In the movie "Holy War", Wang Zijun did not deliberately use black and white pictures to increase the heaviness of the film like Spielberg's "Schindler's List".

In the first ten minutes of play, not only is the plot not heavy, but its colors, music, and shots are unusually fresh and bright, and it is also about the study, love and life of the male protagonist Hidekazu Uno.

Seeing this, many viewers have doubts in their hearts: Isn't this an anti-war film to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the world's anti-fascist victory? How does it look like a literary romance movie.

It wasn't until the militarists' speeches began to appear in schools, on the streets, and on every radio that moviegoers began to feel that something was wrong.

Before you know it, the content of Hidekazu Uno's conversation with his friends has changed from his previous professional knowledge to an oracle from His Majesty's Imperial Majesty, and the students are keen to discuss which castle the Imperial Army has captured.

It's like a beast in my heart is also released, and the boys next door have turned into fanatical militarists, and under the inspiration of the emperor, they have gone into the military camp for training.

When the war broke out, the army that had been tightened before the war suddenly swelled up like a water-absorbing sponge, and instantly turned into a war monster, and Uno Hidekazu became one of the cells of this monster.

"Boom!" The sudden sound of the cannon made the cinema, which was becoming more and more dull, startled, and many viewers were startled by the sudden sound of cannons.

"Ah, God!"

", the lower half of that person's body is gone."

"Vomit ......"

As soon as the camera turns, there is a rain of bullets, and in the whistling of bullets, mixed with violent explosions from time to time, all the audience will return to the battlefield immersively.

What's even more terrifying is that on the position of the Chinese soldiers, a soldier was directly knocked over his skull by shrapnel, and his face was red and white, and the situation was extremely terrifying.

One of the heralds was running when he was blown in two by a sudden flying cannonball, and he was all gone down the waist, and he continued to crawl forward without knowing it. After crawling about half a meter with his hands, his intestines dragged to the ground, he realized that something was wrong, turned his head to look, and then screamed in fright.

Two machine gunners were killed, and a third man went up to top it, but a piece of the machine gun's bunker was blown off. Just then something flew in, and the Heavy grabbed it and put it under the machine gun without thinking. After a few shuttles, the machine gunner found that the object used to frame the machine gun was a thigh of a comrade.

Before that, no director would put these things so bloody in front of the audience's eyes. First, for the sake of the box office, it was too bloody to play, in case the review ruled that a person under the age of 18 was banned from watching, wouldn't it be a loss of a large part of the audience? There is also the problem of special effects technology, if Wang Zijun did not use a lot of computer technology this time, he would not be able to present these shots so realistically.

The footage of about a minute has already made some viewers want to vomit, and this is just the beginning.

The movie goes from light to heavy little by little, and Hidewa Uno writes a letter to inform his fiancée of the confusion in his heart. The camera turned, but it was his fiancée who was inspired by the emperor to voluntarily sign up as a woman who served as a comfort soldier in the army to do her part in the holy war of the empire.

In the beginning, when Megumi Takahara met with the soldiers who patronized her, she would bow and salute and say, "Please take care of me." ”

A few days later, Megumi Takahara had lost all enthusiasm, and when he saw a soldier coming in, he would only numbly spread his legs and let the soldier vent.

When she received a letter from Hidekazu Uno from her family again, Megumi Takahara had already contracted her surname and replied with tears on her face. As she wrote, there was also a soldier behind her to vent.

Gao Yuan met two friends in the military camp, one is a North Korean and the other is a Chinese (played by Gong Li), both comfort women forcibly captured by the Yue army.

Finally one day, Megumi Takahara met her fiancé Hidekazu Uno when picking up customers, and the two were relatively speechless, hugging and crying together.

After her fiancé left, Megumi Takahara, who suddenly woke up, was finally unwilling to be a tool for these soldiers to vent, and contacted other comfort women, preparing to take the opportunity to kill the guards of the Junji camp and escape.

The comfort women played by Gong Li are from a record girl, and they use their abilities to successfully hook up with an officer, and then use this officer to take seven or eight comfort women out of the military camp. On the way, several women teamed up to kill the soldiers and officers who were driving, and the women who couldn't drive scattered in the wilderness.

Unexpectedly, a soldier was not completely dead, and suddenly fired a shot before he breathed, attracting the pursuit of the squad of soldiers. Seven or eight comfort women died most of them, and in the end, the girl played by Gong Li sacrificed herself for others, pulled a grenade from the soldiers, and died with several soldiers.

