Sima Pingbang
watched "Nanjing!" Nanjing! ” and “The Diary of Rabe”,
I deeply feel that the sadness of our nation is not only the slaughter of foreigners in the past,
but also that after more than 70 years, we still have no sincerity and courage to restore the historical truth of the slaughter,
whether it is social The reason is still personal.
This kind of cover-up and hypocritical expression is shameful. The
Nanjing Massacre is a public event that can no longer be huge and embodies profound national feelings.
Personal cognition has always been insignificant in front of this. Yes ,
only those Chinese directors who are beyond their own means will jump here, trying to make a name for themselves...
I think the real and healthy state of film criticism in China should be like this:
film critics are free to criticize.
The director and the main creator accepted it calmly.
Even if a movie is once again scolded by the people as a Chinese movie like "Lust, Caution", the film bureau should not ban or block it.
In such an atmosphere, China will definitely produce good movies.
·one·
But now, such as "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Technically speaking, a film like this is indeed a representative of the progress of Chinese films. I especially like Cao Yu's photography, the music is also good, and the actors' performances are all brilliant - but there is still a problem with its values. , I don't know whether such a problem should be placed on the director's head, or on the head of the Chinese producer or even the film censorship agency, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Can pass the review, and it is also a "recommended film for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 2009", but I watched it twice in the cinema and couldn't find the reason why it should be a "recommended film", but I feel that the Japanese film censorship agency should List it as a "Recommended Movie" -- but then again, "Nanjing! Nanjing! In the phenomenon of Kadokawa Masao in ", just less than half a year after the outbreak of Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China (the Lugou Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937), a Japanese soldier shot himself in Nanjing because he killed the Chinese. The Japanese regarded it as an insult to the spirit of Bushido, and some so-called experts did not say, "Nanjing! Nanjing! Are all the images in the film based on historical materials at that time? Then I would like to ask, what is the historical basis for the scene of Kadokawa's suicide?
There are indeed some Japanese devils who blamed themselves for committing too many crimes in Nanjing and China and may even commit suicide in order to atone for their crimes, but there are historical records, all of which were after the war. The old man was truly repenting, but even to the extent of Dong Shiro, he did not choose to commit suicide to apologize to the Chinese people.
Therefore, Kadokawa Masao's suicide is really "Nanjing! Nanjing! "A major failure, the film's value orientation deviates.
The so-called universal or universal value does not mean that there is only one value in the world, but the value of mutual respect for each other, "Nanjing! Nanjing! ” chose a film method to show the historical facts of the massacre from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers who participated in the war and slaughtered Japanese soldiers, but the blood of the Chinese people’s pedantic, hypocritical and narcissistic blood flowed in the bones of the Japanese soldier. Think about it, If "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Kadokawa can become a typical example of the Japanese invasion of China, can the Japanese stay in China for 8 years? I'm afraid 8 months is not enough to stay.
·two·
For this reason, at the Beijing Normal University premiere of another German-directed "Rabe Diary" a few days ago, I asked Curator Tang of the Rabe Memorial Hall of Nanjing University, as far as he knew, at Nanjing University In the "six bloody weeks" of the massacre, is there really a Japanese devil like Kadokawa Masao, who can blame himself for killing China and commit suicide? Director Tang said "absolutely not found."
My analysis is this, you see it right: if there was indeed a Kadokawa-style character who apologized to the Chinese on the spot by suicide in the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese army at that time would never allow this kind of "imperial soldier" If the "image shamed" is recorded, it will definitely be covered up before it is too late. Therefore, there is no real Kadokawa in the historical records. I have seen "Nanjing!" Nanjing! ”, I said, this is actually Lu Chuan. Lu Chuan participated in the Nanjing Massacre in person and used Jiao Chuan to convey his feelings.
But today I heard another saying, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "The Chinese soldier "Lu Jianxiong" played by Liu Ye and "Jiaochuan Zhengxiong" together is "Lu Chuan", and the combined name happens to be "Lu Chuanxiong". It's a joke, but it's really interesting - that Lu Chuan who resisted was slaughtered early, and that Lu Chuan who thought about the Japanese persisted to the end and committed suicide to atone for his sins, some called "hero".
Let's just say "bear".
In the eyes of the bear buns, there is only the difference between the big bear bun and the little bear bun in the world, that's all.
