The Flowers of War

                                                      (This pic comes from Google Image)

I remembered that I mentioned this movie is the one I most hated Chinese movie recently in the fist class.
It did and I still do. The first thing I came up with after I saw this movie was..
"Did Chinese directores always like using this piece tragic history to touch audiences?"
I really can't understand that. There are already lots of Chinese based on this history.
It's kind of "genre" of Chinese film
You must quite curious about what is the history and why Chinese like this history a lot.
I can only describe it a little bit as a Chinese, there are thousands version of this history in the world but to Chinese, it was really a tragic and sad memory. Also, it's kind of sensitive topic in China.

This memory name "The Rape of Nanking" and you can search amount of pics and information on Internet and you will definitely shocked. This even  serious influences almost three generations ofChinese.  It was thousand times serious than the harmful of 911 in American people's mind. It was a tragic that war brought to China. Why Chinese people think the extremely inhuman thing that Japan might did to Chinese especially for Chinese female were true? Because there are still lots of victims are alive now, they maybe are grandma for some youngs. They are willing to speak out what happend to them during the war before they died. I saw some interviews of those victims on TV，they said they have duty to help our country to approve it was true and have duty to certify this history as they swept out. To be honest, I hate to see those documents and hate to argue with other about this history. It hearts.

This is the reason why I hate these kind of movies. They are using people's harmful memories to make money. I don't think it's a good way to show the world how the victims were poor.

There are several films based on this topic such as:

                                                          City of Life and Death (2009)

                                                            Nanking (2007)

Don't Cry Nanking

Flag of Honor

(All photos and information comes from Wikipedia, IMDb, Google Image)

Even though the directors try to make Chinese people and Chinese female seems as tough and strong as possible, are these good way to showing the tragic?I don't think so. I hope those directors can treat this history much more seriously and don't turn it into entreatment.