Gao Yuan Hui did not escape in the end, this woman who was full of longing and yearning for holy war before coming to China, and volunteered to serve as a military memorial to comfort the soldiers, was tortured and killed by her fellow soldiers.

Seeing this, many viewers couldn't stand it anymore and got up and left the cinema one after another, or covered their eyes and didn't dare to watch it anymore.

The Nanjing Massacre came, and these war machines turned into beasts and ghosts from hell. Chinese were raped and tortured, thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners were machine-gunned, piles of Chinese were buried alive, and even soldiers were competing with each other to cut off Chinese heads.

The army filled the Chinese with sacks, poured gasoline on them and lit them, and the people inside rolled all over the ground in pain, and a group of soldiers kicked around the sacks; Or a woman who raped a pregnant woman, who, after venting her surname, broke the belly of the pregnant woman with a bayonet and hung the baby inside on a stake.

The cursing and vomiting in the movie theater were endless, and Cotillard couldn't hold it anymore, and he couldn't hold it anymore, and he couldn't bear the nausea: "I didn't expect your father's film to be X-rated (French film classification), I regret going to the theater a little." ”

Lin Yi explained: "There is a three-hour purified version, and we are watching the full version. Didn't you see that I was using a special pass when you came in, otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to come in. You look miserable, so can you imagine how hard it is for my dad to be immersed in these images for more than a year? ”

After the atrocities, the picture has returned to the 80s, with old men sitting by the canal at sunset, and there are no small sampans on the river, but all kinds of sightseeing boats.

"Boom!"

The picture was pulled back again, bombers flew over the sky, and countless people on the ground fled in panic. But the feng shui took turns, and the bombing of Tokyo began, and the capital of Sakaben was bombed into ruins, and the civilians lost everything they had.

On the edge of the canal, the old man suddenly stood up and decided to spend the last part of his life atoning for his sins.

The old man flew to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and was surprised to find that the old man who guarded the memorial hall was actually the Chinese soldier who was born from his butcher's knife (Jiang ornament).

All grievances and hatred faded away, and the two old men recounted their post-war experiences together. Suddenly, it was a little noisy outside, but it was a local official who accompanied a veteran from Taiwan to come in, and the veteran was the [***] officer (Zun Long) who was stationed in Nanjing and threw away his subordinates to blend in with the civilians.

The three old men who have a grudge against each other finally get together, and the camera gets farther and farther away, falling into the distant sky and gradually losing focus.

After the movie ended, the theater was depressed, and it took a long time for loud applause to erupt, followed by louder and louder discussions, and even scolding.

There are those who scold the fascists, and there are those who scold the director, anyway, the scene is chaotic.

The next day, the French "Cinema Handbook" commented: "...... It was the toughest movie I've ever seen, and I made four trips to the bathroom over the course of nearly five hours. It's not that my kidneys are bad, it's that my stomach is so upset that I can't help but want to vomit...... Without a doubt, it was a shocking movie, and I went home and lay down with nightmares all night full of those shattering, anti-human gore...... The film is based on the veteran Uno Hidekazu as the main perspective, and relies on his memories to link the entire plot. However, there are also a lot of detailed portrayals of comfort women, journalists, Chinese [***] people and ordinary people in the play, and the social landscape and war scenes at that time have been perfectly restored. The biggest difference from Zachley's previous works is that there is nothing sensational about this film, he is telling a history with a blank face, and the blood, brutality and darkness in it are untouched in front of the audience...... Although on the surface Zachary sets up the plot to be simple and crude, a closer look reveals many intriguing points. From the title "Holy War" to connect the whole movie, you can see the director's irony of war...... The Nazi massacre of Jews is well known, but most Westerners are unaware of the massacres during the Sino-Chinese War. Yesterday, Zachary? In an interview, Wang said that it was a depressing fact that the war criminals were still enshrined in the shrine and enjoyed heroic worship, and that the worshippers even included the current prime minister. Especially on the first day of the film, the entire crew was attacked by right-wingers......"

The discussion caused by the release of "Holy War" is explosive, and countless people criticize Wang Zijun's movie for being too bloody and real, and there are also countless people who praise this movie. And as the 45th anniversary of the anti-fascist victory is getting closer and closer, there are more and more discussions about that war, and "Holy War" is also known as a classic of anti-war movies.

In the festival catalogue, the judges gave "Jihad" an unprecedented high score——。

The award ceremony is about to take place, but it seems that there is no suspense about the Palme d'Or. Maybe the film will fail at the box office because of its content, but as we all know, the judges of the Cannes Film Festival use the depth of the film as the voting criterion, and "Holy War" deserves to win the award.

(To be continued)