The Japanese are so arrogant. The Japanese government has not pleaded guilty for so many years in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Therefore, Chinese people who are good at putting themselves in their shoes, such as Director Lu, jumped out to atone for the devils, but you don’t know, Masao Kadokawa, who has been rewritten in this way, actually insulted the Japanese Bushido, and the Japanese really bought your account.
Therefore, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "If you really say that what you are shooting is true history, you still need to provide a lot of evidence.
Because no matter how beautiful the packaging is, it can't contain the ugliness of a pseudo-history, which is a big trouble.
·Three·
From "Nanjing! Nanjing! ” to “The Diary of Rabe”, two films about the Nanjing Massacre were released in China at one time. This is a very interesting phenomenon. We can’t help but compare the two films. To the public, this is even a In the two episodes of a series of movies, Wang Zhonglei, the boss of Huayi Brothers, is quite representative. He is an investor in "Rabe Diary", but he still hopes "Nanjing!" Nanjing! " got a high box office, because the director is Chinese, and he hopes that the Chinese director will win.
National sentiment is always shared by everyone, and so do I.
But after watching two movies, I believe that this simple national emotion may not be satisfied, because you will find that you have watched "Nanjing!" about the Nanjing Massacre. Nanjing! " and "Rabe's Diary" two correct answers (A, Answer) basically exist in "Rabe's Diary", while "Nanjing! Nanjing! " is only: 1. Asking questions (Q, Question); 2. Giving false answers.
For example, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Resistance" is often mentioned in the propaganda, but I have watched "Nanjing!" twice. Nanjing! ", did not find much resistance, the resistance of the Kuomintang soldiers was eliminated 30 minutes into the film, and the biggest resistance later was the election of "volunteer prostitutes" in the security zone managed by Rabe to comfort the Japanese. Was there "resistance" during the comforting process? The movie didn't explain it, maybe it was filmed, and it was edited again. Hey, China's film censorship system.
There is actually very little Chinese resistance to the Japanese army in "Rabe's Diary", but there is one episode that I appreciate. The younger brother of Lang Shu (played by Zhang Jingchu), a student at Jinling Women's University, was knocked down by two Japanese when his sister was knocked down. The two devils were shot and killed in an instant. In the real historical records, the resistance of Chiang Kai-shek's army after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing was indeed minimal. Brother Langshu's "feat" is not entirely from history, but it is full of rationality.
Therefore, making "resistance" a theme of a certain Nanjing Massacre movie is a false proposition. If there is resistance, more than 300,000 Chinese people would have been massacred. As far as I know, the Japanese army created the Nanjing Massacre. The three sufficient reasons are: 1. The resistance of the Chinese army in the previous Battle of Songhu was too strong, and the Japanese wanted to retaliate, 2. The resistance of the Kuomintang army in Nanjing was too weak, and 3. The resistance of the Chinese people did not give up because of the official And stop; so the Japanese army is trying to use a massacre to completely overwhelm the Chinese government, the Chinese army and the Chinese people.
Not like "Nanjing! Nanjing! "The first thing is that the Japanese soldiers were overwhelmed by the death of several Chinese people.
Therefore, regarding the Q of "resistance", "Nanjing! Nanjing! "A is weak, while "Rabe Diaries" A is convincing.
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John HD Rabe, a former member of the Nazi Party, is also said to be the leader of Siemens in Nanjing (which controls the power system in Nanjing), and he is also said to be the general representative of the Nazi Party in Nanjing , how many Chinese did he save or protect in the Nanjing Massacre, this is "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Another big Q proposed.
"Nanjing! Nanjing! ” obviously depreciates Rabe’s role and ability. For example, although the “International Security Zone” in the movie is shown as being led by Rabe, he actually only took away the secretary who rescued Mr. Tang when he left Nanjing in February 1938. Wife Tang Zhoushi and a Kuomintang officer who was greedy for life and fear of death (the image is very trivial), Rabelin knelt down to the Chinese people inside when he left the safe area. Although the filming was tragic, it cannot be denied that Lu Chuan was secretly telling Rabe that he was safe. All the Chinese people in the district stayed under the butcher knife of the Japanese servants. Later, Mr. Tang (Fan Wei), Rabe's secretary who became a Han's wife, was also shot by the Japanese officer Itian. Is Mr. Tang's death understandable? Another metaphor of Lu Chuan, that is, all those who became Chinese people were killed by Japan. Could it be possible for other Chinese who did not become Chinese people to be spared?
In this sense, Lu Chuan used the movie to deny John Rabe, or to reveal that Rabe only saved two Chinese people, that's all.
