"Iwo Jima Letter": Japanese Army? Jap? Japanese?
1. "Iwo Jima Letter" was released in December 2006, and "Assembly" was released in December 2007. Although it was only a year away, I felt that it was the same. I don't know if Feng Xiaogang learned from it, or whether it is real life or human relations and physics. The same, forget about the United States, Japan, China. All of them were cannon fodder battles that were sure to die; all of them had an experienced commander who cherished the lives of their soldiers; all of them wrote letters from the family and said sensational words when artillery fire started outside; all of them had a cultural recruit who had not experienced a lot of bullets. Etc., etc.
2. During World War II, Japan's military strength compared with China's, like an elephant and an ant; the comparison with the United States is also somewhat similar, except that the elephant is the United States. I saw that the Japanese army stationed on Iwo Jima had no air support, and no naval cooperation, relying on grenades, machine guns, rifles, pistols, bayonets to hide in the tunnels to fight guerrillas against American planes, artillery, warships, amphibious tanks, flame guns , Flare, I suddenly feel that this is very similar to China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. One side is armed with almost the cold weapons of the natives, while the other side holds all kinds of advanced weapons. However, the native guerrillas are not without cheap. The recent "Sedek Bale" once again confirmed this, except that the natives take a little advantage at most, and they will eventually fail. If you want to win, you have to rely on military strength. Just like the War of Resistance, it is not a reason why China won by itself.
3. Tadashi Kuribayashi was an excellent general. At least when he was isolated and beleaguered, he even delayed the U.S. military’s plan to occupy Iwo Jima from five days to more than a month. A battle with more casualties than the Japanese. But the so-called "miracle" is literally the same as China's war of resistance; when we were weak, we engaged in tunnel warfare, guerrilla warfare, protracted warfare, digging deep holes to store up food, and dragging words. Suicide bombing, kill one, earn several. Even if the position is lost, more people will die on the other side.
Fourth, Kuribayashi Zhongdao and Nishizhuichi should be regarded as tragic figures. Originally, he had a good relationship with American friends and did not advocate fighting against the United States, but when a soldier can only obey the command of a politician, he eventually became cannon fodder.
5. The Japanese army was also raised by their parents, not a cold-blooded machine that popped out of the cracks in the rocks. If you are a person, you know that you are bullying the soft and fearing the hard: during the Nanjing Massacre and July 31, they showed off their power, showed their bestiality, killed competitions, biochemical experiments, and the methods were so cruel. When I came here, I didn’t see how much they love peace; the war situation changed, and they were about to lose the battle. When they arrived at Iwo Jima, they began to cry and write letters to their families, confessing their innocence, and asking for understanding, care, and comfort. Are they Japanese devils or Japanese soldiers? Is there any difference? Or that there are good people and bad people everywhere. It's a complicated question, but anyway, to Americans they are all Japanese, and the same goes to Chinese.
6. Eastwood is a great filmmaker. God has eyes for this, public opinion has been decided, and private admiration. But I have enough reasons to suspect that he is jealous of the real Nishi Takeichi's handsomeness and dashing in history, so he deliberately found a big-eyed, plain-looking actor to weaken the appearance of Nishi Baron, making people feel that the so-called Japanese handsome guy is just that. Almost like a shoehorn.
Seven or ten years ago, I watched "The Joy Luck Club" for the first time. I didn't think it was a Chinese film. More than ten years later, when I watched another "Snowflake Secret Fan" directed by Wang Ying, I also thought it was not a Chinese film. , are China in the eyes of foreigners (or banana people), not actual China. Even if the thing is that thing, it doesn't feel that way, and of course it's not that thing more often. It's like the red world imagined by the American soldiers in "Big Fish": the five-pointed star flag that does not know which country is North Korea or which country hangs, speaks Cantonese, practices martial arts, swimsuit beauties on stage sing American jazz, and people wear green military uniforms The faces are expressionless... Although I don't know much about Japan, I occasionally feel the same way when I read "Iwo Jima Letters", especially when it hangs the national flag and kills puppies. It's absolutely Hollywood shit. Pure Asians shouldn't do this stuff, at least they have to kill someone. We Asians have a lot of things, and there are not many animal protectionists. It is difficult to win sympathy by killing animals. Later, Shimizu said that Americans are not as weak as he imagined, and that the American family letter is the same as his own, and this episode is also very Hollywood.
