cosmopolitanism or nationalism

Nina 2022-04-19 09:01:28

I believe that there should be some people who have difficulty watching the movie until the last second like me, and have difficulty judging how they feel after watching the movie. It's hard to decide how many stars to give.

It's kind of hard to watch this movie purely. After all, we are in such a special historical background and living environment.

When you see the devastation of your brother and sister because of the war and the annihilation of humanity in the film, you will surely shed tears, no matter if he is Chinese, Japanese or American Iraqi. This is because what you see at this time is the "people" of the "people" of all humanity. At this time you don't think about his government, his beliefs, his language, it's a common emotion, just like the emotion between you and your brother or between you and your sister. Even the invading countries, their people were poisoned by war.

But when you look at it, you can't help but lose your mind. You think of the Nanjing Massacre, the September 18th Incident, and the various educations you have received over the past ten years. You remembered that Japan is a "Japanese devil" who invades our country, burns, kills, loots and commits evil in our country. You shudder to think that the father of your brother and sister may have fired cannons off the coast of China.

On the one hand you are moved because of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, you are contradicting, because nationalism, nationalism has always been difficult to separate from patriotism, but it is not extreme nationalism (if it is an extreme nationalism, watching this film will definitely start to scold militaristic soul music and the like)

political and History has never been entangled. Ordinary people can neither play politics nor see history clearly. This is the same for ordinary people in China and Japan.

We are all that small and lowly one.



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  • Shyanne 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Your mother's comeback movie, why did you feel so numb when you were bombed? How miserable the net beep is. I have never seen the Japanese portray the Chinese who lost everything because of the war, the Chinese who lost their lives in the Nanjing Massacre, the Chinese who suffered in the human experiment of Unit 731, the Chinese who died in the bombing day after day People, the soldiers who lost their lives in order to protect their country, the parents who lost their children, the children who lost their parents. I have only seen the Japanese depict those Japanese animals who were beaten violently because their own country was defeated, Japanese animals who were thrown a few incendiary bombs after invading other countries, and belonged to countries that had invaded or provoked at the end of the war Those fanatical pro-war "Japanese civilians" Japanese animals killed in the bombing of fighter jets, those "Imperial soldiers" Japanese animals killed by heroic anti-aggression fighters. However, the beasts completely forgot that the war was started by themselves when they complained and opposed the war. This is the last thing the Chinese should forget. We have no right to forgive the beasts that invaded our country and hurt our compatriots on behalf of our ancestors.

  • Bonnie 2022-03-16 09:01:03

    Why do you live in poverty? Because the United States bombed you. Why did the United States bomb you? Because the people you bombed first... Then you shouted in the film why you had to surrender unconditionally? Because you have reached an agreement with the United States not to try the emperor’s crimes. As ordinary people, you yourself would not believe it...Just say that you, Japan, have never thought that launching a war to invade other countries is a crime against humanity, right? ! Isn't that what it deserves. .

Grave of the Fireflies quotes

  • [Setsuko's final words]

    Setsuko: Seita. Thank you.

  • [last lines]

    Seita: [to Setsuko] Time for bed.