Of course, to save one person is to save the whole world.
"Rabe's Diary" is a film made by Germans. At the end of the film, it cannot avoid the historical fact that Rabe returned to China in February 1938, but it explained the following to "Rabe's return to China": 1. Under the protection of Rabe , 200,000 Chinese were spared from the Japanese army in the international security zone, and Mr. Rabe left Nanjing when the embassies of various countries returned to Nanjing one after another, when the large-scale massacre by the Japanese army (the "Bloody Six Weeks") ended , the new massacre could not be completed in the eyes of the diplomats of various countries. Of course, after Mr. Rabe left Nanjing, whether the Chinese who lived under the protection of the safety zone were also killed by the Japanese, this is not the movie. Exactly, because the name of the movie is "The Diary of Rabe".
To this end, I asked Curator Tang of the Rabe Memorial Hall of Nanjing University: How many Chinese did Rabe save in Nanjing? Curator Tang showed me several pieces of evidence on the spot, one was a certificate about Rabe’s rescue signed by 602 Chinese people, and the other was about 20 refugee camps in Nanjing when Rabe was about to leave. These more than 20 refugee camps have resettled about 200,000 Chinese refugees.
In other words, Mr. Rabe did indeed save the Chinese, and he saved many more Germans than Schindler did.
"Schindler's List" is a film made by the Jewish Spielberg in order to express his gratitude to Schindler who saved more than 1,000 Jews during World War II, because he did save so many Jews in historical facts, but in "Nanjing" ! Nanjing! ", although Rabe appeared, but Lu Chuan's film language objectively denied Mr. Rabe's rescue of the Chinese back then. As a Chinese, I really feel hot on my face for this ungrateful behavior.
Or, if "Nanjing! Nanjing! "The ancestors of the creators did have a feud with Rabe. You can just avoid Rabe in the movie. Now that you have him in your movie, you must express gratitude, otherwise it will be too unconscionable.
I believe that the "Rabe Diaries" filmed by the Germans will also have a "Rabe perspective" inclination, but just as "Schindler's List" was filmed by Jews rather than Germans, in this case the Chinese People, who have been saved by others, have the qualifications to take the perspective of negation and avoidance.
This is good, it is clearly the Japanese who created the Nanjing Massacre, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "But eulogizes the humanity of a Japanese soldier who committed suicide because he shot a Chinese, but denies a German who has saved thousands of Chinese lives. Is it worthy?
·Wu ·
In addition, on the saving role of John Rabe in the Nanjing Massacre, "Nanjing! Nanjing! There is also a huge technical difference between "Rabe's Diary" and
"Nanjing!" Nanjing! ", Rabe's identity is vague and low-level. He once said to several Japanese soldiers that he wanted to see "their generals" and was mocked by the Japanese soldiers. He is just a German who has a Nazi identity and can protect himself. Rabe's "international security zone" has been dealing with middle and lower-level Japanese officers like Ida and Kadokawa; in "Rabe's Diary", Rabe's object of dealing is Hatohiko Asaka played by Kagawa Teruyuki, a man who could All the Japanese royal family who lived and died in Nanjing, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese occupation forces, and Japanese officers of the same rank as Hatohiko Asaka - according to historians, the politics of German Johan Rabe after the Japanese occupation of Nanjing One of the identities is equivalent to the "Mayor of Nanjing". The former Chinese mayor handed over this position to Rabe. This identity is one of the main damages that the "international security zone" led by him can be protected from Japanese occupation as much as possible. "Nanjing! Nanjing! ", the only thing Rabe can rely on is the identity of a Nazi party member.
"Nanjing! Nanjing! "Is such a downgrade of Rabe's identity in line with the movie's ultimate downplay of Rabe's saving role?
I personally like the plot of Rabe's Diary shortly after the opening, when Rabe used a huge Nazi flag to cover up a large number of Chinese refugees to protect them from the Japanese bombing. The office space was also covered under the Nazi flag to protect the Chinese people inside - this plot seems to be educating those contemporary Chinese who only know "human nature" and do not know about other people. "Nation" and "human nature" are actually two different things. There are two levels of things, these two things sometimes intersect and sometimes parallel, "Nazi" may be a bad word for Germans and Europeans, but it still did some good things to the Chinese (such as Germany at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War) Aid to China), there is no absolute good or absolute bad, and what we have to remember is the true brilliance of human nature in all "nations," "isms," and "politics."
