In the name of the history, all atrocities should be condemned; all innocent victims should be conciliated and all truths should be reavealed. In all souls of Chinese, we got a collective consciousness, which is the memory of how our species suffered in the World war II and the unforgettable scar and sorrow in the war against to Japan imperialism. Eight years of hard fighting against Japan invasion, the Chinese survival was put into severe tests, however, showed its magnificence and dignity. Nanking Massacre was one of the cruelest events in human history, no matter in its scale or in range. According to the summary judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East – also known as the Tokyo Trials, “estimates indicate that the total number of civilians and prisoners of war murdered in Nanking and its vicinity during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000. Unfortunately, the nation, Japan, which in charge of the atrocities still refuse to admit the rape of the Nanking and is unwilling to apologize to the victims. Furthermore, their authority cheat their own people and the whole world and try to cover up the atrocities. In order to accuse the feigned truths which was made to conceal the true history, after reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking", Bill Guttentag standed out as a director and producer with his outstanding idiosyncrasies, making a documentary about Nanking Massacre through the eyes of a group of the third-party people, the westerners. He interpreted the events through a different view, which in two parts moved me a lot, idiosyncrassies and humanity concern with no limitation.
The movie was made in a moving idiosyncrasy, which make its audiences impossible to ignore the shock and vigor transmit from the screen. Interviews of survivors and archival footages come one after the others, combine with a pre-filmed emotional stage reading of the diaries and letters which were written by those westerners holding the safety zone, it is so touchable that made me have goose bumps when I was watching. I remember an old lady, who described how her family were separated and how she was raped for exchange for her younger sister's life. The sadest scene to me is that she described this horrible event in a plain tone as if it happened to somebody else, however, I knew that the expression was a tone with no soul and animation, for that she had left her soul and happiness in the day her life was raped. I believe everybody could understand this. After unbearable agonies, people would lose some parts of themselves and their lives woould get tremendously changed. The reaction of the old lady coould be easily understand by all audiences and get their sympathies. However, there is nothing in the whole world could compensate or make up the old lady's lose in that catastrophic evening.
Secondly, another aspect moved me a lot in the film, which is the selflessness of those westerners. They could flee back to their countries, Japanese authority had already announced the quests of evacuation for those foreigners who still stayed in China, however, they chose to stay spontaneously. They might be killed by unleashed and mad Japanese soldiers or got shot for hanging around on the streets, not to mention to hold the safety zones for refugees, however, they did it. Only at the extreme situations could humans' noblest natures be displayed. They would not soldiers, on the contrast, they would just unarmed civilians, who were doctors, nurses, nuns, teachers and merchantdisers. They could get killed for these disobediences to the order of evacuation, but they would rather choose to stay, not because of they were trying to be heroes, but for they thought they should. They firmly believed in what they were doing at the mid of the massacre and at the moment, the released faces from refugees would their greatest rewards. There is a old yet percise term for whom did these great deeds, "Anonymous heroes", for them making all the differences for those refugees in matter of life and death. All Chinese and its descendents should honor their names and keep it in mind for their noblenesses, more even, the whole humanity should remember and cherish these characteristics in human being natures. No matter how the world changes, I believe in the noble characteristic in human nature.
To us, it might just a movie, which is as unreal as a distant war, but for those old ladies and old men, these are the wound and scar which haunt them to their death. We, Chinese, should not forget these, even, the world should not forget these. These stories should be recorded and carried on from generations to generations, in case of such cruelty will not happen again to any species in the world. After all, what make us superior to another creatures in the world? they are civilization, rationalism and kindness.
Written by Aries
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