I really, really, really don't like war movies. After watching it, I was gloomy and heavy, and it was difficult to disperse for a long time.
After watching "Battleship Island", it rained heavily. Standing on the flyover in a trance, breathing, so as to relieve chest tightness. Aside from our own entanglements with Korea and Japan, at least this movie made me understand why Koreans hate Japan so much.
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retrospect, it is always unavoidable to sigh. We were taught since childhood that "don't forget our national humiliation" seems to be just a slogan. On some specific days, the air-raid sirens that sounded throughout the city, for us as children, were more like a seasoning in a dull classroom, and lost its original warning.
Most of the patriotic education movies we watched when I was a child showed the wit and heroism of our army and the mentally retarded and funny of the enemy army, and the atmosphere was always inspiring. When I was in high school, I only watched "Nanjing" ("The Forgotten 1937"), a documentary. The presentation is flat and gentle, and there are not too many stories to stir up emotions, but the heavy feeling after watching it, I can't forget it. It was the first time that I understood that that war was so inhumane and unforgivable.
The younger generation does not like to watch movies and TV dramas with the theme of anti-Japanese. We cannot feel the sense of achievement of victory from the various "fighting wits and courage" plots, but there is a mockery of being fooled by IQ. Part of the reason, I think, is that we have so little experience with the pain of that war. Those film and television dramas were made for the older generation to watch, and those older generation who were discriminated against and persecuted in the backward time can always feel the pleasure of raising their eyebrows when they see these buffed victories.
But the younger generation needs more to feel the brutality and bloodshed of war. If we want everyone to "never forget our national humiliation", we want to give them a sense of shame. There should be more works that restore history like "Nanjing" and "Twenty-two", even like "Nanjing!" Nanjing! ” and “The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling” with commercial flavors may be better than earlier films such as “Devils Entering the Village”. This is not to say that "Devils Into the Village" is not good. As a movie, it has its classic places, but as a patriotic education, they are somewhat out of sync with the times.
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"Battleship Island" gave a strong anti-war sentiment, although at the end of the film, the main theme of justice triumphed was unavoidably sounded. But at the beginning of the film, the child was driven into the leaking mine by a whip, and was finally buried alive in the collapsed mine tunnel, and the audience's emotions began to be ignited from here. As the story progresses, the film uses a lot of details to accumulate the anger and grief of the audience.
The people who were deceived into the island, whether they were the scholar triad or the band before, were all driven out of the mines, and the women were all treated as comfort women or even children; The so-called dormitory with seepage water eats food worse than pig food, and it is not possible to fish out live mice and cockroaches; the miners are exploited, if they are disobedient, they are ruthlessly beaten or even shot to death; the mine road catches fire, the first The thing was to blow up the exit to prevent the fire from affecting other mines, regardless of how many miners were buried alive; knowing that after Japan was defeated, the first thing to do was to slaughter all the Koreans on the island, burn documents, and cover up the crime. The audience's anger has been suppressed by the dark pictures and bloody scenes, so the final resistance is boiling.
At the end of the film, a line of narration is typed out, and Japan still does not recognize the crime on Gunkanjima. Japan seems to have such a guilty attitude towards what happened during World War II. If it can be denied, it will be denied, and if it cannot be denied, it will not be mentioned again. It seems that time can wash away these crimes. Young people in Japan, unless they are interested in going through the history of the war, rarely know that their ancestors committed such crimes against humanity. This may be due to their political attitude and their political needs, but the injured nation should not forget, and the history of mankind should not be forgotten. This has nothing to do with national sentiment, it is human sentiment. Humans must remember the darkness of these wars in order to understand the value of peace. Germany, which was also defeated, was much more upright. They were taught to admit the crimes of their ancestors, not necessarily to atone for their sins, but to be vigilant and not to become such a brutal nation again.
Of course, "Battleship Island" is a commercial film after all. It is very commercial in character selection and plot design. In addition to the main line of national hatred and family hatred, there is also a love line that sees the truth in adversity and a father-daughter emotional line that sticks to each other. Zhixie, oh man, he has to burst, he didn't follow the line of fresh meat, his vicious eyes, stretched muscles, and real walking hormones; Zhongji, oh, he's handsome, handsome everywhere, nothing to say; it's worth it The little girl in the play, Su Hee, can act and sing, which is very good. Even in the days of labor on the island, she can still act like a spoiled child with her father. Because of a piece of candy, she smiles happily, which is in keeping with the dark and cruel tone of the whole film. The stark contrast is really heartwarming.
People who live in peace should cherish the happiness of peace more.
There has never been a good war.
hate war.
above.
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