This is my favourite film by Spielberg because there are ambiguities, it isn't black and white, good vs evil. He respects the Japanese pilots, yet they are responsible for his captivity and losing touch with his parents. The Americans are his allies but the people he meets after the collapse of the city don't have good morals. The film also has less sentimentality than some Spielberg films which I feel try to force emotion out of you. This one makes you feel as bewildered, numb and unsure of how to feel as the characters caught in these extreme events.
JG Ballard, the autobiographical writer of the book on which this movie was produced, worked closely with both Spielberg and Christian Bale in helping to get his childhood experiences correct. The author spoke at my school, two decades before Spielberg had even read the eponymous book. The man impressed each of us boys with his memory of what he told us were the seminal years in his growing up; a privileged child one day, and a starving teenager facing the horrors of death, destruction, and loneliness the next.
This film was more morally grey, darker, and more depressing than Schindler's List. Schindler's List had a "happy ending" compared to Empire of the Sun. This is easily Spielberg's most underrated film. One of the greatest World War 2 films of all time.
Oh my god. I saw this movie as a kid and for almost 30 years I never knew its name (or Christian Bale as a kid) until today. I think this is where my obsession with Japanese culture in general started. It was pretty impactful. Damn, I wasn't expecting to cry while writing this.
I think this is the most subjective and autobiographical film of mr. Spielberg's, exhibiting his true emotional devastation that resulted from his parents' divorce and the chaos that followed when he was a child himself. A true masterpiece in every sense of the word, and one of the most important films ever made, as it confronts unspeakable trauma with genuine optimism and nobility, and through catharsis displays true healing power of art.
What I love about this film is those moments of childhood fantasy and abandon that sweeps Jamie up at offbeat moments. Whether it's him cycling carefree around his empty home or jumping around in celebration at the US air attack on the Japanese airfield whilst everyone flees in terror. Or the idea that the atom bomb he witnesses is someone's spirit. It seems that the horrors of war cannot penetrate his childlike innocence but come the final scene you know it has. When he is reunited with his parents in that final scene, he looks totally emotionless and exhausted (note that it is only his mum that recognises him at first as his dad walks straight past him). And then there's that final shot of Jamie's suitcase of belongings floating down the river and with it his childhood. That's the heart breaker for me.
I didn't find the ending to be anticlimactic at all. When he finally sees his parents, it takes him some time to realise who they are....then when he leans into his mother's arms his eyes slowly shut. At last he is home and he can rest. The Welsh lullaby which is being sung , emphasises this moment - he is home at last, in her arms.
Absolutely not at all. There's that conversation he has with the doctor about not being able to remember what his mother looks like (a classic stage of grief, indeed, what my father said to me the night after my mother died ;(_ _ ) and then comes the reunion - which is after a traumatic hiatus of four years, let us not forget - when he dimly recognises her but like a blind child he has to feel the contours of her face and touch her hair to confirm it is really his mother before he can surrender to her embrace.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
I’ve never been the kind of person who easily feels things in a movie. I always associate films with being entertainment. But this movie is one of the few that actually made me cry, because I felt so much that every character feels in this film. Honestly an absolute classic.
I was on a Spielberg binge for a class and out of all of his films, this one stuck out the most. I love Spielberg and all of his big ones - but you're so right, this one was underrated and not talked about enough!
Empire of the sun was one of my favorite movies. The entire P51 sequence is just amazing, the little boy in all of us can relate. Even now the sight of one in person gives me goose bumps.
Good, but it wasn't only about Jim's coming of age. The world was changing and Jim represented many of the Western citizens who clung to their processions and resorted to tribalism throughout the movie. During WWII, Britain changed from an arrogant colonial power to slowly realizing that compromises were necessary b/c the war would not be about loyalties and possessions but life and death. In this scene, after the Americans kill Jim's new Japanese friends, they offer their companionship but Jim rejects them. He knows they aren't his real friends and he no longer wishes to be a part of a hollow value system where life matters less than possessions and power. The old Jim who identified as a wealthy son of the British Empire is long dead and gone and his Japanese friend wanted to make friends with Jim more than he wanted to fight for the Japanese Empire.
They used to say that the sun never sets on the British Empire. And the Japanese empire was a symbol of the sun. The Americans created the power of the sun with the atom bomb that Jim witnessed. The old Jim would have been fascinated by these displays of power by these empires. But the new Jim forgot he was British, saw the Japanese boy as his friend and fascinated by the atom bomb, but not because it's power, but because he thought the bright light it created was a person's spirit going to heaven.
Beautifully said. I'm so afraid that we loose the sense of the past, that how horrible WWII was and that we'll repeat the same mistakes. The west NEEDS to recognize its arrogance and that we aren't these polished heroes that brought peace. And the east needs to understand that society, people and the world move on from old traditions and new ones will be made.
There are so many layers in this film, and it is my favorite film. It has the complexity of a book. There's a scene in the beginning of the movie, before the Japanese invade, where Jim is put to bed and his mother and father are standing over him. Later in the movie, when Jim moves into the American barracks, he hangs the cover of a magazie on the wall with what looks like a Norman Rockwell painting of a man and woman standing over their child's bed. Then, after the attack on the airfield by the Americans, Jim confesses he doesn't remember what his parents look like. The closest thing he has to them is the magazine cover. When they're at the costume party and discussing whether the Japanese will invade, there's one person standing in the background wearing a costume of Death watching Jamie's dad and the ambassador talk. In the end, when his young friend is shot, Jim has blood on his hands, but when he pulls the boy out of the water and looks at his hand, there is no blood. There is so much symbolism and depth in this movie that each time I watch it I see something new. It's why this movie feels like a book to me. This is Speilberg at the height of his power as a film maker and story teller.
