wrong tonality

Hiram 2022-04-19 09:02:44

While the film was being shown, my husband who got off work pushed open the door and took off his shoes, and suddenly exclaimed, "Yo! What film, this music is like...a memorial service."

This sentence hit me. The soundtrack is indeed mournful. Then cover the whole piece like wallpaper. When the Japanese army sang, I tried to imagine what the same group of people would look like massacred in China, but it still didn't quite match the number. He felt that there could be no "conservatory graduates" in the world who commanded the troops to strictly train chorus when they were leisurely, and brutally massacred ordinary people when they attacked. Nor can there be Japanese soldiers who "learn the harp by themselves".

Watching thousands of aftermath movies can get irritated. After so many decades, these kinds of films are still being made, and Myanmar, Vietnam, and India still look as overgrown as they used to be, with reclining Buddhas everywhere, the Japanese are still a hard-hearted nation, the third world Still the third world.

Harp in Burma is not whimsical or thought provoking, just a one-liners perspective of some Japanese in the early postwar period, bewildering, life-abhorring, cognition-splitting, like picking a timbre The softest harp is the same as playing the arrogant and evil "Moon in a Deserted City".

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The Burmese Harp quotes

  • British officer: We've done all we can. The troops that took Triangle Mountain have returned home. The Japanese survivors are not in this town.

    Captain Inouye: But that tune?

    British officer: You hear a certain way of playing - a few notes floating by the breeze, and it's enough to make you think a dead man is alive. You must be dreaming.

    British officer: [to his adjutant] He must be dreaming!

  • Captain Inouye: The songs uplifted our spirits and sometimes our hearts.