Review of City of Life and Death (2009) by Bill C — 25 Nov 2011
A very gut wrenching movie. Somewhere between Schindler's list-1993 and group of puppies run over by a rotating lawnmower in slow motion. A movie once seen will never be forgotten.
This movie does an excellent job of capturing the huge scale of war/the massacre while focusing on the emotions/pathos of several characters.
For example, The women of Nanking are graphically raped by wandering platoons of Japanese soldiers. To resist this the women cut their hair and give up any guise of femininity. The Japanese demand 100 the same women serve as prostitutes for 3 week otherwise their children will starve and go without heat. We get to see thousands of Japanese soldiers are given 15 minutes a piece to use the Chinese women. The dead nude Chinese women are stacked in wheel barrels to be dumped.
Its really hard for me to recommend this movie. If you really don't understand the horrors of war and think its a 1950's WWII movie you should see it.
This review of City of Life and Death (2009) was written by Bill C on 25 Nov 2011.
City of Life and Death has generally received very positive reviews.
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