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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  • Nikita 2022-04-23 07:04:07

    Four and a half stars, if there is a defect, it is that the last letter does not need to exist. From the moment Mizushima rolled down the hillside, it has already foreshadowed its own end, and everything that has been experienced can be regarded as an inevitable and irresistible fate. The singing of the harp throughout it adds a bit to this serious and depressing black and white image. "Death-like vitality", several shots have an inexplicable sense of desolation and powerlessness. I was moved by that part of echoing from afar.

  • Sister 2022-04-21 09:03:15

    This is a beautiful movie, but it deeply criticizes the cruelty of war

The Burmese Harp quotes

  • Subtitles: [Last lines] The soil of Burma is red, and so are its rocks!

  • Captain Inouye: [Excerpt from Mizushima's letter, which Captain Inouye reads to his men as they sail back to Japan] As I climbed mountains and crossed streams, burying the bodies left in the grasses and streams, my heart was wracked with questions. Why must the world suffer such misery? Why must there be such inexplicable pain? As the days passed, I came to understand. I realized that, in the end, the answers were not for human beings to know, that our work is simply to ease the great suffering of the world. To have the courage to face suffering, senselessness and irrationality without fear, to find the strength to create peace by one's own example. I will undergo whatever training is necessary for this to become my unshakable conviction.