I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm fascinated by it. In Merry Christmas in the Battlefield, when the hero met the British major Jack for the first time, when his decisive face suddenly softened, I seemed to understand what love at first sight was and what meeting was, which I could no longer hide.
As the camera progressed, Shi, who was sitting on the military trial bench, looked at Zhang Shuai's charm, blinked uneasily and pursed his lips slightly. Under the face of trying to calm down, it is forbidden love that wants to gush out. Maybe, falling in love with someone, that's it. So cautious, so scared, so unbearable.
Yeah, I can't help it. Knowing that it is self-destructive is like a moth to a fire. Such love can be called heroic; Such love makes people sad.
After watching Merry Christmas in the Battlefield, I racked my brains for the document. In the past two hours, this film has expressed too much: war, history, tyranny, humanity, faith, redemption ... I don't know where to start. However, in the end, I decided to follow Jack's same-sex love in Noyo, because it is too difficult for Ryuichi Sakamoto, who is in uniform and unique in the world, not to fall in love with him.
1942, World War II, Japanese officers and British prisoners of war, such a time, such an opposing identity, conflicts and contradictions in the film came into being, so, water under the bridge, flood.
Shinohai, dressed in military uniform, was deeply infiltrated by militarism and believed in the spirit of Bushido. He is an out-and-out soldier of the Great Japanese Empire. Such a resolute, brave and arrogant person seems to be unable to escape from fate. At the height of his spirits, he met Jack, a British major who ran counter to his culture, values and beliefs.
It is unexpected and understandable that darkness falls in love with light. At first, it was hard to understand why Shinji fell in love with a doomed person. After thinking for a long time, I suddenly understood that maybe Shinohai could not extricate himself from his love for Jack because the other person was the one he longed to be but was destined to be. British Major Jack is confident, handsome, elegant and a gentleman. He is a symbol of freedom and faith. This symbol is exactly what Beijing, which is deeply infiltrated by militarism, does not have, and it is also the repressed and forbidden personal desire.
Therefore, falling in love is inevitable.
"Put on your clothes." I couldn't help laughing when Shi said this to Jack, who was half naked, but I couldn't help laughing and laughing. Jealous? If you understand it this way, it is too superficial. Shi, who believes in militarism and the spirit of Bushido, doesn't understand why he is uncharacteristically trying to save this beautiful man who has lost his heart. All he knows is that he wants to do it. So, he did.
So, the tragedy began.
My lover is Lori, and one day, she will pick me up on the army of paper men. "The Unintentional Wizard" II is over. Yue who says "Zhang Xianzong, I have a toothache" will never leave. No one in the world loves me, Yue. How many people are disappointed with your feelings and sigh, deeply touched.
Yue, you are obviously a cruel villain, but you make many people feel bad. Just like in "Merry Christmas in the Battlefield", Jack mistakenly thought that he was sentenced to death, and after the gunfire rang, he was afraid and glad that he was born again. At this time, the stone dressed in a uniform came slowly towards him from behind like a world hero.
Yes, he saved him and a prisoner who should have been sentenced to death. After that, everything was logical and natural. Jack is escorted to a prison camp managed by Shi and O 'Hara (ornaments). At this time, the cruel and tyrannical part of the film, taboo love mixed with hatred for the enemy, was vividly presented to the audience by Zhudao with accurate shooting techniques.
02
After arriving at the prison camp, Jack fainted and met his old friend Lawrence (the person who helped the Japanese manage the British prisoners of war in the prison camp was also a prisoner of war). When the Japanese soldiers knocked Lawrence to the ground, Shi came quickly from a distance and beat the Japanese soldiers mercilessly. Then, when the camera turns, Shi asks Lawrence if he knows Jack. And asked Staff Sergeant O 'Hara to take Jack to the infirmary immediately.
At this time, the forbidden love between Shi and Jack became more and more obvious.
Yes, if you fall in love, no matter how duplicity, it is also shattered glass, in vain.
What kind of person is he? Is he your friend? Shi mentioned Jack to Lawrence through the shutters in a dull tone, seemingly unintentionally, hoping to learn more about Jack through Lawrence.
Emotion trumps reason, that's all. However, reason will tear emotions, and Shi struggles and suffers in this forbidden love and refuses to face it squarely. Therefore, he selectively ignored Lawrence's question: Why do you care so much about Jack?
In the middle of the night, when Lawrence and Staff Sergeant O 'Hara were chatting as friends in a British prison camp, Shi took a Japanese military doctor to visit the injured Jack. In the dark, he looked at Jack's unstoppable face as if it were the answer to Lawrence's question during the day.
It seems that your coming has inspired his animal nature. In the face of the behavior of tempering the will with stones and strengthening the intensity of fencing class, Lawrence joked to Jack. Yes, when Jack came, he woke up the wild animals in the wild well. In other words, Jack aroused Noi's desire, and he was the concrete place of his desire. However, Noi must suppress this desire, which will destroy him.
"They are an anxious people. As individuals, they can't do anything. So they choose madness and collective madness. " This is a film shot by Takeshima for the Japanese, which contains the exposure and criticism of Japan's atrocities in World War II, as well as the collision and conflict between eastern and western cultures. And this sentence, to borrow Lawrence's words, can be described as hitting the nail on the head.
At the beginning of the film, Staff Sergeant Taiyuan pulls out a gay couple and insults them in front of Lawrence. Lawrence stopped Shi, and Shi didn't show much dislike for homosexuals. But this does not mean that he accepts that he is gay, even though homosexuality is prevalent in prison camps.
Just because, in Noe's idea, forbidden love will reduce people's will and increase people's laziness, which is contrary to the Bushido spirit he believes in, he refused himself and even gathered all the prisoners in the prison camp, sentenced gay Japanese soldiers to death in front of everyone and allowed him to commit suicide by caesarean section.
