KANO: Pro-Japanese or Anti-Japanese? Another blood-stained style

Last year, there were two local films in Taiwan that broke through the 300 million box office, one was "DaDaocheng" directed by Ye Tianlun and starring Pig Geliang, and the other was "KANO" produced by Wei Desheng and directed by Ma Zhixiang, both of which were based on local history and culture, the former's time travel and comedy techniques were slightly fancy, and the latter was bent on purely recreating a true story that occurred in 1931, the Chiayi Agricultural and Forestry School (Jianong) wild team, a group of young teams composed of Japanese, Han and indigenous people under the leadership of Japanese coaches. From 0 wins all the way to the final of Japan's Koshien.

The blood of teenagers, the pitch, the green mountains and rivers, the flow of time, let people get drunk, plus a little bit of history, has become the best Chinese movie in 2014 in the minds of many people. Of course, it's a bit reluctant to say it's a Chinese film, because more than 90% of the lines are in Japanese.

This is a movie that is beautiful from the inside out to the extreme, whether it is the bicycle of Xiao Wu and his girlfriend, or the wild running of teenagers chasing hats in the field, or the shouts on the court, the picture is beautiful to the heart. We will also feel very beautiful when we watch "Budapest Hotel" and "Hibernation", but that is the beauty of commercial, industrial or artistic artificial carving, the beauty of "KANO" comes from the more simple agricultural and forestry landscape, from the simple desire of teenagers for competition, which is the natural beauty that no big scene or stunt artist can process, and is completely captured by the creator's heart.

As you may all know, "KANO" is controversial, this controversy is not only in the mainland, the media can not report, Douban has no information, in Taiwan, its controversy is also very large, Golden Horse can not win the award. The problem is that Wei Desheng's films have always been suspected of being pro-Japanese. In his previous directors, "Cape Seven" and "SaidekBalai" both had this problem, distant love, close friendship, Taiwanese people did not seem to hate the devil at all, but some cultural and spiritual disconnection, the Wushe uprising seemed to be just a grudge between indigenous tribes and outsiders, rather than resisting aggression should be so resolute. In "KANO", this sense of reconciliation is even more obvious, Taiwan during the Japanese occupation period is depicted poetically, grain is abundant, colonists and colonizers live in harmony, and even in the school, fields and stadiums are intimate, in the same boat, such a scene is actually not only watching "Tunnel Warfare" and "Slaughter City Blood Certificate" Growing up Chinese audiences have not seen, for Taiwanese audiences, it is also the first time that a big girl has been on a car.

So why does "KANO" not have the same sky that we have always seen in textbooks and film and television works, and why Taiwan during the Japanese occupation period is not a hell on earth, but a paradise, rich and joyful, and many Taiwanese can speak fluent Japanese. The answer is not complicated, because the filmmakers respect the truth and shoot the wild teams on the field, not the eight hundred heroes on the battlefield. Talking about it here, the author on the contrary feels that Wei Ma and his two dare to risk the world's great disobedience, and it is a brave move to make such a "pro-Japanese" movie.

The tragic mountains and rivers of the Japanese occupation period, the court of Koshien has another blood-stained style of Chinese teenagers, which is not a kind of anti-Japanese resistance, so that you can see history more clearly.

Anti-Japanese resistance, in fact, can have several different levels of expression, the lower end is a bullet to eliminate an enemy-style YY work, many of these movies in those years, the children to see the cool, but also the concept of history to mislead, and then "The Devil is Coming", the intention is more profound, the shortcomings and advantages are the same, that is, too cattle (zhuang) forced, not ordinary people can accept. Then there is "Blood Battle Taierzhuang", which at least restores history to a certain extent, and above is the defense films such as "Wolf Mountain Blood Record" and "Cross Street", which have clear meanings, drama and reality are very completely blended, and "A River of Spring Water Flows East" and "Red Sorghum" are also anti-Japanese films with extremely high artistic value.

To resist Japan, it is not necessary to meet each other with swords and soldiers, and when Japan occupied Taiwan or northeast China, it was not just three or eight large covers and bayonets.

The value of "KANO" lies in expressing the mind of modern people with another story, telling only a history that belongs purely to agriculture and wild spheres. It expresses a clear and resentful view of history.

In the 30s of last century, Taiwan did have a very rich time, of which the credit of the Japanese is not small, compared with the rest of Asia, Japan in order to plunder for a long time, to Taiwan imported a lot of civilians and talents to participate in the construction, the most famous character is the beloved water conservancy technician Hata Yoichi in the movie, he designed the largest water conservancy project in Asia at that time, The construction period lasted ten years, officially opened in 1930, so that Taiwan's rice production at that time had a leap, From this, you can feel the excitement of Jiannong's children meeting The Yachida technician in the field.

Many people do not agree that KANO only shows the good side of the Japanese occupation period, completely ignores the atrocities of the Japanese, and has also protested. Tie Ren felt that this movie was more dignified than "Sidekbar", at least, the people here did not have self-contempt, but had a kind of equality and hard work.

Because history cannot be reversed, the truth cannot be tampered with, so how should our films record and face up to this history, "KANO" is definitely more meaningful than "Jinling Thirteen Chao" and "Raise Your Hand", because it can prove that we are truly objective and positive, rather than extreme to watch this war. Therefore, "KANO" does not mean that the humiliation of being colonized is forgotten, but it is more in contrast to the cruelty of war. If you erase the stories of Hatta Technician and Kana Nan Daigen, Coach Kondo and The Kanono team, it means that Chinese films have lost the credibility of facing history.

It is precisely because of "KANO" that history emerges in the light and shadow, and all love and hate have a foundation, bidding farewell to the former paleness.

Taiwan has the blood of teenagers out of youth, those inspiring game scenes, the passion of the whole Taiwan to win the championship and enter the Koshien, Xiao Wu bloody insists on the game, after losing the final, the audience applauds the defeated Jianong, these Chinese films have never had the blood, clean blood, is what modern young people lack the most. The actors who interpret these hot-blooded teenagers are young people who have no professional acting experience, and their performance without evidence is the same as the overall temperament of the film, giving people a natural beauty. For example, there are several actors in "Tuina" who are really close to reality, because they are almost indistinguishable from the role, but you have to admit that it does not awaken more charm of the character (watch kick me, my favorite mainland film last year is "Tuina").

The existence of "KANO" is the reason why Taiwanese films have always made people feel full of vitality for many years, just like Xiao Bi, Xiao Si, Zhang Shihao, generations of teenagers, constantly supporting the unstable Taiwanese films and bringing new hope.

Too complete is also a flaw and finally I want to prove that I am not a brain fan of Taiwanese movies. "KANO" has a soul-snatching beauty, but it is far from perfect, in the vertical comparison of Taiwan's good movies of past generations, it is too plump, too sleek, far less concise and sharp than the veterans of the new movies, atmospheric and pure blue, not as good as Cai Liangliang has a sensitive soul.

If I had to make a mistake, kano's mistake was to make an imperfect era too beautiful, because to show one kind of temperament, it lost another kind of temperament.

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