So, I listed this episode as the greatest shot of Chinese cinema in my eyes in 2009.
·Lu·
About the Nanjing Massacre, the extreme form of its "massacre" is the famous "Hundred People Beheading Incident". Although it was extremely tragic and difficult for a Chinese to accept calmly, I always believed that Chinese directors had an obligation to expose the inhumane crime against humanity committed by the Japanese at that time. Nanjing! " expectations.
One Hundred People Killing, recorded in history, refers to the period from the end of November to December 10, 1937, on the way of Shanghai's attack on Nanjing until the eve of the Nanjing Massacre, two Japanese officers, Second Lieutenant Mukai Toshiaki and Second Lieutenant Noda Takeshi, whoever killed 100 Chinese first was the winner. competition. In the end, Mukai Toshiaki killed 106 people and beat Noda Takeshi who killed 105 people. Later, they were found and tried by the Nanjing Military Tribunal. Both of them admitted the charges and were executed by firing squad on January 28, 1948 at the Yuhuatai execution ground outside the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing.
According to the news published by Tokyo Nikki Shimbun on December 13, 1937 (the day after the Nanjing Massacre): Toshiaki Mukai, a warrior of Katagiri Force, a participant in a rare competition such as the "Hundred-Man Slashing Competition" targeting Nanjing , Noda Takeshi two second lieutenants, in the 10th Zijinshan Raiders battle score is 106 to 105. At noon on the 10th, the two second lieutenants met with Japanese swords with incomplete blades.
Noda said: "Hey, I cut 105, how about you?" Mukai said, "I got 106!"... Two second lieutenants: "Ahahaha..." In the end, I didn't even ask who killed 100 people first. , "It counts as a tie game, how about re-cutting 150." The two agreed, and from the 11th (the day the Nanjing Massacre began), the competition for 150 beheadings will begin. At noon on the 11th, Second Lieutenant Mukai, who was chasing and killing the defeated generals in Zijin Mountain near Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum, talked about the ending of the "Hundred People Killing Game"...
But "Nanjing! Nanjing! "There is no one hundred people beheaded.
And in The Rabe Diaries.
In "Rabe's Diary", Rabe's driver, Lao Zhang, was dragged to a hidden place and beheaded because he offended a Japanese army officer. Rabe followed after him and saw a pile of hills cut down by the Japanese army from the gap in the wooden fence. The head of the Chinese people, including Lao Zhang's, the film does not directly say that the executioners are "Second Lieutenant Jing Tominaki and Noda Takeshi", but it is obviously that the director wants to use a way to reproduce this historical fact that did exist at that time, Or because such horrific killings are rare in the Nazi "history of murder" known to Germans.
I think it is necessary to pay tribute to the German director and screenwriter Frian Gallenbert for revealing this history of the massacre of the Chinese people by the Japanese army so sincerely, which is what Lu Chuan should have done.
And he showed too much power.
Because every Chinese who uses the history of the Nanjing Massacre as material, you have the obligation to express it and accuse it. This is your responsibility as a Chinese.
In this matter, "Nanjing! Nanjing! "A" is zero, while "Rabe's Diary" has an A is full.
· Seven ·
"Nanjing! Nanjing! "The accusation of the atrocities of the Japanese army, the most outstanding place is the persecution of Chinese women (and Japanese women) by the Japanese army, that is, forced or sexual violence. The movie has always used "naked girls" as a gimmick to attract audiences. It is said that in the earliest script, Gao Yuanyuan, who played Teacher Jiang, was also forced to be scolded, but Gao has seen the filming method of the movie and said nothing.
But "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Although the Japanese army was accused of showing the rape of Chinese women by the Japanese army, at first, Lu Chuan's original intention was not to accuse the Japanese army directly, but the "war" itself, because Yuriko, a Japanese comfort woman whom Kadokawa fell in love with, was in the film. In the end, she also died in a comfort camp. The "internationalization" of the female victim's nationality suddenly downplayed the film's direct criticism of the Japanese military; )'s death was entirely due to the "sympathy" of the Japanese devils Kadokawa and Ita for Chinese women. Kadokawa shot Teacher Jiang in the head when she was about to be dragged out by the Japanese army for forced marriage. Therefore, he was punished for "violating military orders", and he was able to continue to rescue two Chinese soldiers, one old and one young, from Nanjing (no less than Rabe rescued by Jiao Chuan). After Tang Xiaomei was shot by Yitian, Yitian said, "She It's very beautiful, it's better to die than this." His grandmother, were the Japanese soldiers who raped and killed Chinese women in Nanjing all so loving? Since they are so loving, why did they do so many cruel things?
