's "Rabe Diary" will be released on April 29. At the preview meeting, the elderly and students who spoke could not hide their excitement and tears. With the full release of the film, Chinese audiences could not avoid the pain caused by the cruel facts presented in the film.
The lens of "Rabe's Diary" is aimed at a character, he is the German Johan Rabe who established an international safe zone and protected 250,000 ordinary people during the Nanjing Massacre. There are not many film and television works about the Nanjing Massacre, and each has different degrees of limitations. For many years, there has been a voice in China, calling for a film work that not only truly reflects historical facts but also can be understood by global audiences. This gives an example of reference - Spielberg's "Schindler's List". This classic film, hailed as "existing as an eternal splendor in the history of cinema", tells the true historical event of German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler's protection of 1,200 Jews from the murder of fascists during World War II.
"Rabe's Diary" aroused strong repercussions when it was released in Germany. People were not discussing the quality of the film at the technical level, but were surprised to learn that there was a tragic event in the history of the Nanjing Massacre through Rabe - "Rabe's Diary" "Fulfills its most genuine wish. When the world's film trend focuses on expressing human nature and reflecting on history, Rabe, who has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, is once again used to save the common disease of modern people - numbness and forgetfulness.
"Rabe's Diary" has the color of a biopic, but in terms of storytelling and details, through some Hollywood-style expressions, it has created a credible, lovely and respectable plump character. Therefore, what we see is not A tall, idolized Rabe, but a Rabe with human weaknesses such as vulnerability and avoidance. Sending his wife to escape from Nanjing, being elected as the chairman by the International Security Zone Management Committee, and the dispute with the doctor Wilson... The settings of these plots, either sad, joking, or humorous, ease the heavy atmosphere of the film and increase the film At the same time, it is also an ingenious foreshadowing for Rabe's psychological transformation process from hesitant to firm belief. Ambassadors and media from various countries are about to return to Nanjing by boat. At the critical moment when the Japanese army was about to destroy the safe zone, Rabe led his colleagues to stand in front of the guns of the Japanese army. The film uses this tense scene to frame Rabe as the incarnation of justice. Its heroic image also came to life.
There is also a redemption theme in "Rabe's Diary". The Japanese officer whose conscience was shaken informed Rabe when he knew that the Japanese army was about to destroy the safe area. Xu is the reason why the space and the focus of the movie are not here. The identity of the Japanese officer in the movie is very vague, and the incentives for his "snoticing" are not explained, so the theme of redemption only plays an embellishment role in the movie.
"Rabe's Diary" is a film about commemoration. Its most important mission is to call more people's attention to the tragedy, to commemorate the compatriots who died in the Holocaust, and to commemorate those who helped us in difficult times. . However, in terms of expressing the truth of human nature and reflecting on the cruelty of war, redemption has different powers in artistic appeal. However, at present, the Japanese right-wing forces are still denying the Nanjing Massacre, and there are still many people in the world who know nothing about it. Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to photograph the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of redemption. It also takes time to slowly wash away the sins and wait for the slumbering conscience to wake up.
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