The Light of the Dead City - They Died for Us

Madyson 2022-04-23 07:06:20



Watching "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Before, I was still annoyed by the stop loss of my stock. As soon as I entered the movie theater, I started a two-hour depression, and my heart was full of anger. I know that revisiting this history and losing everything is the last stop-loss ending. In the manner of an inhuman beast. In the film, the partial resistance of the national army was added to the front, and it was closer to history. After reading some articles on the Internet, I realized that the last sheep-like silence was actually a choice without choice. One sheep is the same as ten thousand sheep. This is due to human nature, and there is nothing to criticize. If it was us, it might be the same fate. The poster of the movie has the phrase "We have been resisting, we are still alive", which may be the light of dignity, the kind of individual life. I knew it was hopeless, but I persisted. The slaughter of the Japanese by the Japanese is a bestiality, and anger is necessary, but 70 years later, we are still accustomed to thinking about this history with the thinking of the weak. Shame of course needs to be remembered, but not every day in the name of angry youth to be unhappy, hurt the spleen and liver.
After reading an interview with Lu Chuan, I saw that among the 300,000 dead, less than 3 were able to find their names. This is a kind of sadness. Most of the monuments in the United States have specific names, and the place where devils like the Yasukuni Shrine conjures the soul is also a kind of belonging. In the past, due to ideological problems, for example, the anti-Japanese war part of the expeditionary army, such as the Kuomintang, was selectively ignored and forgotten. Most of the dead, delving into history, only end up with symbols. Today, when I read "Southern People Weekly" mentioning the list of new dead people in Wenchuan searched by Ai Weiwei, there is a picture that makes me uncomfortable - numbered tombstones up to around 200. We are all nameless graves, walking in the desert of this time, it is difficult to pay homage.
How to restore war and restore humanity is an unlikely task. Of course, it is not the Ah Q-style Anti-Japanese War YY in the style of "Bright Sword" and "Tunnel Warfare", which is also a kind of disrespect to the victims and the dead. I hate that kind of mentally retarded anti-Japanese comedy, fuck, how can a person be so cheap. While insulting the enemy's wisdom, he was insulting his own people who had been fighting for eight years. Jiang Wen's "The Devil is Coming" is one of the rare masterpieces. The struggle during this period and the partial recovery of human nature can also be regarded as a faint light of conscience. "Assembly" is a good progress as a movie that slightly restores specific people, but compared with "The Taiji Flag Flying", which is a movie with the same theme, it still lacks the display of human nature. Always wanting to make a big splash on a grand theme is actually nothing but the slavery of the scene. So you can see the grandeur and so-called momentum of the series "Armageddon", but you can't see the fate of specific individuals, and there is meaningful thinking in it. Most fighters can only be reduced to cannon fodder. Patriotism was once again reduced to the flag of jokes when the angry youth were unsurprisingly full of bashing and bloodbath to wash Tokyo.
A few scenes in the movie almost made me cry, and my chest kept aching. It is true that sometimes it is more painful to live than to die, especially that kind of humiliating life without dignity and security. Entering this history from the perspective of Japanese officers, it is naturally a little more objective, but this may only be a sustenance. Of course, what many people criticize is that the so-called conscience confession of Japanese officers found that it was difficult to get rid of suicide in the end. There is nothing wrong with it as a movie, of course, this is just a sustenance. Compared with history, this seems a bit erratic and taken for granted. But this is a good wish, if human nature does not die. Of course, most devils are twisted beasts. Watching the documentary "Nanjing", you can't understand any repentance of their conscience after getting old, even beasts.
We cannot assume virtuality in many scenes, which is the cruelty of history. The mechanism of war makes people gradually animalize. And think deeply, why a small country that has been less than two hundred years since the Meiji Restoration can rise in an instant and almost destroy China, which has to be thought-provoking. The most annoying NC-style slogan-style summary "We should study hard and serve the motherland", you learn again, but it is just a microphone repeater on the assembly line. When the Yugoslav embassy was bombed, those sb students said this on TV, and the teacher taught this. When Chinese football was humiliated by being poured more than n balls, those players probably said the same.
The strength of a country does not depend on its territory, but on its texture. In the previous paragraph, I read "Things in the Ming Dynasty". It mentioned that Toyotomi Hideyoshi wanted to occupy China in the past. First, he occupied Korea. messed up. The historical materials of the Anti-Japanese War have been emerging in recent years, and the historical view has also improved slightly. I was thinking that if I studied history, I would write a biography of someone who died in the Nanjing Massacre, regardless of his age, gender, or identity. This memorial is necessary. The name of the living is more resolute, the dead are gone, for those who died for us. If I have the opportunity, I want to go to Nanjing to pay homage to the heroes who passed away 70 years ago. in the name of the Chinese.

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  • Bell 2022-04-19 09:03:19

    In an attempt to subvert the public's perception of the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of a Japanese, how can the tragedy of one person be equated with the tragedy of 300,000 people? A film like this is terrifying because it's told so well, but the message is fatally wrong.

  • Krystal 2022-04-19 09:03:19

    Absolute masterpiece! !