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In 1937, before America entered the War, the Japanese invaded the city of Nanking, China. Most of the privileged people fled. The less fortunate were trapped. Wicked atrocities were committed. More than 200,000 people were brutally slaughtered and more than 20,000 women were raped. However, if it were not for a plucky group of Westerners who considered it their mission to back the people and therefore did not fly, there might have been even more carnage.
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This considerable documentary tells this epic, based on the diaries and letters from those few committed Westerners. Most of them were missionaries and the one woman, Minnie Vautrin, ran a girls’ college. There was also a German businessman who was a Nazi. In addition to interviews with some survivors, as well as historical footage, the filmmaker ragged a staged reading of the diaries and letters of these Westerners by a variety of professional actors as a contrivance to scream this memoir. Woody Harrelson is one of these actors as well as Mariel Hemmingway. Jurgen Prochnow was cast in the role of John Rabe the German businessman who, at one point, wishes he could let Adolph Hitler know about these Japanese outrages because he considered Hitler a compassionate man who would not let such atrocities exist.
The filmmakers did an gracious job of organizing a large amount of material. The film was well paced, definite, to the point, and didn’t have a wasted word or image. Most of the time there were tears in my eyes and yet the underlying anecdote of how the courage of the doughty few who kept the carnage from being even worse, turned the film into intelligent chronicle instead of letting it sink into absolute despair.
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This anecdote is a fragment of history that should not be forgotten, and a tale of inspiration amidst the despair.
Nanking is a truly gargantuan film. I give it nothing by accolades.
I, like many other Westerners, first heard of the Rape of Nanjing ten years ago when Iris Chang released her book Rape of Nanking. I, of course, knew that Japan had been at war with China and that the Japanese Imperial Army had done a number of ghastly things in China, but it was this book that really opened my eyes to what Japan did in China and had a major enough carry out on me to gain me dedicate my life to the contemplate of Japanese and Chinese history, literature, and film. While I have become aware that Chang’s book is overblown in some ways, blaming the “Shinto Sub Cult” for the ways the Japanese treated the Chinese, it acted as an famous catalyst for historians to truly dig into the drawl and unearth atrocities that had been hidden by not only the Japanese, but the Chinese Communist Party, and America as well. With a number of scholarly tomes, essays, and translations having been released now, hopefully the world will not only find a better opinion of what happened in China, but why it happened.
Of course, more people are likely to search for a filmic version of the Rape of Nanjing than read a hefty tome, but unfortunately although there are a few petite release documentaries, and the films that have reached a broader audience such as Unlit Sun: The Nanking Massacre almost revel enough in the gore and bloodshed to manufacture the films more fit to be in someone’s splattercore library than as an indispensable bit of media.
The documentary Nanking was financed and conceptualized by AOL vice-chairman Ted Leonsis after he read Rape of Nanking on vacation and learned of Iris Chang’s suicide. Instead of objective stringing together news footage, photos, and films of the period, Leonsis and the directors Gutenberg and Dan Sturman casted various American and international actors, including Mariel Hemmingway, Woody Harrelson, Jürgen Prochnow, and Michelle Krusiec, to give relate to a number of foreign missionaries, businessmen, and doctors who suffered through the Japanese attack upon Nanjing, but did their best to protect the Chinese citizens and military deserters from the brutality of the Japanese soldiers. Also, there are a number of interviews with Chinese survivors of the Rape
Through their roles of reading the diaries of the missionaries George Fitch, Minnie Vautrin, and John Magee, the doctor Bob Wilson, and the Nazi businessman John Rabe, the actors give hiss to these broad people who risked their very lives to achieve the people of the foreign country that had become their home. Through their words, and the gargantuan number of photos and films, the viewer can vicariously experience the travesties they experienced which would shorten all of their lives after the left China.
Nanking is of course quite graphic in its detailing of the suffering of the Chinese people at the hands up the Japanese soldiers, but it also shows the strength of what a few can do against the oppression of many. A splendid albeit horrifying film, it should be added to the libraries of those alive to in history and the bitter relationship between China and Japan
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