war in children's eyes

Cyrus 2022-03-23 09:01:53

Starring Christian Bale. The famous film directed by Steven Spielberg in 1987. Adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel, the film not only tells us the various experiences of a British teenager in the Japanese occupation of World War II, but also expresses to the audience a process of yearning and pursuing peace.

Jim was born in the family of a British businessman in Shanghai, and he lived a life of worry-free food and clothing since he was a child. Jim has one wish: to become a fighter pilot and fly to the sky with his beloved fighter; when World War II broke out, the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, although Jim He was separated from his family and was sent to a Japanese concentration camp, but he saw the "Zero" fighter plane he had long admired. The more than three years of concentration camp life made Jim, who was naive before, a little more mature. The truth of the concentration camp is that he can do anything with food, and his dealings with people have become much smoother than before, so that even the Japanese army sergeant looked at him differently. In this way, Jim accompanied his dream of flying through the most difficult part of the concentration camp. Days, and finally after the war reunited with his parents who loved him dearly. It can be said that this is a very worth watching film.

Director Spielberg re-examined the war through the eyes of a child. Although the war scenes were not heavily rendered in the film, the influence of the demonic machine of war on the entire human race was deeply imprinted on every human being. In the hearts of one audience member, there was such a fragment: One morning when the sun was rising, a group of "Kamikaze" extermination team members were holding a lift-off ceremony at the airport next to the concentration camp. The whole tragic ceremony seemed to touch the air at the airport Little Jim, who witnessed all this by the barbed wire fence, followed him in a military salute, and sang an English song sung in middle school loudly.

It has to be said that Spielberg is the most successful director of commercial films. The film is deeply moving without being obscure. However, those who are anti-Japanese should not watch it. This film examines the war from a high angle, and neither demeans nor praises anyone. Many episodes of the Japanese army are also quite tragic.

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  • Asa 2021-11-20 08:01:41

    Procrastination and hypocrisy, seemingly compassionate but vague, Lao Si always took these war tragedies to pretend to be deep and excessively speculative and sensational. Don’t you think this dead child is particularly annoying? Ugly, brainless, hyperactive, neurotic, second, harp, who has such a child is so troublesome, Bell also looked like a disgust when he was a child. PS: The Chinese in the background are more uglier than the other, chilling, just like the Chinese in the eyes of foreigners. Is your sister's film really worth such a high score? ? ? ?

  • Charlie 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    The child played by Bell is a big idiot. The pure kind. The most classic scene in the whole movie is the big mouth that the Chinese nurse gave the child. It's so fucking shocking! The Chinese people stand up! !

Empire of the Sun quotes

  • Basie: It's at the beginning and end of war that we have to watch out. In between, it's like a country club.

  • British Party Guest: Lockwood's invited a Chink.