8. Although my love for beauties has become a big motivation for me to watch film and television works, it turns out that a good film can be fascinating without beauties. Of course, beauties are better. War movies are one of my least favorite genres, but I have the motivation to finish reading Iwo Jima Letters in one sitting. In the final analysis, I think its beauty lies not in the description of strategy and tactics, not in the display of aircraft and tanks, not in the battle between the enemy and the enemy, but in the narrative of human stories. After thinking about it, I feel that my biggest interest in watching this film lies in the direction of everyone's fate. What can Kuribayashi do? What will happen to Nishitakeichi's horses and people? What kind of burlesque will stupid Ito put on? What is the inside story of Shimizu? Of course, what is most concerned about is whether Xixiang can go home alive to see his wife and children. Almost from the beginning I had a hunch that Saigo was one of the few or no survivors. Although his image is not an eye-catching hero with a pack of explosives, or more like a timid and slick deserter, his existence as a human being is so distinct. I remembered that Li Ao said in the book that when he was young, a soldier under his command said why he had all the scars behind his back. Because as long as the two sides go to war, he runs away. There are many scars on the back, but his life is saved. So, seeing Rigiri rescue Saigo at the edge of Ito's knife, seeing Shimizu surrender before Saigo and being killed to save Saigo, seeing Saigo successfully retreating again, seeing Saigo being left to burn Ritsubayashi's documents instead of going up When the front line died, there was some relief in my heart. Life, because of life, there is life.
"Let The Right One In":做人要厚道
not so much "Let The Right One In" is a vampire horror romance, as it is a youth education film, he told those who like to lord it over the guy, do not unprovoked, Bully the weak or you'll get a vampire biting your neck off.
This Swedish film is very similar to the other Danish-Swedish co-production "Better World", and both involve some similar issues: divorced families, troubled children, school violence and resistance, and so on. This is probably the case in northern Europe. It is icy and snowy, and there are few people. It is inevitable that they will be autistic and withdrawn. But after watching "A Better World", I have never quite understood what the final conclusion of the film is? Obviously, Christian's practice of resisting violence with violence is denied in the movie. Is it a better way to fully practice Yefuzi's teachings like Elias's father Anton, when others hit you on the left cheek and stick out the right cheek Let him fight too. Amitabha, fortunately, we Chinese people have many respects for Confucius. Although Mr. Er is two, he is not so "two" in this regard. According to the Analects of Confucius, someone asked Teacher Confucius, "How about repaying grievance with virtue?" The Master said, "Why repay virtue? Repaying grievance with honesty, and repaying virtue with virtue." Unfortunately, today's people have always been unclear about what "straightforwardness" means. It is said to be frank and straightforward, not to accompany a smile or to stab a knife. Some people say that it is straightforward, a tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye. But no matter what kind of explanation, Mr. Kong didn't teach us to dedicate all our cheeks to those who slap our mouths. Even in "Better World", the practice of giving people a face and not fighting back in Denmark's native Anton was also denied in another environment. Somewhere in Africa, the bandit boss who performed a caesarean section on a pregnant woman to verify the sex of the baby was treated by Anton after being seriously injured. But when he saw that Anton failed to save the pregnant woman who was mutilated by him in the end, instead of reflecting on his remorse, he mocked recklessly and triumphantly. In the end, Anton, who repaid his grievances with virtue or abide by his duties as a doctor, couldn't stand it any longer, and pushed the executioner out of the medical camp and handed it over to the victim's family. Therefore, after reading "Better World", I still did not find any conclusive solutions. Perhaps, in the face of bullying, the most ideal outcome is to wait for the demons and ghosts to preside over justice, as in "Let The Right One In". It is found that there are at least two aspects of demons, ghosts and gods stronger than humans: first, high ability, weak can fly over the eaves and wall, fight and kill freely, strong can go to heaven and earth, call for wind and rain; second, more sense of justice and morality, often do some hoeing to help the weak chivalrous act. It's no wonder that fairies and ghosts are all fantasies of people, and people's fantasies either focus on the idea of evil, or have good yearnings, and they are always a little more than reality.
