The Chinese film Dead to Rights has claimed his top position at the Chinese weekend coffers since its premiere on July 25th. He was the most watched film last weekend worldwide. According to the popular Chinese film industry tracker Maoyan, the film has recorded 1.7 billion Yuan, around $ 236.6 million, until Tuesday. The film has an assessment of 8.6 on the Chinese evaluation platform Douban and was reviewed or mentioned by international media such as “Variety”, Channel News Asia and others.
The film plays against the background of the Nanjing massacre in 1937 and follows the life of a group of Chinese civilians who are looking for refuge in a photo studio. As they fought for their survival, they helped a Japanese military photographer to develop films and discovered cruel pictures of the atrocities. You risked your life to secure the evidence.
The great success of the film is of course primarily due to the strong narrative and the artistic implementation. Director Shen AO avoids sensationalism and instead uses minimalist images to convey the horror, e.g. B. a knife that is held on a baby or streams of bloodshed. In this way, emotional depth and authenticity was created. The multi -layered narrative and the sophisticated production design of the film also offer viewers an incomparable technical craft.
The cinema seekers are from Dead to Rights Also attracted to the cinema because the film basically did justice to history. Evan Kail, an American who donated a photo album with Japanese war crimes to China, described the film as “ten of ten” who keeps history alive, honors the victim and uncover the past despite all resistance. The memory of the past does not serve to fuel or preserve hate, but should remind us of appreciating modern peace. The increasing visits to the Yasukuni shrine and the denial of the war through some Japanese right-wing ends now endanger the stability of Asia or even the world. By preserving evidence on the canvas, films such as Dead to Rights of Historical Amnesia Japan’s historical amnes and disclose the truth that must be recorded and told.
The film is to be premiered worldwide in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Malaysia, Singapore and others. With over 35 million military and civilian victims as a whole, China was an important but often forgotten member of the Allies who fought against Japan in the Second World War. The film Dead to Rights is both a universal call to peace and a truthful examination of history and deserves the time and attention of a worldwide audience.
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