Eternals poster
After watching the Marvel movie "The Eternals", the glasses were broken.
Leaving aside the viewing nature of the film itself, and not to mention the racial, same-sex families, and religious and cultural factors that cater to the caters, when the eternal people's tech masters appeared and cried in the ruins of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, I was stunned and felt that it had subverted a lot of things.
It's hard to imagine that this is an American film directed by a Chinese-American director. The blurring of the nature of war has always allowed the Japanese to constantly revise their understanding of war in multiple versions.
I think of another movie that hit Japan a few years ago, Forever 0, which is based on the novel of the same name by a Japanese right-wing writer that tells the "glory" story of a young Japanese who joined the kamikaze.
After the film was released in Japan in December 2013, it topped the Japanese box office for several consecutive weeks, with 7 million viewers and a population of 126 million, which means that at least half of the Japanese people went to the cinema in those weeks. Among them was then-Prime Minister Abe, who is said to have been deeply moved after watching it, and he has been in tears when he watched it.
Unlike the loyal fanaticism of the kamikaze in previous films, "Forever 0" deliberately transforms the objects they guard into families and relatives, and the director tries to give it so-called "legitimacy" with an ordinary person's emotion, and then "positiveizes" fascism and aggressive wars, making them conform to the "shell" of modern human values.
In the film, when the male protagonist's grandfather pilots a Zero fighter jet over the current Tokyo, the fanatical kamikaze agents become The "heroes" of Japan.
Whether it's the outcome or the meaning, those people are not good
However, if they were heroes, then our history would be impossible to write, and the tens of millions of Chinese civilians who died tragically under their butcher's knife became the unjust souls of those who died in vain. Occupation and plunder became a matter of course, and the great sacrifice of the Chinese nation in the past 14 years was meaningless.
That's the scary part.
Screenshot of the movie
Some people say how is this possible? How can the world-known history change? Not necessarily, China has suffered many such losses in the past. As a way of cultural output, the guiding role of film cannot be underestimated, especially those with ulterior motives but beautifully packaged films.
"History on an individual scale is inherently the most extremely sensitive, and the slightest footstep alerts all its measuring instruments. This is the most moving, humane, and dangerous of all histories. This is a quote from the French historian Fernand Braudel.
This is a concern: some historical facts, if not deliberately distorted by the parties, will be blurred and difficult to see the original appearance, and those deliberately fabricated or even distorted narratives will also shape the "memory" of past history for future generations.
Written by predecessors, corrected by later generations. The power of time is too strong, and after several years of people's understanding of history has been "rebuilt" by generations, how many people still agree with the truth of history?
Correspondingly, the witnesses of historical events continue to disappear, they stand opposite the reshaping of historical memory, and in a limited time, silently resist the reshaping of historical memory.
On August 15, 2017, documentary filmmaker Guo Ke's work "Twenty-Two" was released, in which 22 elderly protagonists told the world about the crimes of the Japanese invaders. When the documentary was released five years ago, the name was "Thirty-Two."
In October 2018, the number of them still alive was 6.
And once, they were 200,000...
One way of saying it hurts: they've spent their whole lives waiting for an apology, while Japan is waiting for them to die!
The passage of time is one-way, and historical revisionists are good at post-mortification and always seem to be profitable.
But time is objective, try to pull the long line, you will find that the result of self-cleverness must be to lift a stone and drop it on your feet. Japan's defeat in World War II was the result of Japan's attempts to revise history again and again with fanatical wars based on security since the Meiji Restoration.
A country can certainly have its own national history and war memories, but there is a difference between memory and dreams. "Militarism is a big sweet dream", but dreams always have a time to wake up.
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