I think this movie is pretty good.

First. Because I have seen Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing", in Lu Chuan's film, there are some things that don't need to be elaborated. When you click it, you can experience the shocking aura. Like painting, there are some things called blank space. The Japanese soldier was carrying a sword. Walking on the river beach in slow motion. I think it's very good, that is to use the beauty of the lens to render cruelty, the slower it is, the more cruelty feels deep inside. There is also the same slow shot of Liu Ye's glasses after seeing the Japanese soldiers and then seeing the piles of corpses. I love how he handled nothing shouting before he died.
Because he has done too much and sacrificed too many brothers. It was enough not to shout at that moment.

Nanjing has passed 70 years. Every December 13th of the year I write my blog notes, I write on the blog. Today is Nanjing Massacre Remembrance Day.
If we can look at it from a human point of view. Look at the small individuals from the great disaster, and see how these individuals emit light and heat. That is a very transcendent thing.
The movie didn't make me cry too much. He did not deliberately render tears, nor did he deliberately express anything. He even chose an angle that was easy to criticize.
The helplessness of a Japanese soldier.
The first shot is Kadokawa and I understand that this story is to be told from his point of view.
That taiko dance hinted at his situation. Each of them followed a lead, doing the same thing, chanting their own slogans. In the sound of such a drum (actually, what I want to imply is militaristic education), I move forward blankly. Before he could be confused, he was pushed into a turbulent war. He is just a helpless member driven by the giant waves, he is an outlier. But he may represent the human nature of the perpetrator that has not been wiped out.

And Teacher Jiang. Why didn't she go when one hundred women were selected. Because she has to do more to manage there. She didn't go to protect more people. In the end, she also sacrificed her life to save many people.
To live is not to live, to protect oneself is not to protect oneself. All for more people.
I admire Lu Chuan for giving them two surviving people a brilliant smile in the end. Perhaps this massacre did not cause too serious damage to their pure hearts. For them, being alive, the beauty of life, is happiness. They are ignorant and therefore happy. They have the courage of their own people, so they are happy. Their happiness comforts me. Give cherished things to cherished people. This is the universal law of environmental protection.

Sad people are those who understand. Take Kadokawa, for example, because he has read a lot of books, he cherishes life, and the more he knows, the more helpless and sadder he becomes.
In this catastrophe, the most tragic are not those who died, but those who survived to face the rebirth after the catastrophe.

It's been 70 years. Trying to see the catastrophe in another way is progress. Such a story may not be enjoyable enough for those ignorant little angry youths. But what matters is not whether we can understand it ourselves, but whether more people can understand it.
I think Lu Chuan is amazing.

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