Always loved this movie, I saw it as a 7 year old when it came out, and it affected me emotionally, especially the part where he tries to revive the Japanese boy. I love Jim as a character and still try to keep characters like him with me as a man as not to lose my own boyish wonder no matter what I've experienced. Thanks for posting
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
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That salute with the Japanese pilots always gets to me ..the camera angle..the pilots are larger than life...in that moment they were not enemies..they were heroes.
I loved that film when I first saw it. The music (choir) still gives me goosebumps today. I went to see it with my parents and my mother cried when, at the beginning Jim's mom got dragged by the crowd and loose him. I guess only a mum can really feel what would it mean to loose a child this way. Anyways, I kinda agree that there is no real story but only Jim's journey throughout the war. Beautiful movie!!
Guys,i watched this film when i was a lil kid and now that i am looking at it again.It made me thing "the world is a place with bad people but,there will always be good people in the world"
In "Empire of the Sun," I saw Spielberg all through it. He was fascinated with aircraft as a high school student in Phoenix, using them in his first 8mm films.
It's all real. It all happened to ballard, his book is wonderful and Spielberg did it real justice. The casting was great. A rare movie. I love it very much.
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst The teachings of the samurai's soul do not let others take control of life and death! It is the duty of the strongly born to help the bear. I was taught and fought for the descendants of my parents, sisters, younger brothers, and wives. 侍の魂の教えには、生殺与奪の権を他人に握らせるな！ 弱気人を助けることは、強く生まれた者の責務である、と。 教えられ、父母妹弟・妻の後世の産まれてくる子孫の為に戦った ! 日本は、アジア解放の為に血を流したのです。 欧米は、アジアの侵略者だ！ Japan shed blood for the liberation of Asia。 The West is an Asian invader!
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
@@frankcamera1234 Steven Spielberg Jewish, right? In 1938, while serving as the director of the special agency for Harbin in Manchuria, he worked on Manchukuo to rescue Jewish refugees who had fled Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The second is the Japanese garrison on Kiska Island, which was on the verge of breaking the jade under the overwhelming siege of the U.S. Army during his tenure as commander of the Northern Army (later the Fifth Area Army) in 1943. Successful "miracle operation" to secretly withdraw a little less than a thousand soldiers. Third, in 1945, he unilaterally abandoned the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty and entered the war, ordering the Soviet Union forces that continued to invade even after the end of the war, and crushed their ambitions. That is (Hokkaido was hard protected by the victory on the northernmost island of Kita-Kuril Islands, Shumshu Island, and the struggle on Sakhalin)
Suo Gan is played at different times in the movie. It is a lullaby. I believe that is significant. Jim sings the Welsh words but probably doesn’t know what they mean - but the audience does. It speaks of resting in mother’s arms where none shall harm you. Jim’s quest is to find his parents but most specifically his mother and it is in her arms that he finally closes his eyes in rest. He has been greatly harmed outside his mother’s embrace.
The scene where Jamie walks up to the Gone With the Wind advertisement is Spielberg admitting he is telling a similar tale. Jamie is Scarlett (spoiled and living an idyllic life)/ Basie is Rhett (a vehicle for survival)/ The Doctor is Melanie (unable to survive on his own but offers a reason to survive by giving meaning to life, so he should be protected). Not to belittle the film - it is a spectacular achievement. I just watched it again with my 14 year old daughter and she was mesmerized the whole film. She caught that the doctor had similar physical mannerisms to Jamie's father that I had never noticed in at least 10 viewings. The score is so beautiful.
I've always loved this movie...my favorite scene being when the P-51 (Cadillac of the sky) flies past and the pilot has an open canopy...on the side of the plane is the name Tugboat...after it flies past the canopy is closed and there is no name on the side of the plane....never noticed that fact until just now
I need to watch this movie again! I remember watching it so many years ago and the scene of the P-51 flying by and the pilot waving...and I went directly to tears. I hope a few other Av-nut/P-51-fans did the same when they saw it.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
EOTS was one of the movies that made me want to visit China. I had a few days in Shanghai and I walked the streets where the events in the film took place. The airfield that they built in the film is now the location of the the Shanghai international airport
I remember seeing this movie with my dad when I was younger. I didn't understand the plot and the main idea at the time, but this video really helped me understand it.
I watched this movie, together with my older sister, when I was twelve. The same age as Jim (Jamie). It made a big impression on me then. I now realize that it is the best movie I ever watched. Also due to the music which was great. Something we now take for normal but was superb for the time (1987). Actually it is timeless.
This film has been overlooked compared with his more popular movies like e.t. and needs a 4k release for its 35th anniversary. I never saw this in the Theater but saw it on vhs and loved the score which has been used in movie trailers specifically Cadillac of the skies .
I read the book first, but, unlike most other book to movies this one was was just how I read it ( or should I say, the way I saw it ). It's the only movie I've watched that brought tears to my eyes!
You did a good analysis, but you missed one point: exactly what did Jim learn about life and people? I think this is answered in the scene where the Japanese pilot is killed. Malkovich asks him, "Didn't you learn anything?" and Jim replied, "I learned that a person will do anything for a potato." In other words, a person will do anything to survive. Jim bowed to the enemy to survive. He tried to help others survive. And to him, "others" included the enemy. That's why he was ready to kill the men who killed his Japanese friend. He has gone from an idealistic child to a potentially dangerous adult who will do anything for a potato (life).
