The Flowers of War (film) - Nanking Massacre

[Neil]

It was other posts on this forum that taught me about the Nanking Massacre. It was a truly horrific act which shows what levels humanity can sink to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

I'm not sure how much historical fact will be in this film though.

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[Purge]

Saw the similarly-themed Men Behind The Sun years ago. Most disturbing film I've seen yet.

[EvilNed]

It looks like Christian Bale is portraying the german businessman John Rabe, who sheltered hundreds of chinese from the japanese soldiers. What the film probably won't mention is that John Rabe was a card carrying member of the Nazi Party. However he later wrote to Hitler and tried to get him to get the Japanese to stop being so violent and rapey, something for which Gestapo detained him. He also wrote in his letters that he hoped that Germany and the Nazi party would take steps to ensure that something like this never happened in Europe. Oh the irony.

Otherwise, while I will watch this film, I'm pretty sure it will hold back on the brutalities. Something tells me we won't get to see pregnant women getting raped in the streets and then bayonetted in their bellys afterwards. Or kids being stabbed in their genitals. Generally, the atrocities were of the most extreme order and how anyone could do some of the things the Japanese did is beyond me.

[bassman]

Looks like a definite tear jerker....