Wanted to post the trailer to THE FLOWERS OF WAR. Watched it last night and it's been sticking with me all day so far. Guess it really had an impact om me. The trailer only covers a fraction of what really goes on in this movie.
Two scenes will haunt me forever from this movie, not because they are "cool" but because they are brutally realistic ....the scene where the school girls prepare to jump off the steeple of the church (to avoid sex labor camps)....and the scene where the last few remaining Chinese soldiers line up one by one to protect the last soldier carrying a bomb, being picked off one at a time in order by a tank, all in one camera take as they run towards the screen....chilling, haunting stuff. Of course all the rape scenes are haunting, but they made me angry more than anything else....this is just a movie that will stick with the viewer for a long time. And NO this is NOT Chinese Communist Propaganda......it's a sad sad sad part of human history and a story about the human condition / spirit. And not all Japanese are portrayed badly in this movie....several are sympathetic to the the girls / women and do not want to follow their orders, but they must since they would face death....it's an interesting paradox the film explores with some of the main Japanese characters......
Interesting trivia....Steven Spielberg personally recommended Christian Bale to director Zhang Yimou....both Zhang Yimou and Spielberg are close friends. Yes. They are. And remember Bale was in Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN back in '87.
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