It turns out that the movie will also "bump into the shirt", and two films describing the Nanjing Massacre will be released at the same time. The reappearance of history is a coincidence or a necessity. However, if "Nanjing! Nanjing! " is too much a film about the Nanjing Massacre, so "Rabe Diary" should be said to be a film based on the Nanjing Massacre to highlight an international person with a humanitarian spirit, that is, based on "Schindler" as a template. A heroic image, instead of using "Rabe's Diary" as evidence to reveal the truth of the Nanjing Massacre, which should have been the real historical value of "Rabe's Diary".
It's not that I shouldn't praise this Mr. Rabe. I completely agree with history's positive evaluation of him, but it is self-evident that the Nanjing Massacre is more important than Rabe's in history. Taking the Nanjing Massacre only as a background to set off the "positive figure" Rabe, are the traces of artificial processing too obvious?
Maybe I shouldn't have such a skeptical attitude towards all the "positive people" in history, but the damn thing is that the more you talk about it, the more trustworthy you automatically degrade in my heart. Why? Let’s talk about Sun Yat-sen first. The Kuomintang said he was the father of the country, the Communist Party said he was the pioneer of the revolution, and he was an undisputed great man in modern history. People said that the combination of him and Soong Ching Ling was a revolutionary companion, and he was famous for future generations. Marry your wife again", a bad word to say is that he likes the new and hates the old, Soong Ching Ling is in his early twenties, and he is already in his fifties. Then there is Chairman Mao, the great leader of our new China. Who dares to make irresponsible remarks about his private life, but among them, I think everyone is clear even if they don’t talk about it. Just think, if it is not a great person, then later generations may say that their personal life is chaotic, and the evening is not guaranteed. . . Food and sex are also, great people also have seven emotions and six desires, is there a problem? No, understand.
Today's politics is tomorrow's history. What should be history and what should not be history. We today should interpret history from this perspective and not from that perspective. . . When a person speaks flawlessly, it is a time of doubt. The question is whether there has never been a truly "flawless" great man in the world. Can artificially and deliberately shaping a heroic imagination stand the test of time? Under the sanctimonious appearance on the surface, will it make people suspicious and cause the whole building to collapse? As more and more secret files are being discovered now, more and more truths have surfaced?
Of course, I have no ill will towards Rabe. I have been to the Rabe Memorial Hall in Nanjing. As a Nanjing native, I have every reason to thank him and miss him, but I don't fully agree with the image that this movie has created for him. , in addition to being an outstanding international person with a sense of justice and humanitarianism, I also want to know if he is also timid in the face of death, melancholy in the face of temptation, and weighing in the face of interests. . . I don't know if writing this way will damage the original intention of the film, and I don't know if writing this way will restore a more real Rabe?
Oh, I forgot to mention, it is worth mentioning that Zhang Jingchu, her dispensable role in the play just adds to the "storytelling" feature of this film. In a bloody era, she raised such a thin-skinned and tender-fleshed female student. When everyone was disgraced, she could not even see a shadow of coal dust on her face. The stars were full of stars; General wisdom and courage, probably because he foresaw that later generations would need first-hand video materials of the Nanjing Massacre, so he bravely went deep into the enemy area to shoot everywhere, and was almost raped and almost killed. . . But she has the life of "Xiaoqiang"; although she is young, she is calm and calm in the face of the dead, not afraid or vomiting, and taking pictures correctly (is it a specially trained agent?); Finally, she is with the ghost who doesn't know the people of that country. The plot of the guy's eyebrows is a bit baffling, probably suggesting that he will marry a chicken and follow the chicken in the future, which is exactly the law that a beautiful heroine must have an emotional drama. . . Congratulations to the director, you finally interspersed a comedy plot with a tragedy.
At the end of the film, "This film was shot based on historical facts." I was thinking, what does "based on" mean? According to historical facts, it actually means nothing to do with historical facts.
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