"Purple Sun"
Written and directed by Feng Xiaoning and co-starring Fu Dalong, Maeda Zhihui and Anna Jenilalova, the war drama film was released in China on April 11, 2001, and is set against the backdrop of the end of World War II in 1945, telling the story of how three young people of different nationalities, after experiencing a major life-and-death test, turned from hostility to friends.
As an anti-Japanese theme film, it has no hand-torn devils, no heroic deeds, no guns and bullets, and some are just the struggles and contradictions of the three small characters of China, Japan and Russia outside the war, but its depth of thinking can kill most of the domestic obscene anti-Japanese works.
The film does not focus on the war itself, but returns to people to reflect on the harm caused by war to all mankind, but also to warn you no matter which country you are, no matter what your beliefs are, whether you are a so-called "winner" or a "loser" Once you are in the war, everyone will become a victim, Yang Yufu wants to complain but he does not know who to complain to, Qiu Yezi? But she has also lost all her family and lover, and Nadya, who should she ask for her son? That's the terrible thing about war is that it puts you in a fanatical collective, just imagine when your countrymen have been instilling with you that someone is coming to kill us, so we have to kill them first, or some countryman should kill them.
When this kind of thinking dominates in the two collectives, then the two collectives will eventually only hate each other and hurt each other, just like Qiu Yezi and Yang Yufu, two people who have never known each other, want to kill each other the first time they meet, because they are indoctrinated in their minds with the idea that the other party will hurt themselves first, and it is the little light of humanity that pulls them back, but who can remain calm and human when they are in the collective?
In The Wave, it says that we exclude all those who oppose us from the collective, that we hurt them, that we don't even know what we're doing. Maybe the role of this kind of film is to guide us to reflect and at the same time to warn us, maybe the more sober people the world will be better.