Monday, July 27, 2009

Letters from Iwo Jima

After watching Narnia, I hopped onto 2 other movies - Ratatouille and Letters from Iwo Jima. Yeps. 3 movies in a day and I plan to watch more. XD

Ratatouille as most of you may have seen, is a very interesting movie. The graphic is very clear and the idea itself is creative. A rat to be a cook?! This movie is trying to say that everything is possible and you all can be whatever you want, as long as you never give up. :)

The next movie I watch is Letters from Iwo Jima, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya.


It always pains my heart each time I watch Letters From Iwo Jima. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint. Watching a war-genre movie always touches my heart. The loyalty of soldiers of both sides, the courage to risk oneself in order to help companions really touch my heart. I am scared to watch such a movie, to mind you for the violence it has in it. But watching movies like this one teaches me that war brings nothing but scars and sufferings, and some of the scars it left, never disappears.

"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

Above is one of the famous quote of General Douglas MacArthur who also participated in the battle and I couldn't be agree more with him. I humbly hope that there would be no more wars happening - so much I hope that the Second Korean War would never happen. There is no excuse to start a war, no reason could justify it, either, 'cause how can one country be proud of its winning with most of his population annihilated?

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