City of Life and Death was by far the most unpleasant movie we watched in class. Rape is a subject that gets to me the most. So, considering the movie was based around a mass raping and systematic murder, it defiantly takes the cake of most horrifying. I feel in rape is worst then death. It is the ultimate violation of the human body. It takes something that makes the human experience amazing and turns it into something about control and dominance. This absolutely sickens me. I cannot begin to describe how my guts got twisted up when the Japanese soldiers rushed all of the women in the safety zone and just did what they wanted to them and the scene where Tang witnesses the gang-rape what just as intense.
To imagine that an entire people can be organized and
conditioned to exterminate another group is insane to me. I mean, to be
okay with placing people in fenced up areas and then just gunning them down
like animals is just crazy. To see that in real life must be
so emotionally scaring that when it first happens you are
just numb. Similar to how it seemed to affect Kadokawa, who took his own life at the end of the
movie because he felt so guilty over what he had done.
This is the kind of movie that needs to be shown in theaters in the US. Yet again, mainstream movies glorify war in some way, shape, or form. They make them out to be stories of heroes, and forget to show you most the atrocities that happen. We tend to forget that war does not just affect soldiers, it affects all of us. It creates hate and pain for people who are not even directly involved. This is something we must become more aware of if we are ever to put an end to it.
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