A month after Japan's defeat, the large number of starving corpses in the Kobe Railway Station was too late to collect them! A boy named Qingtai, whose soul was reluctant to leave, looked at his own corpse, his clothes torn and covered in mud lying on the floor of the train station. The cleaner looked disgusted and smiled and took the candy jar from the boy's arms: What is this? Pitching is generally thrown out of the train station hall.
The soul of the little girl Jiezi slowly stood up, and the light of the lantern-like fireflies shone on her. A pair of palms gently patted her, and she turned her head, and her brother Qingta was watching her.
The little girl Jiezi, who did not understand things, became a victim of the War waged by Japan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Li Mei fire attack. Killed more than a nuclear explosion in Nagasaki, Hiroshima. </h1>
Kiyota lives with her sister in Kobe, Japan, and her mother has a heart attack, but Kiyota's father is a Japanese naval officer, and the family's life is still going on. Sister Setsuko is young and is a very cute little girl.
With the development of the war, Japan's defeat has been irreparable, and the US B29 "Super Fortress" bomber can already bomb the Japanese mainland. Conventional bombs initially used by the U.S. military caused limited casualties. For the US military, this has not yet achieved the goal of achieving strategic victory. In January 1945, Maj. Gen. Curtis Lime was appointed commander of the 21st Bomber Force. General Li Mei, after familiarizing himself with the situation, used the fire attack strategy for the first time on the night of February 23, and the first target was directed at Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Small-scale bombing worked well and gained experience for future large-scale fire attacks.
A large number of wooden structure houses were a prerequisite for the US military fire attack, and how much damage was caused by this shortcoming. Do you know why Japan fosters pro-Japanese elements?
On March 9, 1945, General Li Mei concentrated 334 B29s, first dropping flares at the four corners of the bombing area, and then bombers dotted lines in the illuminated area, and carried out napalm bomb throwing in the block. The burning hot air and the cold air form an air convection, instantly igniting all the substances that can burn in Tokyo. A total of 84,000 people died, 100,000 were seriously injured and 1 million left homeless! The worst was near the Tokyo Bridge, where a large number of people crowded onto the bridge because the fire was burning from both sides, and there was no way to escape. Layers of people were burned into coke on the bridge, the water of the Tokyo River was boiled, and no one who jumped into the river to escape survived.
The power of the incendiary bomb was amazing, and the Americans hated Japan very much at that time, and the hand was dead!
This was the effect of a single operation, and the U.S. military also used a fire attack strategy to bomb other Japanese cities. This film depicts the bombing of Kobe by the US military.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > brother Kiyota doesn't deserve sympathy. </h1>
With the death of her younger sister Setsuko, her brother Kiyota is at least half responsible. His father's officer status made him somewhat proud, and his character was more stubborn, not realizing that the war had deprived him of all the capital he could be proud of. Eroded by Japanese militarism, he also had belligerent ideas.
Chinese version says: Daddy will avenge them! Facing the Japanese warships, he made no secret of his pride.
His pride and stubbornness made him leave his aunt's house and live in the wild. He did not consider that his sister was still young at this time, that life in the wild was extremely risky, and that he could not understand the consequences of war. Setsuko was sick, but he was still stubborn, and the aunt didn't want to drive them out at all, although she was a little mean. Kiyota thinks that her sister can also follow him to bear all this, concealing her mother's death, and playing various actions to make her sister laugh. But he did not know that his sister was facing death under his stubbornness.
Like what the Japanese government did back then? To wage war in the name of the nation and deceive the ignorant people is actually to ignore the lives of the people!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > innocent. </h1>
Setsuko would carefully ask her brother: Can the frog be eaten? The brother replied to him: It was delicious. And she only had her candy in her eyes, and she couldn't bear to swallow it in her mouth.
It wasn't until she went to see her mother with her heart and mind that her aunt told her that her mother was dead. She asked her brother: Why do people die when they are sick? She buried her favorite fireflies in the grave with her own hands, and she understood what death was. She named the firefly's tomb "The Tomb of the Bars", which I think was probably the first time she knew that the good would be shattered.
Jiezi slowly carried a pile of fireflies' corpses into the mud pit.
Setsuko is only one part of the many Japanese people. Japan's wartime frenzy made many ignorant children like Jiezi drag them into the quagmire of war. Some people, in the name of their own, let them bear the bitter consequences of waging war.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the maggot is still hanging? </h1>
The title of the film does not use fire maggots, but fire hanging, the meaning of fireflies. Setsuko loves fireflies, and she sees incendiary bombs falling from the sky and shouts fireflies, which are beautiful and beautiful things in her eyes; but the fire hanging is not necessarily a firefly, it may also be an incendiary bomb, a metaphor for war; war is "beautiful" in the eyes of militarism, and the tomb of the fire hangs a metaphor for burying militarism, burying war. Because of the anti-war ideology, a certain cool can also play this movie online.
Kiyota began to care about her father's life and death.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > still carries Japanese self-lamentation. </h1>
This Studio Ghibli animated film was not written by Hayao Miyazaki himself, but was directed by Takahata, a newcomer to the studio at the time.
Compared to other studio Ghibli anti-war ideas, this one is actually very shallow. Excessive misery will actually make people feel a little sad! Japan is the one who started the war, and if it sells too much, it is inevitable that Japan will be made a victim.
We also see now that militarist ideas have not been eliminated in Japan at all, because of insufficient liquidation and because Japan has fallen into the embrace of the West. The West can sit idly by, and we cannot afford to guard against it.
Taking this movie as an example, it is not to say how good this movie is, but I just want you to have another layer of thinking when you see this movie. Knowing oneself and knowing the other can win every battle, we also need to study how the Japanese think!
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Postscript: Before and after Japan's surrender, the food supply decreased by more than 1/3. This is still superficial, in fact, rice was already a staple food in Japan in the Edo period, and it was difficult to swallow coarse grains, which is why Setsuko was obsessed with rice. There are also merchants who hoard grain for sale on the black market, occupying a limited distribution of grain and exacerbating the food shortage. This is also the reason why the Kobe railway station was starving at the beginning. </h1>