Similarly, "The Banner of Fathers" is easy to make people dizzy. Those large amounts of flashbacks and intervening memories are often appropriate to interrupt everyone's emotions so that they can no longer reattach, and the critical conclusion can be detected early.
However, even "Flags of the Fathers" is not a bad film. The evaluation of "Letters from Iwo Jima" is even better. This can be seen as a display of the Western world from the United States re-examining the once stubborn, despicable and indecent opponent Japan from the Eastern world, although after World War II, Japan has acted against the United States. You have to be obedient. All kinds of facts show that the Japanese will only give in and respect their opponents. Unfortunately, China is not.
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Through "Letters from Iwo Jima", everyone, even the Chinese, can clearly discover the difference and entanglement between the two worlds (East and West), and the old cowboy appropriately chose two historical facts. The characters are all knight-like men who have drunk foreign ink and even small influential men (and they show some sympathy, after all, they share adversity). But will this affect our attitude towards the two of them? Maybe there will be some, because the images of Japanese soldiers on them suddenly become alive and humane, and they know that they will never return or go to Iwo Jima without hesitation. This can be said to be an inviolable military order, but it is the most fundamental kind of sorrow that is highly pressured.
You can't expect how many Japanese soldiers with a "Chinese sense of justice" would fight against the war at that time. Everyone knows the end; but you can't think that there are really many imperial imperial little devil shots. That's another way. brainwashing.
When Ken Watanabe took the lead and shouted three times, "Long live the emperor!", I actually laughed, and suddenly realized that this is the same as our film and television works once used to express loyalty and show fearlessness and shout "Down with XXX, XXX long live" How similar are the echoes floating in the valley. If placed in the West, it would probably be a slogan like "Freedom!" In my opinion, they are all equally ridiculous and impractical.
"Letters from Iwo Jima" is handled better. One thing is that it is not sensational. Although it has old beauty whitewashing, after all, if you don't whitewash it, you still want to go to Tokyo to release it. Isn't it a death? But compared to the sensationalistic individualistic hero who rushes towards the enemy with a big knife and can't fall, the greatest significance of "Letters from Iwo Jima" is that it has unearthed several characters from a group of Japanese soldiers who have no retreat. Contrasting distinctive personality (not called "humanity" here).
The number of Japanese actors that Americans can choose seems to be so. It should be said that they performed well in the film, but unfortunately none of them are particularly hateful. End. However, the five of them are enough to show the Japanese army in that situation, and no matter how desperate they are, they still can't carry the old beauty.
From the perspective of the movie, the music with only a single theme evokes deep thoughts, and the trumpet awakens a distant dream. Why would the people of the two worlds be loyal to the country behind each, and then fight to the death on Iwo Jima? This is probably the most important point of "Letters from Iwo Jima". It is not a reversal or deliberate beautification, but the entanglement and communication of two worlds-from the East and the West, from conservative backwardness and freedom and advanced. People criticized it as praising the United States itself and appeasing Japanese sentiments.
However, thinking about the two worlds, our hearts will be calmer.
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