Review of The Eight Hundred (2020) by Wesseldj — 23 Nov 2021

This movie is about the first major battle from imperial japanese against China in 1937, when the war didn't even started yet in Europe (world war 2 started in europe in 1939, almost 2 years later).

First of all in a cinematographic standpoint, this was a masterpiece. Second of all, how can people dare to say this is propaganda, when there are actual historic footages from that time still in historic archives depicting that event, recorded by journalists. And the movie didn't even portrayed the chinese soldiers having a victory, but it was a bloody retreat, as was described in history that is even recorded and known in western history books. And the soldiers weren't even communists, they were from NRA from Chiang Kaisheks army.

Also the West, as in The League of Nations didn't lay a finger to help the chinese to fight fascism.

It's a shame and disgrace of western cinemas not putting this movie in mainstream theaters and telling the story about the brave sacrifice these chinese soldiers have made in trying to defend their dignity and country.