Yeah it works sometimes...but then spare a thought for the guys that the Japanese forced to dig their own graves, then decapitated them into it. Sometimes bowing is just dying, it depends on the situation.
Hi there, yes I agreed with the most part of your comments, but let me ask you this: What would you do in order to survive? Well, if the potato could be your salvation, you would pay that price. Since I have watched this movie it got me think what kind of person this turned out in his life? I have only one aswer: Nothing in this world would shake him!
Watched this movie for the first time last week and immediately it became my favourite spielberg film and probably one of my favourite films ever, great video really enjoyed the analysis, wish you went over his relationship with the doctor as that was my favourite aspect of the film! Defo subscribing!
Thank you, my friend! Yeah, there are so many great layers to explore in this film - especially his relationship with the doctor! Definitely missed out on that.
You must also add, the enormous amount of "extras/the crowd". Also, he loves picture-perfect scenes of a particular character and its shadow. And some things that I just can't describe. Thanks to you, now I can. In Super 8, It didn't give any hint that movie would be an Alien-invasion type of genre (didn't get to see the trailer first though before watching the whole film). I recall this particular scene @10:28, in the behind-the-scene DVD special features, Christian Bale kind of made a mistake (missed to show the correct reaction from the before and after that big explosion) and was kind of reprimanded by Spielberg.
I had never seen this movie and really am happy I watched it, it may be semi autobiographical but what a great story. Him not recognizing his parents really brought me to tears in a way only Spielberg can... very similar to the end of Schindler's list when he realizes he could have sold a ring or a car to save more lives.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
It seems like you forget this movie is based on a book of Jim, who went through the atrocities of WW 2, went through these things. Although when I read the book, it’s true that Spielberg didn’t totally follow all the details of the book, he absolutely followed the emotions of what Jim went through and that is what he brings out in the movie.
STILL one of the best films ever and overlooked cause it was realistic cinematic masterpiece , like the epic features from the 50'S 40'S very David Niven
Nice clip to help students recognise the way a director effectively communicates ideas about character to an audience. One small error is that Basie is not a spy (although Jamie might fantasise about him being that). Basie is a petty crook and a survivor, probably in Shanghai out of bad luck. This film does indeed have a strong theme.
He DISCOVERED his parents. And our lovely Welsh lullaby _Suo Gan_ he sang as a choirboy was in the background as a reminder of the beauty of celebrating birth and being reborn. He saluted and sang _Suo Gan_ again to the Japanese Kamikaze pilots. Spielberg was brilliant in choosing a non-English song to transcend an English and Japanese speakers audience narrative. If you read the translation of the lullaby in context of the Kamikaze it'll make your weep buckets.😭😭
Saying the movie has no meaning is very unfair. Maybe it's just because I look for meaning in everything, but I got some messages out of it personally. Shoot, you could interpret several different meanings from the final scene where he closes his eyes alone. And what about the picture of the Norman Rockwell painting of the parents putting their children to bed that Jim constantly hangs up in his spaces? Surely one could derive meaning from that. It may not be the most deep, thought-provoking film out there, but at the very least it does take a look at how the war affected the psychology of children who were more directly exposed to it. Much like the Soviet film, 'Come and See' did, only much less graphic and about a different theatre of the war. While it can be difficult to judge just how much it has affected Jim at times on account of him retaining a good chunk of his innocence until literally the last ten or so minutes of the film, one could also argue that his persistent innocence is a sort of coping or defense mechanism for him and the audience, even. But I'm biased I suppose, because I am going to step in to defend any WWII movie that I enjoyed because I love the topic so much. I do have questions about the historical accuracy of the film, such as the fact that they had what appeared to be American pilots in a civilian camp (maybe it happened late war, idk), but I did enjoy watching it!
I don't know if I meant that it had no meaning! It definitely has meaning. You're right. Someone could find a ton from it. That's the beauty of this medium!
You got some characters and scenes wrong. Baisey is not a spy, he was an opportunistic American guy living in Shanghai. And the after the Americans bombed the internment camp, the Japanese evacuated and forced the prisoners to march along with them. Jim and Mrs. Victor pretended to be dead when they reached that area full of furniture and chandeliers of the rich. That’s when he experiences the atomic bomb, thinking it was Mrs’ Victor’s spirit but learning later it was the atom bomb. He returned to the internment camp, living off of the war rations dropping from the sky (Americans dropping them) and was found by the Americans there. Even before Jim met Baisey, he already idolized a character like him - shown by the comic book he was reading in the beginning of the movie, with an image of a guy who Baisey personified with the sunglasses and cap. Very American hero. And he was so impressed with the Americans. This was a period in history when America was a rising power. Even my grandparents in the Philippines idolized Americans like MacArthur who helped liberate the country in WW2. MacArthur also had that look - macho, american hero, sunglasses, cap, military guy.
“Cadillac of the skies!”
Best movie scene ever!!!!
I can smell the oil and cordite I felt their heat.HORSEPOWER
@@ronalddaub9740 when it slows down and the pilot waves!!
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This is my favourite film by Spielberg because there are ambiguities, it isn't black and white, good vs evil. He respects the Japanese pilots, yet they are responsible for his captivity and losing touch with his parents. The Americans are his allies but the people he meets after the collapse of the city don't have good morals. The film also has less sentimentality than some Spielberg films which I feel try to force emotion out of you. This one makes you feel as bewildered, numb and unsure of how to feel as the characters caught in these extreme events.
