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Nanking (2007): The Movie Review
By Paul Midler | December 19, 2007
Just received glowing recommendation for a movie that recently earlier this year. Nanking is the title, and a friend is allowing me to reprint his comments on the title. I’ve placed a link to Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com), which is my #1 source for info on the movies. If you happen to be in Manhattan, it’s playing at the Film Forum on Houston Street.
“In the unlikely event you have a chance, I’d recommend seeing Nanking, about how a group of Westerners (mostly American missionaries and German (Nazi!) businessmen) saved thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of Chinese from the Rape of Nanking. It’s a moving and informative film where survivors try to grapple with the fact that a bunch of strangers, and wai guo ren at that, actually went to such lengths, and took such risks, to save them. Even 70 years later, the idea that some people are altruistic or may seek to do good when it would be easier not to does not seem to dawn on these senior citizens, whose life encompassed WWII, the Communist Revolution, the Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Revolution.”
Topics: China |
December 19th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
On this 70th anniversary of the massacre and having the CCP ram all its propaganda down our throats here in China, I think I’ll hold out for a yet to be made docudrama called “How the Great Helmsman Screwed Us in the Butt During the Great Leap Forward”.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Unfortunate comment from Hunxuer.
The movie is an incredible account, extremely moving. There’s one continuous sequence of about 15 minutes where a man recounts the experience of his famly. It is the most horrible, moving, riveting piece I’ve seen for a very long time.
Required viewing for anyone with a modicum of humanity and others who still might be saved. [No names mentioned]
December 20th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Your heart bleeds for me T.