This is the homework for Teacher Zhou's class in the sophomore year, and now Lu Chuanjun is even more annoying. The rest are not listed.
Let's talk about a joke first, in "Nanjing! Nanjing! "When the large-scale release caused great repercussions, several classmates talked about the topic of Lu Chuan's film: "Kekexili", this time in Nanjing, I asked: "What do you say next time he shoots?" "512 chant!" At different times Three people at the location gave the same answer.
I think the subject matter chosen by the director is excellent and wonderful, and Hoh Xil is enough to make the audience feel a sense of respect and deep respect for the director's humanitarian thought, so the filming of war and massacre is even more worthy of tears. "Dele's List" is often compared with this film, "Xin" is the first, but Director Lu is very ambitious and does not want to lose.
"'What is war? It's the culture of aliens dancing on our ruins.'" Lu Chuan understood war in this way more than once. ——Lu Chuan said this in an interview. And this sentence has a very straightforward reaction in the film, a ten-minute Japanese sacrifice dance - it is said that it has been cut. Seeing the director explain this dance like this, I couldn't help laughing. The director is really a sincere person.
Who has seen the dance of "alien culture"? The Indian people who were colonized by the British may have seen it, and Australia was assimilated by white people - the indigenous children of the "stolen generation" may have seen it, but the Jewish people who walked into the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp may not have seen it. In the same way, few of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians still in Nanjing in December 1937 have probably seen it, because the vast majority of them—various statistics range from tens of thousands to 300,000 people. Wait, I haven't had a chance to be enslaved by aliens, I haven't learned Japanese and raised the sun flag like the puppet Manchurian people in the three eastern provinces, I haven't had a chance to integrate into the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", and I have directly turned into bones in mass graves, going to heaven or Go to hell. The director knows that the dance of the alien race is on the ruins, but unfortunately the dance of the alien culture is dance, but the dance is in an empty city, and the undead probably cannot see the dance.
If the film is the director's romantic interpretation of "human nature", then the director's elaboration can only be said to be incomprehensible and completely wrong.
Aside from Xiaodouzi, a vague clue that can be called a clue that the audience can't understand, the absolute hero of the movie is shy, and it is the first time he is on the battlefield. The Japanese younger brother Kadokawa-kun, (Huh, Lu Chuan? Kadokawa?) The movie tells us that if Kadokawa-kun is now, he is not an otaku who bought video games in Akihabara, but a hipster wandering around in Shibuya. How could such a lovely little brother who came to China for the first time kill people? A manslaughter hit the child hidden in the secret door, which made him vomit. Also, Kadokawa-kun has not had sex yet, so he is so gentle with the comfort woman Yuriko, and he wants to go to her to be his wife. That scene is as pure and bright as "Love Letter", but unfortunately it doesn't happen, Yuriko died. Kadokawa-kun then turned his loving gaze to the Chinese prostitute Xiao Jiang and female teacher Jiang Shuyun, but unfortunately they both died. Just after the death of one woman after another, Kadokawa-kun became disillusioned.
With a gunshot, Kadokawa-kun in the movie shot himself and died in a flower field outside Nanjing. Before that, Kadokawa-kun looked up at the bright sun in the sky. This scene echoes the scene where the bored Kadokawa-kun looked up at the beginning of the Japanese attack on Nanjing City. The director told us that Kadokawa was just such an idle and simple boy.
Kadokawa-kun, who committed suicide, gained infinite sublimation from the perspective of Lu Chuan. The director tried to use this action to prove that he had completed the double redemption of human nature: the redemption of himself and the redemption of the slaughtered people. But when I saw this, I suddenly became stupid: Kadokawa-kun, an excellent representative of Japanese soldiers, is so great and affectionate. Could it be that Japanese extreme right forces such as Shintaro Ishihara are right that the Nanjing Massacre never happened? If the devils were so great and affectionate, they would vomit if they killed people by mistake, and would not requisition comfort women—even if they did, they would know how to use condoms! So who is raping? Who is killing?