I agree with you. Such a great movie in so many ways.
This is the one of the great movies made by Spielberg...truly a masterpiece...
JG Ballard, the autobiographical writer of the book on which this movie was produced, worked closely with both Spielberg and Christian Bale in helping to get his childhood experiences correct. The author spoke at my school, two decades before Spielberg had even read the eponymous book. The man impressed each of us boys with his memory of what he told us were the seminal years in his growing up; a privileged child one day, and a starving teenager facing the horrors of death, destruction, and loneliness the next.
This film was more morally grey, darker, and more depressing than Schindler's List. Schindler's List had a "happy ending" compared to Empire of the Sun. This is easily Spielberg's most underrated film. One of the greatest World War 2 films of all time.
Such a great point. I definitely left this one more bummed than Schindlers.
Oh my god. I saw this movie as a kid and for almost 30 years I never knew its name (or Christian Bale as a kid) until today. I think this is where my obsession with Japanese culture in general started. It was pretty impactful. Damn, I wasn't expecting to cry while writing this.
I think this is the most subjective and autobiographical film of mr. Spielberg's, exhibiting his true emotional devastation that resulted from his parents' divorce and the chaos that followed when he was a child himself. A true masterpiece in every sense of the word, and one of the most important films ever made, as it confronts unspeakable trauma with genuine optimism and nobility, and through catharsis displays true healing power of art.
What I love about this film is those moments of childhood fantasy and abandon that sweeps Jamie up at offbeat moments. Whether it's him cycling carefree around his empty home or jumping around in celebration at the US air attack on the Japanese airfield whilst everyone flees in terror. Or the idea that the atom bomb he witnesses is someone's spirit. It seems that the horrors of war cannot penetrate his childlike innocence but come the final scene you know it has.
When he is reunited with his parents in that final scene, he looks totally emotionless and exhausted (note that it is only his mum that recognises him at first as his dad walks straight past him).
And then there's that final shot of Jamie's suitcase of belongings floating down the river and with it his childhood. That's the heart breaker for me.
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
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I didn't find the ending to be anticlimactic at all. When he finally sees his parents, it takes him some time to realise who they are....then when he leans into his mother's arms his eyes slowly shut. At last he is home and he can rest. The Welsh lullaby which is being sung , emphasises this moment - he is home at last, in her arms.
Very good observation about the Welsh lullaby - I definitely didn't catch that!
Absolutely not at all. There's that conversation he has with the doctor about not being able to remember what his mother looks like (a classic stage of grief, indeed, what my father said to me the night after my mother died ;(_ _ ) and then comes the reunion - which is after a traumatic hiatus of four years, let us not forget - when he dimly recognises her but like a blind child he has to feel the contours of her face and touch her hair to confirm it is really his mother before he can surrender to her embrace.
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
広島・長崎人体実験でした！
戦争が早く終わりそうだから
原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。
戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする
偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を
記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに
持ち帰りました！
Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
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I’ve never been the kind of person who easily feels things in a movie. I always associate films with being entertainment. But this movie is one of the few that actually made me cry, because I felt so much that every character feels in this film. Honestly an absolute classic.
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
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Most underrated film of all time.
I was on a Spielberg binge for a class and out of all of his films, this one stuck out the most. I love Spielberg and all of his big ones - but you're so right, this one was underrated and not talked about enough!
I saw a poll of people rating Christian Bale's best performances. "Empire of the Sun" was far in the lead.
Not even slightly. It's nails every beat and is a pretty accurate adaptation of the book. You should definitely give it a go.
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
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Empire of the sun was one of my favorite movies. The entire P51 sequence is just amazing, the little boy in all of us can relate. Even now the sight of one in person gives me goose bumps.
Good, but it wasn't only about Jim's coming of age. The world was changing and Jim represented many of the Western citizens who clung to their processions and resorted to tribalism throughout the movie. During WWII, Britain changed from an arrogant colonial power to slowly realizing that compromises were necessary b/c the war would not be about loyalties and possessions but life and death.
In this scene, after the Americans kill Jim's new Japanese friends, they offer their companionship but Jim rejects them. He knows they aren't his real friends and he no longer wishes to be a part of a hollow value system where life matters less than possessions and power. The old Jim who identified as a wealthy son of the British Empire is long dead and gone and his Japanese friend wanted to make friends with Jim more than he wanted to fight for the Japanese Empire.
They used to say that the sun never sets on the British Empire. And the Japanese empire was a symbol of the sun. The Americans created the power of the sun with the atom bomb that Jim witnessed. The old Jim would have been fascinated by these displays of power by these empires. But the new Jim forgot he was British, saw the Japanese boy as his friend and fascinated by the atom bomb, but not because it's power, but because he thought the bright light it created was a person's spirit going to heaven.
Beautifully said. I'm so afraid that we loose the sense of the past, that how horrible WWII was and that we'll repeat the same mistakes. The west NEEDS to recognize its arrogance and that we aren't these polished heroes that brought peace. And the east needs to understand that society, people and the world move on from old traditions and new ones will be made.
My pompous, insufferably leftist film studies professor would have loved you.
@@WilliamLaMont-k7gClearly he had good taste in films.
Speilburg"s big heart and his cinematic skill makes him a gift to the world
I think Jim's love of flying is what keeps his innocence, the people around him and the war try and take it away
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
One of my favorites of all time . This is a timeless piece
As a 6 year old boy I actually watched this movie and never in the middle did i got bored!
