To be honest, I don’t really trust many historical movies, and I can’t fully believe in history, let alone a movie with history as the theme? However, I still watched it, because after all, Nanjing in 1937 was a pain that our nation could not heal. After all, we didn't know enough about the history of the past 70 years.
When the lights came on, I was a little unhappy, maybe even a little angry. It's for me of course, because I forget that movies are only movies after all, because I forget that I shouldn't get the historical truth I'm after in any one director's interpretation. I feel a little silly and fooled, although Lu Chuan seems to be sincere and serious.
Last night, I didn't feel as restless as I thought, and I couldn't sleep at night, but I washed and slept. Today, I read some of Lu Chuan's own elaborations, and also read a bunch of movie reviews with mixed reviews from big names and grassroots. Then, I knew where the problem might lie, because in this country, everyone has a Nanjing in 1937 in their hearts. When people walk out of the theater, they will use the Nanjing in their heart to set the Nanjing of Luchuan, and put it on the Nanjing in 1937. Those who are not good will say yes, those who are not good will criticize, and Lu Chuan's so-called Japanese soldier's point of view is likely to make many people feel helpless and bewildered.
According to Lu Chuan, what he wanted to express was to let us know what kind of enemies Nanjing faced in 1937. Did he do it? I have to say, he did it and he didn't do it - he showed us the bestiality of the Japs, which we haven't seen before in similar movies, but at the same time he was using the big Japanese The so-called human nature of the Imperial Army dissolves its outrageous animal nature. As a result, the movie became chaotic, even a little chaotic, and Lu Chuan seemed to have lost control of the movie he wrote and directed.
The released version is actually a mixed bag. As a whole, I don't think it's a successful movie, and if the whole is broken down into several different parts, there's still some good stuff in it. Therefore, I prefer to disassemble the film into two parts, a documentary and a feature film. Those paragraphs that are documentary street battles and massacres are solid, while those stories that go hand in hand are fragile. For example, Although Lu Chuan said that the passage of Teacher Jiang claiming "husband" time and time again has its origins, but when Teacher Jiang said "shoot me" to the devils in this passage, the story lacks sufficient logic to make People can't believe it. It is said that there is also a director's cut version of more than three hours. Perhaps in that legendary version, Guizi Jiaochuan's final suicide will be more logical, and Mr. Tang's transformation will convince me, but now, the released version cannot be Convince me to accept these stories.
Therefore, in the face of Lu Chuan's Nanjing, I am very contradictory, because on the one hand, I must admit that the documentary part has indeed broken through the deficiencies of previous films of the same theme, and has a "blockbuster" temperament; on the other hand, I have to say that the story part shows Speculation and pettiness. When this kind of contradiction is put in front of us, in fact, we will find that this is still a commercial film, because you can clearly see its compromises to different markets, and you can clearly see that it strives for this compromise. Balanced but incompetent embarrassment. Lu Chuan really got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shoot this subject, but in "Nanjing! Nanjing! "In front of you, you have to admit that he wasted this opportunity. Movies are the art of regret. Once the opportunity is wasted, there will be no such opportunity, only eternal regret.
However, what we can expect and must admit is that Lu Chuan will achieve commercial success because of this film, because Nanjing in 1937 affected the nerves of this nation, and people can praise or scold the film made by Lu Chuan. , all after walking out of the theater. Therefore, we can confidently look forward to Lu Chuan's streaking after the box office exceeds 150 million. So, when Lu Chuan and his actor team traveled non-stop to promote the promotion, and when the local media constantly broke out all kinds of lace news in the promotion, "Nanjing! Nanjing! The power of "" has been dispelled, and the sincerity and reflection that Lu Chuan once tried to make people believe has also been dispelled. - Does such a movie still need such a shuttle promotion in our country?
Lu Chuan said that the reason why he designed a Japanese festival at the end of the film that had never happened in history was to express the cultural destruction that war brought to our nation, in addition to the physical destruction of the massacre. I have to admit that the Japanese dance accompanied by Japanese drums is indeed shocking and deafening enough. But I also have to admit that the bloodstains of Tucheng have already been dispelled in the film by the figure of the devil Jiaochuan lying on the grass after committing suicide, and the faces of the two Chinese soldiers, one large and one small, who were let go by Jiaochuan, suddenly appeared on the faces. The smile also seems to be dispelling the heavy burden brought to us by the 300,000 dead in Nanjing. I would rather believe that the smiles on the faces of the two Chinese soldiers are Lu Chuan's interpretation of nationality, but it seems not. In the combination of the two passages of the Japanese celebration and Kadokawa's release, on the one hand we see some kind of warning, on the other hand we see the so-called peace and the so-called forgiveness, and this, like the whole movie, is still contradictory.
Every Chinese has a Nanjing in their hearts, and Lu Chuan also has one in their hearts. Unlike us, Lu Chuan can show us Nanjing in his heart in a movie, but we can only recite it in our own hearts. Lu Chuan gave us a drumbeat of devils, let us not forget Nanjing in 1937, let us remember that others were not soundly asleep beside our couch, but, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "It seems that it is already reconciling the contradictions between the two nations and two countries.
In the cinema last night, two women quarreled loudly during the movie, because the one in the back row burst out laughing at a certain passage, and the one in the front row angrily accused her of laughing before such a movie The voice came, so the two women who thought they represented justice and the two women who thought they represented indifference were arguing fiercely as if no one else was there. At that moment, I felt very sad—for them, for "Nanjing! Nanjing! ", for those well-known and unknown souls who died in Nanjing in 1937.
A question that must be faced is, if there is another war like that, will the tragedy of Nanjing in 1937 be repeated on our soil?
A fact that must be remembered is that when Lu Chuan told us that Japanese devils also have human nature, a secret telegram sent by the Nazi German embassy in Nanjing to the German Foreign Ministry told us: "It is not the Japanese who committed the crime. Man, or the Japanese, but the entire Imperial Japanese Army. It's a beast machine in motion." - Need more?
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