This means that at that time, it was an unforgivable sin for homosexuals to commit suicide by caesarean section to the emperor. This judgment is not so much a trial of homosexuals as a warning from the stone and a trial of oneself. Unfortunately, he failed.
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"Who do you think you are? Are you an evil spirit? "
"Yes, I hope I am one of your evil spirits."
When Jack stood in front of the wild well with flowers in his hand, even though he was held down by several Japanese soldiers, he still looked at the wild well with a smile. Wild well, who has always been decisive in the war, can't stop shaking. It seems that he has exhausted all his strength to ask this sentence. If you are not an evil spirit, why do you want to turn my world upside down? If you are not an evil spirit, why are you torturing me? Yes, Jack, you are an evil spirit, the evil spirit of Shi Ye Well.
"Yes, I hope I am one of your evil spirits." Jack, for Shi, is redemption, untouchable but taboo love. Therefore, in the face of Jack's bold and provocative behavior in the prison camp, the underground organization in Shi Ye ordered Jack to be imprisoned instead of being sentenced to death. He couldn't bear to kill him. He is protecting his light and his salvation in his own way.
At this time, everyone saw the difference of Yu Gang Shi Ye. So there was the incident that Noi's private soldiers assassinated Jack in the middle of the afterlife. Jack, you must also know that Shinji loves you. Otherwise, you won't kiss Shinohai at night to give you a blanket to keep out the cold, and you won't put down your knife and look at Shinohai with a calm smile when you escape and ask for a fight.
Yes, are you sure he won't kill you? "He is a demon, and he will destroy your soul." You see, the soldier who assassinated you answered Shi's question. You see, everyone in the prison camp knows that you are different from him, or that he has forbidden love for you.
So, when Sergeant O 'Hara raised his gun at you and said, "I'm going to kill him," Sergeant turned and stood in front of you, blocking the gun pointed at you.
In love, people who fall in love first always make people feel distressed. Zhang Xianzong's sentence "Never mind, I love you, let's get back together" in The Unintentional Wizard has warmed many people's hearts. However, you and Yue are not enemies of life and death. You are not opposing sides. You love her, even if you lose your life for her.
Your love is her fire, you keep an eye on her; She killed someone, you buried her body, and then you took the fall for her. However, Shi's love for Jack was blocked by the hatred of Chou He and the barriers of faith.
The heavy atmosphere of depression, tension, suffocation and collapse in the film reaches its climax when Jack comes forward to kiss Noi. How many people saw this shocking picture and burst into tears. How accurate and profound Zhudao's understanding and grasp of human nature should be, so that he can shoot such kisses in silence, even more than they tell in their voices.
04
At first, I didn't think Jack liked Ye Jing, did I? But later, when I was enjoying the film, I found it. Jack stood among the prisoners of war, took a good look at Shi Ye, who was handsome and tall in military uniform, and said to Lawrence next to him, "I want to sing"; Jack looked at Shi Ye well and said, "Is it beautiful?"
Jack has always felt guilty for betraying his younger brother when he was young. He always wanted to redeem himself, others and himself. So, Jack wants to save the commander (the leader of the British prisoners of war, trying to preserve the dignity of the British prisoners of war under the pressure of the Japanese army), or he wants to save the wild.
Jack adjusted his clothes and walked slowly forward to Shi Ye Weil, who was going to kill the commander with a knife. After being pushed to the ground by Shi Ye Weil, Jack stood up, hugged Shi Ye Weil slowly and firmly, and kissed him boldly and surprisingly.
This kiss is a temptation, a proof and a redemption.
Shi Yejing, who loves Jack, was so ashamed and trembling with this kiss. Finally, after a few seconds, he couldn't help but faint. And jack, you seem to be free. You let Japanese soldiers rush at you and kick you.
Waiting for you, only death, only death.
Perhaps, only death is the real liberation and the real salvation; Perhaps only death, the love between you two, the hatred between the country and the enemy, and the irresistible fate that you can't break free will shake your heart and shake your mind.
"Shi asked me to take a strand of Jack's hair back to my hometown in Japan and offer it at the shrine in my hometown."
Yes, World War II was over and Japan was defeated. As a Japanese officer who committed various evils during World War II, Shi deserved to be punished and executed by the victorious country. At the end of the film, we learn from Lawrence that Noe passed away. His last wish was to take a strand of Jack's hair back to his hometown in Japan and put it in his hometown shrine.
In ancient times, there was a saying that "there is no doubt about being married and loving each other". In the face of Jack's death, Ye Jing was helpless. They stood on the opposite side of life and death and offended Jack of the Great Japanese Empire. Only death is death.
On the night when Jack was buried alive, the stone in military uniform came to the place where Jack was buried alive in the bleak night. Those affectionate eyes explain what it's like to see a million years at a time. Take the knife out of his pocket, bend down slowly, and carefully cut off a strand of Jack's hair. Finally, I stood up, came to Jack and bowed.
Cutting hair is a lover; Bow, it's a soldier. Such struggles and tears can only be interpreted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
I have to admit that the pattern of this film review is very small, even indecent, and I can forgive my willfulness. Forgive me for entering the play once.
These two days have been a single cycle of the theme song of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Merry Christmas in the Battlefield. Starting from the face value, I am trapped in acting and loyal to my talents. Perhaps Merry Christmas in the Battlefield, directed by Oshima and starring Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Baum and Kitano Takeshi, will become a classic and make me believe in love when I want bread instead of love.
Perhaps, we don't believe in love, because we are afraid that love will destroy our unrestrained self;
Maybe we don't believe in love because that person hasn't appeared yet;
Maybe, one day, we will say to ourselves now, I met.
(This film review is slightly romantic, so don't spray it if you don't like it. )