This is a huge work with rich content and many characters.
The film is based on the fall of Nanjing during the Chinese Anti-Japanese War, and depicts the tragic and touching story of a group of people who did not know each other getting to know and rescue each other while fleeing under the slaughter and looting of the invading army. The film allows us to see the cruelty and destructive power of war, the brutality and bloodshed of the invaders towards the defeated country, the fighting spirit of the Chinese people in the face of catastrophe, and the sublimation of people's souls in the face of death. And redemption, I also saw "this is the same root, why is it too urgent to fry each other?"
Director Zhang Yimou adopted a different technique from the previous Nanjing-themed films, which brought a different feeling to the audience. He used a calm and hopeless beauty to tell everyone the cruelty of the war.
In the film, the Japanese army chief entered the church and sat in front of the organ to play and sing a well-known Japanese folk song "Hometown". "Hometown" is somewhat as the name suggests, it shows that these invaders actually miss their hometown and relatives, and also want to live a peaceful life. This picture forms a strong contrast with the previous brutal and brutal massacre, and this huge inner conflict reveals the two sides of human nature. While appalled by the atrocities of the aggressors, we should also be saddened by the pain, destruction and death of the victims. It is in war and death that all the conflicts and paradoxes of human nature are exposed.
How can the businesswoman not know the hatred of subjugation, and the woman will not let her men. A woman who was despised by the world turned into a hero. The style wrapped in the cheongsam of the thirteen hairpins is the courage to die and the brilliance of humanity in the cruelest world.
In the film, the scene of singing "Qinhuai Scenery" in school uniform is particularly memorable, and Wu Nong's soft words are fascinating. The Chinese soldiers risked their lives to rush to the tanks of the Japanese invaders, redeeming the defeat of old China; American John, giving up the chance to escape, pretended to be a priest to protect the children of the church, and redeemed his obsession with bereavement; Jinling Qinhuai girls The hard work of the pure middle school students redeemed their bodies and love. I am so glad that I was born in a time of peace.
I was very impressed. At the end of the film, the car carried the students hidden under the box through the level of the Japanese soldiers guarding the city, and the last test of life and death finally passed. The car was bumping on the mountain road, John clenched the steering wheel with both hands, and his eyes were slowly changing: the high level of nervousness, worry and fear gradually receded, and his eyes began to flush with tears. It should be the memory of all the experiences in Jinling, the joy, the excitement, the love for Yumo and the sadness of life and death. This classic scene of the silent "mixed feelings" makes the whole film breathtaking.
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