then he was alone and didn't dare to leave the house until he had nothing to eat or drink, so he took a big ocean and rode his bike to the street. He found that the rich neighbors were loaded on the truck and pulled away. Those neighbors recognized him and wanted to pull him. , but couldn't catch up, and then had to follow what an old man said, ran to the road and saw the little Japanese soldier, saluted and shouted surrender! Naturally, the Japanese army directly ignored it. The result was that the bombers robbed the bicycle and leather shoes. Later, he ran out of the alley with bare feet and was almost hit by a truck. But since then, he has met American sailors and has food, but he said that his parents were rich. Useless, the American sailors wanted to sell him, and as a result, no one wanted to consider throwing him.

He had an idea to take two American sailors and drunkards to his mansion to find foreign wine. How could he know that the mansion had become a Japanese samurai dojo, so they were beaten and dragged to Zhabei concentration camp. There starved to death, the American sailors let him steal the dead people's things, until one day the Japanese devils asked everyone to gather, and then picked the young and middle-aged people who were in good health to get on the truck. The officer who went to Japan led the way to Suzhou, because he knew the way, but the little Japanese driver didn't.

As a result, when they arrived in Suzhou, they were dumbfounded. They were freed, but they were transferred to another, larger concentration camp. The young and middle-aged people went to move stone construction works, but there are more people here, and they can also grow food and eat. , little jamie met the Red Cross doctor and a group of American prisoners, and then he lived a happy life with his cleverness, and met a Japanese child who also loved airplanes. The reservists, and because of the lack of maternal love and a very close relationship with a wife in a British house, the days passed by like this, because the British and American concentration camps and the Japanese air force barracks were close together, the non-commissioned officers of the Japanese barracks often came to vent their anger, but this The non-commissioned officer is a bit melancholy, not crazy, so their life is quite peaceful, and this kind of life lasts until the US military comes over, little Jamie has a new idol, the Japanese army retreats, and they are also driven away. Japanese children Finally became an air force death squad, but the plane couldn't start. They rested in a room full of Western furniture abandoned by the Japanese army on the way. A young British woman with little Jamie died of illness here. Little Jamie did not continue on the road with the brigade, but pretended to be dead and then Back to the previous concentration camp, the concentration camp at this time was like his empty mansion. Fortunately, there was food dropped by the air. The Japanese child went crazy with a knife next to the plane with a saber, but he recognized the little jamie and gave it to him. Jamie eats oranges, but jamie can't peel them, so he prepares to cut them with a saber. This is an American prisoner who used to drive by. Thinking that the Japanese child is going to kill jamie, he shoots and kills the Japanese child. Jamie cried and wanted to save the Japanese child. In his mouth, he shouted nervously that i can bring anyone back... until the American army came to rescue him.

At the end of the story, a group of parents came to look for the separated children. Jamie's father passed by him without recognizing him, but was finally recognized by his mother. At first, Jamie just touched his mother's face and hair in a daze, and then finally hugged each other, but this At that time, there were no tears in Jamie's eyes, and he just stared coldly ahead. . .

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Empire of the Sun quotes

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners, protected by the diplomatic security of the International Settlement, continued to live as they had lived since the British came here in the 19th century and built in the image of their own country... built banking houses, hotels, offices, churches and homes that might have been uprooted from Liverpool or Surrey. Now their time was running out. Outside Shanghai the Japanese dug in and waited... for Pearl Harbor.

  • Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now.

    Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?