C'est la vie--生活的每一天

           

The film is roughly dealing with two heated topics, massacre and rape, or comfort women.

NK first struck me by filming in black and white, making it more life-like or documentary-like, every emotion and expression not being skipped. Thanks to the black and white, it made the bloodshed scenes less scary, but more distressed. The fear to be killed in the eyes of the kmt soldiers, the determination to fight back, shooting aimlessly at the innocent civilians, burying residents alive, the floating cops, the kindness to help your fellows survive, the sinister smirk of nasty Japanese killers, the gun shot on and off, all of these made my heart hammer and almost get my heart attack.

When seeing defeated soldiers enclosed in the confined space, I saw some of the surrendered soldiers trying to flee and not ready to combat before, who ended in the same fate by shooting rampage. I wondered, at that moment that, if you defended the city before, at least you died for honor not cowardliness. Even though you shouted long live china, did it help? Shame on you!

If the killing makes NK unbearable, seeing the comfort women suffer the sexual violence is excruciating. As a young and educated lady, I feel really indignant to see the ignorant women play the mahjong, who did not know the imminent dangers were edging or perils were already waiting for you, which reminds me of the stanza in poem “A Mooring On The Qin Huai River (夜泊秦淮)”, “Where girls, with no thought of a perished kingdom, Gaily echo A Song of Courtyard Flowers (商女不知亡国恨，隔江犹唱后庭花)”. I don’t know whether the director feels pitiful for or somewhat looks down upon them in this scene. I feel shameful for them. When they suffered the rape or other sexual abuses, I hyperventilated, and at the very moment, I feel discreditable for those who like watching Japanese porn. I just saw the animal instincts of men, especially the perverts. I feel terrible when I still see some women still have no idea what education means to them, who just simply want to get married to a rich man.

Before going, I was reminded that the movie would upset you from the beginning till the end, no time to give you any second to breathe. Remember to bring tissues. When seeing it, an ocean of grief washed me over and over again, even drowned me there.

NK is worth seeing to some extent, but I kept counting the time down because it is horrifying and I did not know what to expect, for the event to come will be far worse.

Can this be forgiven and forgotten? Can we do what the Jesus did to Judas? I guess it is very complicated. Perhaps they can be forgiven, but we will never forget what you did to us.


Defects or spoilers

There are some defects, in my point of view, in NK. I bet that there is no teachers in the movie, for the Chinese explanatory (in the not obvious left side and it is exactly the unclear and not bold characters) of the English backdrop information is not crystally clear to me due to my poor eyesight and my seat in the far back of the hall. I guess I will cover certain part of the movie again to get the full idea. As an English major, it is not easy to read fast through the letters, too short for me to figure out the words.

The character, the Japanese soldier, I don’t know how to say his name, who I like to call j. I know he is an artistic creation in order to reason those conservative Japanese politicians or fooled public. However, he does not look real or practical to me. I don’t even believe there was a single guy feeling this way. In NK, at the last few minutes, he let go of the child and the man. Then he shot himself, and the moment, the two free men felt shocked and looked for bullet holes in themselves. Of course, they are perfectly safe and the child, for the first time, laughed a laugh from the bottom of his heart, which I think the director intentionally tries to give us hope. Well… is it too unnatural to invent this scene? to me, it seems that the japanese guy gave them freedom, not ally or fellow chinese.

如斯男友

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●Thank  DOVELOVELUGE

我的这位姐姐，心地善良，心软耳朵也软，脑子有点不太灵光，没有什么主意(抱歉，我用词过重)。也许是受的教育极少，农村姑娘，家里贫困，兄弟姐妹众多，作为老大，为减轻家庭负担，到我家来工作了8年。接着在外面闯荡多年，年龄长了，见识多了，但难以逃脱传统观念的束缚，结婚生子。也许正如人所说，要在行情走俏的时候嫁出去。据她所说，她似乎没有这样的时期。

       希望我的乌鸦嘴不要说中！我潜意识的感到这个男的有问题。很多时候都是女的怕男的把自己甩了。我怕此人有什么不可告人的秘密或者恶习。爸爸说，农村30岁还没有结婚的男子确实少，27，28就有。上天保佑姐姐！！

      还是那种根深蒂固的传统观念残害女性！女性必须得到良好的教育，一定要有自己的主见！婚姻生活不见得对每一个人都是好的，不见得单身日子都有害。难道女性一定在27岁前，也就是所谓行情走俏时把自己卖出去？不能在流通市场里了？在这个还是男权为主导的社会里，女性的地位我真的不见长！陪酒等一些都是给女性的…

     女性真的要在思想上松绑！否则即使你表面似乎很自由，但是实际上和这狗狗没有区别，还是被牵制着。