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
I'm the same, very young when I watched it first, and I was absolutely captivated 👍
There are so many layers in this film, and it is my favorite film. It has the complexity of a book. There's a scene in the beginning of the movie, before the Japanese invade, where Jim is put to bed and his mother and father are standing over him. Later in the movie, when Jim moves into the American barracks, he hangs the cover of a magazie on the wall with what looks like a Norman Rockwell painting of a man and woman standing over their child's bed. Then, after the attack on the airfield by the Americans, Jim confesses he doesn't remember what his parents look like. The closest thing he has to them is the magazine cover. When they're at the costume party and discussing whether the Japanese will invade, there's one person standing in the background wearing a costume of Death watching Jamie's dad and the ambassador talk. In the end, when his young friend is shot, Jim has blood on his hands, but when he pulls the boy out of the water and looks at his hand, there is no blood. There is so much symbolism and depth in this movie that each time I watch it I see something new. It's why this movie feels like a book to me. This is Speilberg at the height of his power as a film maker and story teller.
Really great observations, man. I will definitely look for these bits next time I watch!
To think that Bale was not even _nominated_ for an Academy Award is enough to make me throw up.
Same
SAME
Best child actor ever
😮 what was the Academy smoking that year???
It was a brilliant film. I love how Spielberg can find the most talented kids to play in his movies.
From beginning to end an exceptional movie with one of the most beautiful music scores ⭐️
The empire of the sun is a movie that will mean a lot to me forever. The perfect definition of cult movie
Always loved this movie, I saw it as a 7 year old when it came out, and it affected me emotionally, especially the part where he tries to revive the Japanese boy. I love Jim as a character and still try to keep characters like him with me as a man as not to lose my own boyish wonder no matter what I've experienced. Thanks for posting
Thats a very wonderful sentiment you have there sir .
広島・長崎人体実験でした！
戦争が早く終わりそうだから
原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。
戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする
偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を
記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに
持ち帰りました！
Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
When Baisey is beaten by the Japanese and tosses Jim his sunglasses, it's the first time the audience ( and Jim ) see's Baisey's eyes.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！
戦争が早く終わりそうだから
原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。
戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする
偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を
記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに
持ち帰りました！
Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
Why did I read this as “when Baisey is eaten”
@@conservativecalvinist3308 Japan fought against the West to liberate Asia!
The world is to meet like one family.
Does this become the one that the fundamental principle of the national order was shown? To date, the national order is a strong eater of the weak. A strong country exploits a weak country. The place does not exploit the weakest family by the order of one u or the family. The house is a system in which the strong person works for the weak. The world becomes peaceful for the first time when the strongest country in the world has a system to work for weak country and weak people. Because Japan was strongly connected, and it matched the heart which gave birth to the man of heaven and earth, and it was said that it was necessary to work for weak people. What a big thing to do. The people of Japan must be shaken up. The strong country is a weak race.
Daito A.D. Joint Declaration
Suppression 〻 each country each country each country each country each country each country wo to get phase倚 Ri-so Fukete Manbang Kyoeen-no-Raku-o Kai Nisuruha World Peace Establishment Nomoto Yoshinari
然ルニ米英ハ自國ノ繁榮ノ爲ニハ他國家他民族ヲ抑壓シ特ニ大東亞ニ對シテハ飽クナキ侵略搾取ヲ行ヒ大東亞隷屬化ノ野望ヲ逞シウシ遂ニハ大東亞ノ安定ヲ根柢ヨリ覆サントセリ大東亞戰爭ノ原因ココニ存ス
Daito Amoroi Kokuha Phase Alliance Daito 戰爭 Wo FinalIty Shi Daito Awa Eino 桎梏 Yori Liberation Ite Self-Existence Egowo All Ushi Sano Con code Ni Motoki Daito Ato Awo Construction Shiite World Peace No Establishment Niyo Senkotowo Period
1, Daito Aa each country each country ha cooperative Daito Ano stable wo securing Shido Yoshini motoku coexistence Co-Eino order wo construction su
1, Daito Each Country Ha Mutual Ni Independent Kyotachi-O Respect Shi Mutual Aid Atsu no Minoru Wo 擧Ge Daito Ayano Oya Wawo Establishment
1, Daito Each Country Each KuniHa Mutual Ni Sono Dentowo Respect Shi Each EthnicIty No Creativity Nobunobu Shi Daito Ayano Culture Wo Yangshu
1, Daito Each Country Each Country Ha Mutual Alliance Shi-no-濟 Exhibition Wo圖 Ri Oto Ayano Shigeeiwo 增Shinsu
1, Daito Each Country Ha Mankuni Tono Friendship Wo Atsuushi Racial Discrimination Wo Withdrawal 廢 Shipu ku Culture Wo Exchange Shishin Nde Resource Wo Open Shiite World No Luck Ni Tribute 獻
That salute with the Japanese pilots always gets to me ..the camera angle..the pilots are larger than life...in that moment they were not enemies..they were heroes.
Yeah, heroes who flew into ships kamikaze style. This movie is pure fantasy. Japan was brutal towards POWs and civilians.
@@catherinelw9365The movie portrays that too. You've clearly never seen it, so your opinion is meaningless.
The Imperial Japanese were no different from Nazis(even worse in some cases) so you are pretty much calling the most evil humans ever lived "heroes"
As a kid this film changed my life. I am still tearing up.
