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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