After the premiere of "Angel of Justice", many media and film critics wrote film reviews as soon as possible. On the morning of the next day, MTC lifted the ban on the ratings of 12 authoritative media outlets.

There are more than 50 authoritative media on MTC, and on the second day of the premiere of the film festival, MTC was able to lift the ban on 12 authoritative media, which is still relatively rare, and it is obvious that these authoritative media critics can't wait to express their opinions on this movie after watching the movie, which also proves the attention of critics to this movie.

Of the 12 media outlets that lifted the ban, seven gave positive reviews, two gave moderate reviews, and three gave negative reviews, and two of the seven media outlets that gave positive reviews gave a perfect score of 100 points. However, because the three media that gave bad reviews had very low ratings, the average score of the movie was only 69.5.

The Los Angeles Times gave "Angel of Justice" a perfect score, calling the film "a true classic"; a critic of the New York Times said that ""Angel of Justice can be the best movie of all time, full of human warmth", and "Variety" gave it a super high rating of "more humane than saving Private Wren and more desperate than "Schindler's List".

The Hollywood Reporter's film critic Mike Hale gave "Angel of Justice" only 20 points, saying: "Mr. Chang's one-dimensional, patriotic approach to exposing the Japanese invasion and occupation of Nanjing was not unjustified and untimely." Recently, some Chinese films have shown more sensual nationalism, chauvinism, and demonization of the invading Japanese army. "Angel of Justice" is very extreme compared to several similar classic films. In terms of the portrayal of human nature, it is even far inferior to Lu Chuan's "Nanjing Nanjing", which is undoubtedly a very failed film for an excellent director like Zhang Ran. ”

Tim Gleeson, the film critic of "Village Voice", also gave "Angel of Justice" only 20 points: "There is no doubt that "Angel of Justice" directed by Zhang Ran is a film with propaganda intentions, and the Chinese and missionaries in the film are all heroic and great, and the Dongying invaders are all despicable and despicable. We've seen these kinds of war movies before, but haven't audiences moved beyond the black-and-white morality?"

"Empire" magazine even gave it an ultra-low score of 10: "If Warner Bros. Entertainment had directed such a film as Angel of Justice in 1942, it might have been an effective anti-Japanese propaganda film and it would have been profitable." But today, "Angel of Justice" is just a low-level gimmick. ”

Zhang Jingchu was very angry after seeing a few bad reviews, because these few bad reviews were not criticized from the movie itself, but labeled "Angel of Justice" as a political propaganda film. However, Zhang Jingchu didn't have much time to get angry, because there was a press conference for "Angel of Justice" in the morning.

Attending this press conference were still Zhang Ran and the three leading actors of the film, Zhang Jingchu, Amy Adams, and Türk; nearly 400 media outlets crowded into the press conference, and the hall was crowded, and everyone wanted to talk to Zhang Ran about the movie.

When talking about the filming process of the movie, the three leading actors said in unison: "We all said in private that Zhang Ran was the messenger of hell, taking us into the history of hell, and in the end we all metamorphosed in purgatory." ”

During the free question time, the reporter threw most of the questions to Zhang Ran, then Amy Adams and Zhang Jingchu, and finally Türk. However, the three actors did not feel that they were left out, and they all answered reporters' questions with great interest.

A reporter asked: "I am a reporter from Reuters, I want to ask Director Zhang, a plot in "Angel of Justice" has appeared in "Nanjing Nanjing" and "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", that is, Dongying people choose prostitutes, but the descriptions of the three movies are different, "Nanjing Nanjing" took the initiative to stand up, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is for female students, and "Angel of Justice" was forcibly arrested, so which one is real?"

Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, and then spoke: "This incident happened on December 24, and it is recorded in "Wei Tling's Diary", "Cheng Ruifang's Diary" and "Rabe's Diary". The description of "Weitling's Diary" and "Cheng Ruifang's Diary" is that they agreed with the Dongying soldiers to pick people, but they did not say in detail how the Dongying soldiers were selected. According to the record in "Rabe's Diary", the female refugee took the initiative to come forward. However, Rabe was not at the scene when the incident happened, he was told by others, and he recorded the time on December 26. In the 26th volume of the Nanjing Massacre Historical Collection, Professor Zhang Lianhong also talked about this incident in an interview with a survivor named Qu Shenxing. Qu Shenxing, who was 13 years old at the time, was at the gate of Jinnu at the time of the incident, and her description was that most of the women who were taken away resisted and refused to go, shouting for help, but someone pulled them on the truck, someone pushed them up below, and finally the women were forcibly taken away. I think the situation described by the old man Qu Shenxing is the closest to the truth, there may be a small number of people who agree to go, but most of them were forcibly captured by the Dongying soldiers!"