I loved that film when I first saw it. The music (choir) still gives me goosebumps today. I went to see it with my parents and my mother cried when, at the beginning Jim's mom got dragged by the crowd and loose him. I guess only a mum can really feel what would it mean to loose a child this way. Anyways, I kinda agree that there is no real story but only Jim's journey throughout the war. Beautiful movie!!
Guys,i watched this film when i was a lil kid and now that i am looking at it again.It made me thing "the world is a place with bad people but,there will always be good people in the world"
This is one of the top best movies I ever watched in my opinion.
The only time I thank the RUclips recommendation and you for this
I’ve never felt so touched with this film until now, thank you very much.
By far my favorite Spielberg film and one of my favorite movies of all time. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
In "Empire of the Sun," I saw Spielberg all through it. He was fascinated with aircraft as a high school student in Phoenix, using them in his first 8mm films.
Spielberg is a absolute genius! Favourite films of all time Empire of the Sun and Schlinders List - both masterpieces!!
This movie desrves a rewatch and then another rewatch just to ansorb the acting and how well every scene is shot. Just amazing
So true!
It's all real. It all happened to ballard, his book is wonderful and Spielberg did it real justice. The casting was great. A rare movie. I love it very much.
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No, great liberties are taken. For instance, he couldn't have possibly have seen either one of the nuclear attacks from Shanghai
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst The teachings of the samurai's soul do not let others take control of life and death! It is the duty of the strongly born to help the bear. I was taught and fought for the descendants of my parents, sisters, younger brothers, and wives. 侍の魂の教えには、生殺与奪の権を他人に握らせるな！ 弱気人を助けることは、強く生まれた者の責務である、と。 教えられ、父母妹弟・妻の後世の産まれてくる子孫の為に戦った !
日本は、アジア解放の為に血を流したのです。
欧米は、アジアの侵略者だ！
Japan shed blood for the liberation of Asia。
The West is an Asian invader!
This is the first ever movie to make me cry in a overly emotional level nonstop that I had to go to the bathroom and cry more.
you too?
I was ugly crying
Kills me everytime.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！
戦争が早く終わりそうだから
原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。
戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする
偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を
記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに
持ち帰りました！
Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
The moment the Japanese guy who was nice to main character got shot I just started crying so hard for a good 20 mins
@@frankcamera1234 Steven Spielberg
Jewish, right?
In 1938, while serving as the director of the special agency for Harbin in Manchuria, he worked on Manchukuo to rescue Jewish refugees who had fled Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The second is the Japanese garrison on Kiska Island, which was on the verge of breaking the jade under the overwhelming siege of the U.S. Army during his tenure as commander of the Northern Army (later the Fifth Area Army) in 1943. Successful "miracle operation" to secretly withdraw a little less than a thousand soldiers. Third, in 1945, he unilaterally abandoned the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty and entered the war, ordering the Soviet Union forces that continued to invade even after the end of the war, and crushed their ambitions. That is (Hokkaido was hard protected by the victory on the northernmost island of Kita-Kuril Islands, Shumshu Island, and the struggle on Sakhalin)
I absolutely love this movie and the struggles Jim Graham (Christian Bale) portrays. It tears my heart.
This is a great video, great editing, great narrator and great movie analysis
Thank you Sergio!
I wish could give you 10 likes worth for this documentary. Cheers from Brazil.
Thank you my friend. Some of my College roommates were from Brazil. I hope to visit one day!
I have always connected this film to the original Lord of the Flies film. The theme of saving our existence is extraordinary in both films. Well done!
Suo Gan is played at different times in the movie. It is a lullaby. I believe that is significant. Jim sings the Welsh words but probably doesn’t know what they mean - but the audience does. It speaks of resting in mother’s arms where none shall harm you. Jim’s quest is to find his parents but most specifically his mother and it is in her arms that he finally closes his eyes in rest. He has been greatly harmed outside his mother’s embrace.
This is such a beautiful comment. I had no idea the role music played in the film. Thank you for sharing!
Imagine watching this as an 8 years old! Dude, I was lucky in my childhood watching hard stories in this film.
Thank you. I seen this film as a kid and it's powerful.
The scene where Jamie walks up to the Gone With the Wind advertisement is Spielberg admitting he is telling a similar tale. Jamie is Scarlett (spoiled and living an idyllic life)/ Basie is Rhett (a vehicle for survival)/ The Doctor is Melanie (unable to survive on his own but offers a reason to survive by giving meaning to life, so he should be protected). Not to belittle the film - it is a spectacular achievement. I just watched it again with my 14 year old daughter and she was mesmerized the whole film. She caught that the doctor had similar physical mannerisms to Jamie's father that I had never noticed in at least 10 viewings. The score is so beautiful.
I've always loved this movie...my favorite scene being when the P-51 (Cadillac of the sky) flies past and the pilot has an open canopy...on the side of the plane is the name Tugboat...after it flies past the canopy is closed and there is no name on the side of the plane....never noticed that fact until just now
After the real P51 flies past, the next shot is of a remote model of a 51.
The pilot in the P 51 was my father - Ray Hanna.
I need to watch this movie again! I remember watching it so many years ago and the scene of the P-51 flying by and the pilot waving...and I went directly to tears. I hope a few other Av-nut/P-51-fans did the same when they saw it.