This "his grandma's", I'm not scolding the Japanese!
Obviously, killing is killing, but in "Nanjing! Nanjing! "In "Killing" is turned into a proof of the humanity and conscience of Japanese soldiers, and this kind of thinking actually comes from the creation of Chinese film workers, I killed you because I love you, because I sympathize with you, so I am noble, so I have humanity.
A buddy in Harbin sent me a text message after watching the movie:
The Nanjing Massacre has killed 300,000 Chinese, "Nanjing! Nanjing! 》will piss off another 300,000 Chinese people!
I have nothing to say.
·8·
Another contribution to "Rabe's Diary" - the article is written up to now, it is not about the pros and cons of the two films, but about the contribution of another film - is to reproduce the escape from the war After the trial of the Japanese imperial war criminal Hatohiko Asakamiya for the crimes.
Asaka Palace Hatohiko (1887-1981) was played by the Japanese actor Kagawa Teruyuki who participated in "The Devil Has Come" in "Rabe Diary". He is also called Prince Asaka Palace, the uncle of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. The eighth son of Prince Kyunomiya Asahiko. He was appointed commander and lieutenant general of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force on December 2, 1937. On December 7, Hatohiko Asaka rushed to the Nanjing front line and signed a secret order within a few days: "Kill all the prisoners!" He also ordered his subordinates to change. The commander-in-chief of the Central China Front of the Japanese invading army, Matsui Ishinehara, ordered all Japanese troops to enter the city and arrange their own accommodation, which further expanded the massacre and various atrocities. Since then, Hatohiko Asaka has successively issued a series of killing orders. The simplest and most direct one is only four words "kill all", which directly led to the heinous beasts after the Japanese army entered the city. In the movie, I deeply feel our nation's sorrow when the Japanese army captured Nanjing, the strategy of the Japanese Supreme Command was to destroy the Chinese people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit by brutally attacking Nanjing, forcing Chiang to surrender. A strategic spirit. After the war, Hatohiko Asaka escaped punishment by virtue of his special status as a member of the royal family, and later became the president of the "Japan Golf Club".
"Rabe's Diary" is the first massacre film in history that directly exposed the identity of Asaka Miyazaki as a war criminal, allowing the hypocritical Japanese royal family to directly show the crimes in the history of aggression against China. This perspective has actually made a big breakthrough. The limitations of history and reality, which are closely plagued by diplomatic relations and political interests, also show that the "indictment" of Chinese films about the Nanjing Massacre in the past is far from enough.
I don't know "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Have the creators of "Have studied this kind of history, have such a sense of responsibility to bring back the atrocities of the Japanese army one after another, such as "The Crime of Asaka Miyagi Hirohiko", to the world? The reason for "forgiveness" or "harmony" is turned into a big one, and pouring the wine glass of the 300,000 compatriots who were murdered more than 70 years ago to pour the block in their hearts?
Or just ignorance.
· Nine · It
is the sentence that was said at the beginning of the article: it is the Chinese folk who once again made a movie such as "Nanjing! Nanjing! "The film bureau should not ban or block a Chinese film like "Lust, Caution". With this kind of tolerance, there will be a healthy environment for the growth of Chinese films.
However, it is said that the last subtitle of "Rabe's Diary" has a paragraph on the German version that originally meant "The Nanjing Massacre is still not recognized by the Japanese government." "The Nanjing Massacre is still not recognized by the Japanese right-wing forces." The original intention of the revision is said to be for the needs of "China-Japan relations".
In fact, the more "international relations" and "historical issues" cover up the truth, the more realistic the backlash will be, just like the bigger the boil, the closer to the beginning.
I don't know German, so I'm not sure if the ending is like this. Friends who know German can look for the A by comparing the Chinese and German versions of Rabe's Diary.
PS: I just saw an article about "Nanjing! Nanjing! ” film review, the author said that the most moving plot was that Liu Ye and his comrades shouted “China will not perish” before being shot. Now that China has nuclear weapons and a powerful military force, the Chinese are still stuck in In the tragic and solemn cry of "China will not perish", but willing to be slaughtered as sublime, without the slightest anger and revenge, this is such a self-contemptuous national character, to be honest, that plot Even made me want to sneer.
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