ghosts and virtues
On the day of national humiliation, and when the island battle is fierce, it seems too heartless to write the above. I'm going to pull these three together and continue to discuss how to "report". Since there is no good method given in the film, we can only review the history.
Example of hitting the left cheek to the right cheek. At the beginning of World War II, Hitler occupied the Czech Republic and Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium, and France. In the end, almost half of Europe was controlled by Germany. The earlier Sino-Japanese War was even worse. Japan is not enough to occupy the three eastern provinces, we give it to North China, not enough North China for Central China, and not enough Central China for South China. The party developed and expanded in the Great Northwest Mountain Valley, and the government of the Republic of China was no different from the Empress Dowager Cixi, who fled all the way west to Chongqing. If the whole world war situation was not reversed, it is estimated that the next step would be Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and northern Yunnan. Facts have proved that the result of believing Yefuzi's words is to make the beating person intensify and become more rampant. If you give him the left and right faces, he will hit the left and right shoulders, and if the shoulders are not enough, he will hit the thighs... Others will never give up. France was occupied, and General de Gaulle went to Britain to lead the Free French Movement and insisted on resisting until its recovery: the British mainland was bombed by the German army, and the British Air Force also flew to the German-dominated area for bombing. The United States is even more arrogant, and the little Pearl Harbor was bombed, and war was immediately declared. Not only did Midway beat Japan, but it also occupied part of Japan's territory and dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Iwo Jima mentioned in the movie originally belonged to Japan. It was captured by the US military in 1945 and was not returned until 1968. This is definitely how you punch me and I kick you.
In this way, it seems that people who read the Bible are more willing to choose the saying that Confucius cannot repay grievances with virtue, while Mr. Kong's disciples and grandchildren are more willing to follow Yefuzi's teaching of slapping people in the face. What's happening here? Complete paradox. It seems that a conclusion can be drawn: people are hypocritical, saying one thing and doing another. In fact, how to behave has nothing to do with choosing Confucianism, what matters is strength. Lao Mei has the strength, and can naturally fight a tooth for a tooth, even a foot for a fist. So, in "Let The Right One In," Oscar is going to the gym to build muscle; in "A Better World," Christian is going to make dynamite. Counting on vampires and cosmic police to help justice, it is estimated that not to mention the left face and right face, left arms and right arms, left legs and right legs, even the left buttocks and right buttocks will all be opened. Of course, strength is not only military force, but also comprehensive national strength.
In the "Iwo Jima Letter", a lot of content is written about the story of life, but it still uses the title of people and ghosts. Because although I think Nishitake and Liu Xiang, who won the Olympic gold medal, should be regarded as the pride of Asia, Ritsubayashi is an excellent military conductor, and the quality of Japanese nationals is indeed quite high in some aspects, but one yard Return to one code. As the "Judgment at Nuremberg" shows: don't pretend to be innocent, maybe you don't know the details, but you know the result. It's not that you can't know, it's that you don't want or don't know. Therefore, regarding the question of people and ghosts, I still feel that there are not only differences between people and ghosts, but also differences between people. If a person who claims to be a human does something that a human should not do, it is no different from a ghost. For this kind of ghost, no matter what Yefuzi and Confucius teach, they should be like Christian in "A Better World", pump up a pump to give his confused brain a flower, so that he can wake up and know that cheap is not cheap. Good to occupy. However, if he robbed the ghost of his gold watch while giving the ghosts brains to bloom, the nature seemed to change from self-defense and counterattack to robbery, both reasonable and unreasonable.
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