FINALLY A FOUND THIS MOVIE 10 YEARS FINDING THIS
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
広島・長崎人体実験でした！
戦争が早く終わりそうだから
原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。
戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする
偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を
記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに
持ち帰りました！
Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
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@@ヤマトウズメ-r1o dafuq
@@dzhonoficialc8022 Dafuq? Are you high?日本語が
理解できない者は、人間に非ず。
It's a great movie on many levels
J’adore ce film il est magnifique un vrai classique.
Ballard, 😍
This is so well explained and makes me love the movie even more! Thank you! :)
EOTS was one of the movies that made me want to visit China. I had a few days in Shanghai and I walked the streets where the events in the film took place. The airfield that they built in the film is now the location of the the Shanghai international airport
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I remember seeing this movie with my dad when I was younger. I didn't understand the plot and the main idea at the time, but this video really helped me understand it.
I love a great film like that who transports me to another time and place. This one is so beautiful and tragic. Thanks for sharing.
Nobody makes a movie like S pielberg. no body writes a score like John Williams. This was the golden age of film making.
Could Dunkirk challenge Spielberg's films? I mean I thought that film was legendary.
I watched this movie, together with my older sister, when I was twelve. The same age as Jim (Jamie). It made a big impression on me then. I now realize that it is the best movie I ever watched. Also due to the music which was great. Something we now take for normal but was superb for the time (1987). Actually it is timeless.
There you go: a master lesson, and a perfect student
Crazy that Jim was played by a young Christian Bale
This film has been overlooked compared with his more popular movies like e.t. and needs a 4k release for its 35th anniversary. I never saw this in the Theater but saw it on vhs and loved the score which has been used in movie trailers specifically Cadillac of the skies .
this is one of my fav movies. Thank you great ,voice great way of summing up the film.
Thank you, my friend!
@@GeoffStone it is true Geoff you picked a great film then you explained it to us so well. AND the connection between the two is so great. thank you
I read the book first, but, unlike most other book to movies this one was was just how I read it ( or should I say, the way I saw it ). It's the only movie I've watched that brought tears to my eyes!
One of the best performance of Christian Bale.
Great essay, man! Looking forward to more!
Thank you Clarence!
It is an amazing movie and an awesome review. Thank you very much.
You did a good analysis, but you missed one point: exactly what did Jim learn about life and people? I think this is answered in the scene where the Japanese pilot is killed. Malkovich asks him, "Didn't you learn anything?" and Jim replied, "I learned that a person will do anything for a potato." In other words, a person will do anything to survive. Jim bowed to the enemy to survive. He tried to help others survive. And to him, "others" included the enemy. That's why he was ready to kill the men who killed his Japanese friend. He has gone from an idealistic child to a potentially dangerous adult who will do anything for a potato (life).
Man, how do you think of that sorts of stuff. You guys are geniuses.
Yeah it works sometimes...but then spare a thought for the guys that the Japanese forced to dig their own graves, then decapitated them into it.
Sometimes bowing is just dying, it depends on the situation.
Hi there, yes I agreed with the most part of your comments, but let me ask you this: What would you do in order to survive? Well, if the potato could be your salvation, you would pay that price. Since I have watched this movie it got me think what kind of person this turned out in his life? I have only one aswer: Nothing in this world would shake him!
Jim doesn't just learn, he teaches, he teachers nigel havers doctor, he teaches the camp comondant, he finaly gives basey a lesson.
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This was my favorite movie as a child.
Watched this movie for the first time last week and immediately it became my favourite spielberg film and probably one of my favourite films ever, great video really enjoyed the analysis, wish you went over his relationship with the doctor as that was my favourite aspect of the film! Defo subscribing!
Thank you, my friend! Yeah, there are so many great layers to explore in this film - especially his relationship with the doctor! Definitely missed out on that.
P-51 Mustang = "Cadillac of the Sky" :o))
*Steven Spielberg's film "Empire of the Sun" is a MASTERPIECE !!!!*
No doubt !!!!
a great analyse sir. i just watched this video and saw this video ! war changes people even though war itself never changes.
Thank you my friend!
This is my fave movie of all time.
Finally someone who feels the same. :D
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You must also add, the enormous amount of "extras/the crowd". Also, he loves picture-perfect scenes of a particular character and its shadow. And some things that I just can't describe. Thanks to you, now I can.
In Super 8, It didn't give any hint that movie would be an Alien-invasion type of genre (didn't get to see the trailer first though before watching the whole film).
I recall this particular scene @10:28, in the behind-the-scene DVD special features, Christian Bale kind of made a mistake (missed to show the correct reaction from the before and after that big explosion) and was kind of reprimanded by Spielberg.
It's crazy that Christian Bale has been acting basically his entire life. That's true commitment.
The movie have many amazing scenes, magnificent, lively films
I had never seen this movie and really am happy I watched it, it may be semi autobiographical but what a great story. Him not recognizing his parents really brought me to tears in a way only Spielberg can... very similar to the end of Schindler's list when he realizes he could have sold a ring or a car to save more lives.
Yeah, Spielberg is such a masterful storyteller.
Honest to god, I started eating rice (and never stopped) after seeing this movie with the scene when they were fighting over a handful of rice.
欧米・中国が何億人殺した
280年植民地にした
家畜にした
奴隷労働に使った
Europe, America and China killed hundreds of millions
280 colonized
Made into livestock
Used for slave labor
広島・長崎人体実験でした！
戦争が早く終わりそうだから
原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。
戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする
偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を
記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに
持ち帰りました！
Hiroshima Nagasaki jintai jikkendeshita! Sensō ga hayaku owari-sōdakara genshi bakudan no jintai jikken jikkō shita nodesu. Sengo Hiroshima no hibaku-sha shōjo o tasukeru chiryō o suru itsuwari no chiryō de shōjo ga hibaku de shinde iku katei o kiroku shite shinu to zōki o toridashi Amerika ni mochikaerimashita!
