Director Piaoyuan Xuzhi has shaped the characters in the film into loyal fans of the state apparatus, and dedication to the country has become the spiritual belief of these people, represented by Suzu Urano. The kind and simple Japanese people are innocent, active and brave, and face the government's arrangements for war in one sentence: unconditional support! Never showed a little doubt and disapproval.
Urano Ling likes to draw since she was a child, but her paintings basically only have the following two types, one is the rural landscape full of life, and the other is military ships. Before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States, the Japanese militarists had called on the whole people to fight, and the army general Anan Yuji even shouted that "one hundred million people will be broken".
Urano Ling was like a schizophrenic. She was completely different from the forbearance and gentle little girl before. She even said a word that made all Chinese people indignant.
Director, don't you know how many people have been left dead by the violence in your country? Why is it always a victim mentality?
It turned out that for Urano Suzu, the glory and victory of Japan is the meaning of persevering in life. I have to say that the so-called anti-war repentance and confession shown in "The Corner of the World" is completely unnecessary, and it is still the old way of "why do we lose". The film's high evaluation and 1.567 billion yen box office proves that some people in Japanese society still lack deep self-examination and reflection on World War II, and even do not think Japan is wrong at all.
Although director Kabubuchi Su Nao is Miyazaki's lover, his pursuit of art and humanity is far less pure than Miyazaki's. On July 13, 2015, at a press conference, Hayao Miyazaki urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to acknowledge in his post-war 70th anniversary speech that Japan had waged a war of aggression against China, and to express bitterly the great suffering caused to the Chinese people. Introspect.
Miyazaki said that Japan's act of launching a war of aggression must not be forgotten and denied, and no country can launch a war of aggression in pursuit of its own interests. This is the most basic principle that every country should abide by. Hayao Miyazaki's work "The Wind Rises" shows the helpless fate of the little people under the cruel war.
Also set in the background of World War II, Takahata Isao's "Grave of Fireflies" strongly criticized the devastation of the good life of war, full of human concern, while "In This Corner of the World" downplayed the harm of war, focusing on the tenacious vitality and vitality of the Japanese people. Indiscriminate national cohesion. It seems that he is about to cut his belly to sacrifice to the country and shout the phrase "Long Live the Empire of Japan". Haruhiko Arai, a well-known Japanese screenwriter and director, and the publisher of "Art of Cinema" criticized the film:
It is still the same set of "war = murdered movies", which I think is wrong. Are civilians not responsible in war? There are movies in which Yuko Tanaka, who lost his hand in the war, bluntly stated the emperor's war responsibility, there are realistic movies depicting the daily life of the wartime, and there are movies depicting (Japanese) responsibility for harm, have people forgotten? The current audience is the worst.
Poison King can't help but ask, director, what kind of values do you want to pass on to the Japanese people?
We can't preach hatred, but that doesn't mean we can condone some people's disregard for history. Although the atrocities in the past were not committed by the Japanese today, the sins of the predecessors must and can only be borne by the later generations, and admitting mistakes is one of the most basic things. Only in this way can we be worthy of our nation, and only in this way can we be responsible to our nation.
Lenin said that whenever there is a major political and economic crisis in a country, the broken flag of patriotism will stink again. Watching the chaos in Japan today makes me anxious. I hope that Japanese friends will not be blinded by nationalism. Peace does not come easily.
Poison Jun firmly believes that literary and artistic works have never been great because of their superb techniques, and sincerity is the ultimate trick to crush all techniques. No matter how blue the sky is and how beautiful the picture is, if the human heart is black, there is no light.
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