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In Reply to: RE: Is it my imagination, or is the entire Chinese film industry just one big exercise in reminding the Japanese posted by Doug Flynn on April 10, 2011 at 12:37:29

...Which is is a click or two under 500,000. Then rape and murder 300,000 of its men, woman and children. How about that for a lottery win? It was 4 years before the attack at Pearl Harbor (Most Americans will never let that go, rightfully I'll posit). The world powers did nothing. The Japanese have never really stood up and accepted the colossal guilt for the crimes. Maybe these film makers made this film just to remind people with selective memories, that genocide is unacceptable, and that justice for those crimes have no expiration date. Then again, maybe this is like the torture porn films that the US industry cranks out like sausage for its dull witted masses, ie...Nanking equals big box office, who knows? Your lottery comment sound disingenuous, speaking more of an animus towards the Chinese economic dominance, than a criticism about the legitimacy of the film's theme. In a world where these crimes still occur with frequency, a film like this has important value. That's a Ferrari they earned the pink slip for. That being said, I couldn't bear to sit through a film like this. Too upsetting.

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I understand....many Americans have almost forgotten 9-11. - mr grits 18:07:49 04/10/11 (3)
They probably think Pearl Harbor was a greater humanitarian disaster when it actually wasn't.
- Nine what what now? - Enophile 12:29:51 04/12/11 (0)
  Pearl who?
  
  How many people died as a result of 9/11 vs. as a result of Pearl Harbor?
- "Almost forgotten?" Just what do you think fuels the fanatical hatred of so many - tinear 21:16:55 04/11/11 (1)
  Americans such as you against Muslims, in general? I see NO evidence of any forgetfulness, sorry. I doubt among your righty radical friends you see any of it, either.
  - Not to mention, that the thing was not accomplished by Arabs. NT - Poles Apart 21:56:15 04/14/11 (0)
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C'mon, every second movie coming out of China is a bitch-slap - Doug Flynn 16:54:22 04/10/11 (2)
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- Your knowledge of Chinese film is extremely biased, wrong, and narrow. None of the major directors whose - tinear 21:14:33 04/11/11 (0)
  many works I've seen have made such films.
  But even if they had, is it that unusual? How many Vietnam films has the US produced? Hell, Iraq is still going on and we've had more than a few, as well. And.... Clint Eastwood not long ago directed two war films about our dust-up with the Japanese. Our losses in the Pacific were miniscule compared to those of China.
  It must be something else that's bothering you about the Chinese. Loss of an outsourced job, perhaps?
- Japan has kicked a lot of booty in Asia over its lifetime.... - mr grits 18:09:55 04/10/11 (0)
  just more than China could make movies of their incursions and barbarism.

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