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Doesn't everyone eat rice 🤣
@@kiirosoleil Doesn't everyone eat rice
Wonderful movie!
This is my favourite flim 2021 still watching this
It seems like you forget this movie is based on a book of Jim, who went through the atrocities of WW 2, went through these things. Although when I read the book, it’s true that Spielberg didn’t totally follow all the details of the book, he absolutely followed the emotions of what Jim went through and that is what he brings out in the movie.
I'll have to check the book out. I had no idea it was based on one. I gotta do better research!
Just absolutely brilliant and at times beautiful m
3:59 このシーン好き！零戦パイロットも少年に敬意を払う。
My all time favorite film.
Assisti esse super filme de guerra no ano de 1989, e nunca irei esquece-lo como o melhor que vi ate hoje! Essa pelicula e fantastica!!
I like the video man. I subscribed after like 30 seconds
1:12 the Japanese soldiers were like “Ar...are we in India? Or America?”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
STILL one of the best films ever and overlooked cause it was realistic cinematic masterpiece , like the epic features from the 50'S 40'S very David Niven
Clearly articulated ideas, and further proof that I should probably see this fricken movie. XD
Lanooski just trying to get to your level!
10:05, for any who wonder...if a P-51 ever goes that slow, it'll be on the ground.
Nice clip to help students recognise the way a director effectively communicates ideas about character to an audience. One small error is that Basie is not a spy (although Jamie might fantasise about him being that). Basie is a petty crook and a survivor, probably in Shanghai out of bad luck. This film does indeed have a strong theme.
Yeah somehow I totally screwed that one up. Basie is definitely not a spy lol.
Excellent review of a film I love, made the year I entered this world
You should do Schindler's list too, as I know it would be very insightful comming from the maker of this vid 👍
Great Film
567 subs? Why not 1mil?
You’ve got my sub!
One of my favorite movie's
He DISCOVERED his parents. And our lovely Welsh lullaby _Suo Gan_ he sang as a choirboy was in the background as a reminder of the beauty of celebrating birth and being reborn. He saluted and sang _Suo Gan_ again to the Japanese Kamikaze pilots. Spielberg was brilliant in choosing a non-English song to transcend an English and Japanese speakers audience narrative.
If you read the translation of the lullaby in context of the Kamikaze it'll make your weep buckets.😭😭
@@ac1646 wow - I had no idea it went that deep. Thank you for sharing!
Bale is in one of the top 3 Actors in in the last Five Decades.
Totally agree
Saying the movie has no meaning is very unfair. Maybe it's just because I look for meaning in everything, but I got some messages out of it personally. Shoot, you could interpret several different meanings from the final scene where he closes his eyes alone. And what about the picture of the Norman Rockwell painting of the parents putting their children to bed that Jim constantly hangs up in his spaces? Surely one could derive meaning from that.
It may not be the most deep, thought-provoking film out there, but at the very least it does take a look at how the war affected the psychology of children who were more directly exposed to it. Much like the Soviet film, 'Come and See' did, only much less graphic and about a different theatre of the war. While it can be difficult to judge just how much it has affected Jim at times on account of him retaining a good chunk of his innocence until literally the last ten or so minutes of the film, one could also argue that his persistent innocence is a sort of coping or defense mechanism for him and the audience, even. But I'm biased I suppose, because I am going to step in to defend any WWII movie that I enjoyed because I love the topic so much. I do have questions about the historical accuracy of the film, such as the fact that they had what appeared to be American pilots in a civilian camp (maybe it happened late war, idk), but I did enjoy watching it!
I don't know if I meant that it had no meaning! It definitely has meaning. You're right. Someone could find a ton from it. That's the beauty of this medium!
Ive looked for this movie since I was 10. Saw it on cable in the 90s. Havnt seen it since.
Did it have to have a "story" or "meaning?" Wasn't that the point? To capture the greatest casualty of war: youth (or, more simply, time)?
I agree, that's an interesting & honest way of looking at it, Bale really showed that, too.
He will always be the greatest director ever
absolutely love this classic. One of Steven Spielberg best masterpiece, one of Christian Bale's best performance that launch his career....
You got some characters and scenes wrong. Baisey is not a spy, he was an opportunistic American guy living in Shanghai. And the after the Americans bombed the internment camp, the Japanese evacuated and forced the prisoners to march along with them. Jim and Mrs. Victor pretended to be dead when they reached that area full of furniture and chandeliers of the rich. That’s when he experiences the atomic bomb, thinking it was Mrs’ Victor’s spirit but learning later it was the atom bomb. He returned to the internment camp, living off of the war rations dropping from the sky (Americans dropping them) and was found by the Americans there. Even before Jim met Baisey, he already idolized a character like him - shown by the comic book he was reading in the beginning of the movie, with an image of a guy who Baisey personified with the sunglasses and cap. Very American hero. And he was so impressed with the Americans. This was a period in history when America was a rising power. Even my grandparents in the Philippines idolized Americans like MacArthur who helped liberate the country in WW2. MacArthur also had that look - macho, american hero, sunglasses, cap, military guy.
Yeah, I gotta do better research. Thank you!
Why is nobody saying how under rated this guy is????
Appreciate that brother!