Today at the Beijing Film Academy, I took a director master class. South Korean director Yoo Seung-wan gave a lecture at Nortel with his new film "Battleship Island". According to the genre, this is a major Korean commercial blockbuster, but looking at the same genre in China, I can't bear to look directly at it. The industry is not bad, but it loses in the courage to face history and reflect on history. In addition to national confrontation and slavery, it also reveals the betrayal of "self". The shackles of Chinese film development is a very important factor, let's not talk about it for the time being. What I like most about this film is that the little girl fleeing at the end of the film cried and looked at the blasted Nagasaki in the distance. Suddenly she looked at the camera, and when she reached the screen, I felt a kind of shock like "Four Hundred Blows". The omniscient perspective was suddenly switched, and the characters jumped out of the film narrative and stared directly at the audience. This was an unavoidable question: what should we do? The director's exchange mentioned an interesting historical fact: a North Korean laborer finally escaped from Hell Island and came to Nagasaki, but what he was waiting for soon was the atomic bomb dropped by the United States. This is a question worth thinking about, what is victory? Is there any point in escaping and resisting when the place where you want to escape all your life has completed death in another place? Everyone is just a sandstone that has been trampled or tossed in the big history. What we pursue is nothing more than freedom and dignity as much as possible. If we can still realize the value of being born as a human being, if this is a victory, it is the will of the will. Victory, the brilliance of humanity.
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