Another reporter stood up: "Director Zhang Ran, I'm your fan." After watching "Angel of Justice", I feel that this movie is a continuation of the theme of "Future Apocalypse", "Future Apocalypse" is about the reincarnation of history, but about the distortion and maintenance of historical truth. I understand that, right?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "That's true, that's what I want to say." What this film really wants to talk about is the distortion and maintenance of the truth, about the struggle between the two. In fact, this problem has existed from ancient times to the present, and the history we see today is distorted, and some is true. Even today, this problem persists. In fact, there is a particularly wonderful thing about this movie, the Nanjing Massacre took place in 1937, and Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" was officially published in 1997, exactly 60 years after the Nanjing Massacre. According to us Chinese, sixty years is a cycle. ”

None of the reporters present paid attention to this issue, and now when they hear Zhang Ran say this, they only feel that their eyes are bright. From the beginning of the Nanjing Massacre, Dongying has been trying to cover up and distort history, and they are almost on the verge of success, and the Nanjing Massacre is almost forgotten in the West. What changed this pattern was Zhang Chunru's book "The Nanjing Massacre", but the book was published exactly 60 years after the Nanjing Massacre. Sixty years of reincarnation, which gives the whole story a sense of reincarnation and fate.

A reporter asked: "I am a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, and first of all, I would like to thank Director Zhang for sending us such a moving video." I would like to ask, do you have a sense of mission when you make this movie?"

Zhang Ran replied in the affirmative: "Of course, Zhang Chunru said when he wrote the book "Nanjing Massacre" that I don't care if this book can make money, for me, I just want all the people in the world to know what happened in Nanjing in 1937. I made this film with the same idea, which was to let more people know what happened in Nanjing in 1937.

When Zhang Chunru wrote "The Nanjing Massacre", the right-wing of Dongying was denying the Nanjing Massacre, and now the right-wing of Dongying is still denying the Nanjing Massacre. What's even more terrifying is that there are such voices on the Internet in China, and some people even make up all kinds of rumors to excuse the Japanese army. For example, there is a rumor widely circulated on the Chinese Internet that when the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, 40% of the Japanese troops were Koreans, and many of the atrocities were committed by North Korean soldiers. In fact, the Koreans entered the Japanese reserve in 1938, and officially entered the war in 1941 after the Pacific War, and it was impossible to appear in the city of Nanjing in 1937. In the end, even Zhu Chengshan, the director of the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre, personally wrote an article to refute the rumor, and this rumor is still circulating. There are still attempts to change or distort the truth about the Nanjing Massacre, so I felt the need to make such a film. ”

At this moment, a man with a big face who looked like a South Korean stood up and said loudly: "The rumor that the North Koreans were the main force in the Nanjing Massacre must have been spread by the Dongying people, who wanted to wash the ground of the atrocities of the Dongying people, and at the same time put the black cauldron of the Nanjing Massacre on our Koreans' backs, so as to sow discord between China and South Korea." ”

The reporters at the scene immediately whispered, most of the rumors of North Korean soldiers participating in the Nanjing Massacre were the first time they had heard of it, but judging from the information revealed by "Angel of Justice", the Dongying right wing has always wanted to cover up or distort the truth of the Nanjing Massacre, if so, then the rumors of North Korean soldiers' participation in the Nanjing Massacre may really be secretly spread by Dongying people.

Zhang Ran did not make any comments on the South Korean reporter's words, and he did not investigate how the rumors came about. However, he thinks that it is entirely possible for South Korean journalists to express their views, after all, the annual funds of the Dongying Foreign Ministry are not spent in vain.

At this time, a reporter from Dongying stood up: "Hello, Director Zhang! I am a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. This morning, I took a look at what the North American media had to say about Angel of Justice. Many critics have mentioned the problem that the Chinese and missionaries are good people, and the Dongying soldiers are all despicable. How do you think about the positioning of the image of the Dongying soldier in the movie?"

Zhang Ran said directly: "My point of view is very clear, none of the Dongying soldiers in Nanjing City in 1937 were innocent, either murderers or accomplices. Perhaps there were soldiers in the city of Nanjing in 1937 who had good thoughts in their hearts, but at least there is no record of it in the "Weitling Diary" and "Rabe's Diary". Part of my film about the Nanjing Massacre is narrated from the perspective of Weitling and Rabe, and since neither Weitling nor Rabe has recorded it, I definitely can't make up a kind soldier. ”

The Dongying reporter continued: "I once interviewed director Lu Chuan, and when he talked about the character of Kadokawa, he said that the prototype of the character came from "Weitling's Diary", which recorded that Ms. Weitling once met a Japanese soldier who went to a church school, he hated war and wanted to help the Chinese, and you said that there are no kind Dongying soldiers in "Weitling's Diary", so which of you two is telling the truth?"

Zhang Ran looked at the Dongying reporter and smiled sarcastically: "I'm sure you haven't read "Weitling's Diary", and Lu Chuan hasn't read it carefully. A soldier from the East came to visit the Golden Girl University, who was a student at the church school. When talking to Weitling, he said that the war happened because the two countries did not understand each other and thought that the war was a mistake. This did not happen during the Nanjing Massacre, but a few months after the Nanjing Massacre, and more importantly, does this have anything to do with kindness? Just because he said that war was a mistake, he was kind? If Hitler said before his death that war was a mistake and that he had known that there would be no war, would we be able to think that he was kind?"

The whole press conference lasted for almost an hour, and most of the media questions were friendly, but some of the media questions were prickly. However, Zhang Ran has been in the entertainment industry for more than ten years, and it is not difficult to deal with these problems. In short, the press conference ended in a relatively harmonious atmosphere.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu did not stay in New York for long, and flew directly to Los Angeles in the afternoon to make final preparations for the Olympic Games.