Because I want to be full, ready and exact.
南京! 南京! City of Life and Death (Chinese)
July 12, 2009
I didn’t like it. Though it may be accurate, and it portrays both the human brutality and humanity in war, just like the gloomy media it is presented on, the film is so depressing. I felt frustrated in that those I considered lead characters never fulfilled their lives. It’s so sad that you can’t even get yourself to hate.
I’m dousing my sadness with happier films. What you watch gets into what feel, think and do.
The movie’s good, but it’s terrible.
On my rating system, it gets three stars of five.
By the way, just as I expected it, the film got a rocky start in the People’s Republic. Many Chinese hate WWII films that sympathize with the Japanese.
