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"Nanjing! Nanjing!" tells a story against the background of the "Nanjing Massacre". There are two lines in the film. Through the experience of an ordinary Japanese soldier and an ordinary Chinese soldier during the Nanjing Massacre, it reveals that behind the疯狂killing, raping and plundering in Nanjing in 1937, the cruelty of war to human nature.
This film, based on a large amount of detailed and meticulous historical investigation, with excellent production means, with more heavy quality than general epic blockbusters, restores the dead city of Nanjing in the gloomy cold winter 70 years ago. It takes the resistance will of Chinese people and the spiritual struggle of an ordinary Japanese soldier as the main line, providing a Nanjing completely different from the previous historical narrative. A Nanjing even with the spark of hope. Because in this city, at this place between life and death, even facing desperate situation, even facing the ruthless rolling over of the war machine, there would still be the underground fire of Chinese humanity burning secretly, there would still be people taking their lives, blood and will as fuel, maintaining this underground fire, making it never go out.
The film begins with the breaking of Nanjing City in December 1937. Although a large number of Kuomintang soldiers fled out of the city, at the same time, a great deal of soldiers who were not willing to surrender stayed behind and carried out hopeless but fierce resistance in the streets and alleys of the city. Among them was Lu Jianxiong (Liu Ye), a member of the elite force of Kuomintang.
After the final failure of the resistance, after the blood of hundreds of thousands of Chinese finally dyed Yangtze River red, the whole city of Nanjing became a dead land. The only place still having vitality left was the "safe area" located in Jinling Women's College. Here, a large number of refugees temporarily gained a chance to take a breath because of the "Nazi" identity of Rabe. But actually took charge of the refugee work in the safe area were Mr Tang (Fan Wei), secretary of Rabe, and repatriated female teacher Jiang Shuyun (Gao Yuanyuan).
However, in the eyes of Japanese troops, so-called "safe area" was just a "warehouse" accumulating a large number of female resources. And Rabe's German identity was just a piece of covering cloth which could be torn away any time in front of the strong Japanese army. While Chinese women used their bodies not only to save men hidden in the refugee camp, but also wrote a strong history of Chinese people in front of Rabe.
The image shaping of Japanese military personnel is a breakthrough of this movie. As occupiers, they, of course, can enjoy normal life in a certain sense. However, in Nanjing city where war factors have been extremely magnified, even the occupiers, even when facing others' humiliation and death, cannot avoid the shaking or even questioning of their own souls.
Kakazu (Hero of Zhongquan) was an ordinary soldier of the sixteenth division of Japanese army. He was sensitive, naive, and had not even had a girlfriend before participating in the war. He was called by his teammates as "the person who has read books". On the other hand, his fellow countryman Captain Yitian (Dragon of Moban), was already a veteran, a professional soldier. During the "life" as the occupier in Nanjing city, Kakazu experienced all kinds of human price paid to maintain such kind of "life". Kakazu eventually made his choice: he sent two Chinese survivors out of Nanjing city, then committed suicide by shooting himself.
This movie completely breaks through the intentional ignoring of Chinese existence and wrong description of "powerless Chinese people" in various historical works and literary and artistic works about the Nanjing tragedy in the past; provides a new perspective for world audiences to understand this history, is also a brand-new writing of Chinese national image in the Nanjing disaster. It provides a brand-new historical thinking of this painful part of history in Chinese history at a new height.
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