According to the director's logic, the set of textbooks must be wrong: "Before the capture of Nanjing, the Japanese High Command had formulated a strategy, that is, by brutally attacking Nanjing, to disintegrate the Chinese people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit and force Jiang to surrender." According to According to the director's logic, there is no reason for the Nanjing Massacre to happen.
What Lu Chuan didn't mention is that the tall white lady who played the leader of Jinling Women's College in the film is actually Minnie Weitlin and her Chinese name is Huaqun. In late November 1937, this female missionary disregarded the ultimatum from the U.S. embassy four times and resolutely stayed in Nanjing to defend the Women's College. After the Japanese army captured Nanjing, she was kept safe by the constant harassment and killing of the Japanese army. Saved the lives and innocence of more than 4,000 schoolgirls and women. However, due to the enormous burden and terror she suffered every day, Waitlin suffered from a serious mental illness and left Nanjing in 1940 to return to the United States for medical treatment. On May 14, 1941, the anniversary of her leaving China, she committed suicide by burning charcoal at the age of fifty-five. Before her death, she still said: "If there is an afterlife, I am still willing to serve the Chinese people." Four Chinese characters are engraved on her tombstone: "Jinling Eternal Life". Suicide like this makes me cry.
The lady, in the final photo display, was not present.
Many people died, whether real or not, but Xiaodouzi survived, which undoubtedly gave the audience a final shot in the arm - this child is a good hope. But what Lu Chuan has not mentioned is another person who survived the war, Emperor Hirohito's uncle: Lieutenant General Prince Asaka Miyaji Hatohiko, after the fall of Nanjing on December 12, according to declassified documents after the war. The headquarters where Hatohiko Asaka is located immediately issued a series of orders signed by Hatohiko Asaka himself, with the words "confidential" and "destruction after reading" stamped on it, and the content is very simple: "kill all the prisoners." The culprit, after the war, not only was able to get away with impunity, but also lived in seclusion between green mountains and rivers, and also served as the chairman of the "Japan Golf Club". Like Xiaodouzi, he lived until the end of the war, and in the following days. Living much better than Xiaodouzi, he lived to the fullest of his years and died on April 12, 1981, at the age of ninety-one.
In the last words, Director Lu Chuan seems to intend to see the big from the small, but the result is not only unsuccessful, but also annoying. For the time being, regardless of his skill, let go of technical problems such as confusing narrative clues and unclear plot description, because this can be solved by asking Lu Chuan to find a few good screenwriters and digging through historical materials, then the director will not let Liu Ye early. Don't rest your eyes - if this is a portrait exhibition-style work; it won't let Mr. Rabe's secretary, Mr. Tang, be killed by the Japanese army for no reason - the purpose seems to be to sublimate Mr. Tang by saying "My wife is again." Pregnant" line.
Lu Chuan reminded me of the leaflets dropped by the Japanese military planes in the sky. The paper that floated down the sky was full of friendship between China and Japan. If you are a good citizen, everything will be fine. Back then, there should have been a lot of Chinese people who were deceived by the battles that spread all over the sky, and in the end they couldn't help but become ghosts under the knife. Today's "Nanjing! Nanjing! "It came with an overwhelming momentum, and the leaflet was filled with two big characters: Humanity! As a result, the people were moved once again. God can have such a perspective. He looks down at this impermanent world, and life and death are just a piece of dust between his fingers. This is probably because God lives in the sky, and Lu Chuan was also so sympathetic that he held the invaders and slaughterers in his palms, and Lu Chuan had not yet lived with God, so this sympathy was unnecessary.
I think, even if we don't mention those numbers that can never be estimated clearly outside Lu Chuan's perspective, even these living and dead creatures in Lu Chuan's lens, those irreparable wounds and sins, we can't be in "Nanjing!" Nanjing! , to find a convincing answer. Whether it is human nature or dancing, these words are very beautiful, but in Nanjing in 1937, in front of a city of death that has become a scorched earth, they are shallow or even unworthy, especially not worthy of invaders. The only reason is that the number of 300,000 is sticky with blood. This number is not too small, but too large. Kadokawa-kun's humanity cannot afford it.
May 22, 2009
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