Merry Christmas, folks.
Every Christmas, I always think back to some films, from the sweet "True Love Supreme" to the innocent "Charlie Brown's Christmas".
Of course, there are also sad stories, such as the one that Ma Po wants to recommend today.
Merry Christmas on the battlefield
merry christmas mr. lawrence
Christmas is originally a word full of happiness, but will Christmas on battlefield mountain still be red and green warmth?
Ma Po prefers another translation of the film, blunt warmth , Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
The film is based on the novel The Seed and the Sower by British writer Lawrence Baust.
He was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 36th Cannes Film Festival, with a Douban score of 8.8.
The director is Nagisa Oshima, and his most well-known film is "Sensory World", I believe many people have heard it, and may not have seen it.
This film does not have any straightforward emotional and sexual depictions, but there is still a kind of lingering desire to say goodbye.
And the cast is also super powerful, a generation of legendary David Bowie, still very young Takeshi Kitano, music masters Ryuichi Sakamoto and Tom Kandy, the whole film does not have a woman, but the overall appearance is still high.
During World War II in 1942, the Indonesian island of Java, a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
Army Captain Senoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto) and Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano) jointly manage the detention center, the former sergeant is ruthless, he never shows mercy to European and American prisoners of war, and he is also very strict with his soldiers, and sticks are commonplace.
Senoi is handsome and generally mild-mannered.
British captive Lawrence (Tom Conti) is fluent in Japanese and occasionally interacts with the Japanese, and has a delicate relationship with the former sergeant.
Sergeant Hara was fierce and would beat him, but the two could occasionally get along like friends.
Soon, another British officer was sent, his name was Jack, who organized a guerrilla war and wounded several Japanese soldiers, but the Japanese army threatened the people in the village, so he had to surrender.
Originally, he was going to be executed during the trial, but Senoi, who was present, stopped the judge.
Jack was seriously injured and began to cultivate at this point, but Senoi became unusually nervous because of his arrival.
At that time, a Japanese soldier and a Dutch prisoner had sex in the shelter, which was an intolerable crime.
The Japanese soldiers were forced to commit suicide by death.
All the other captives were forced to watch the whole process, with Lawrence and Jack taking the lead in protest, and then they were all locked up.
Sergeant Hara released Lawrence and Jack on Christmas Eve, and he said to Lawrence, "Merry Christmas, Lawrence." ”
The British captive captain refused to provide Senoi with a list of POW Ordnancers and officers who could operate cannons, and Senoui decided to execute him.
Seeing that the captain was about to be killed, Jack rushed over and hugged and kissed Senoi on the cheek in front of all the captives and Japanese soldiers.
The captain was rescued, but Jack was buried in the dirt, leaving only a head exposed to the sun.
Before he died, Senoi cut off a handful of his hair.
After the war, Lawrence met the former sergeant again in prison, and the two now exchange identities.
Before Lawrence left, the former sergeant said to Lawrence again: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!"
If you really watch this film at Christmas, if the viewer still happens to be a person celebrating Christmas, it is really unbearable to see, and it is estimated that you will cry.
Therefore, although Ma Po recommends this film, it is not recommended that one person watch it at this happy time.
In fact, except for a few words of "Merry Christmas", the whole movie has nothing to do with Christmas, it is more about showing a cultural difference and extremely restrained feelings.
It has always been felt that Japan's belly-cutting culture is very bloody and inhumane, and it can even become a symbol of courage and glory.
As long as a thing is beautified to a certain extent, it can make people go forward and die, which is actually a very terrible thing.
People in it don't feel anything, and people standing behind history always feel unbelievable when judging, which may be "the authorities are obsessed with bystanders and clear".
Finally, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and peace.