Kamikaze

I rented a Japanese film Kamikaze yesterday. On the cover it said it is the action blockbuster of japan this year and is controversial.

It's a long film of more than 2 hours and beautifully made. All those Kamikaze pilots are played by those young, extreme clean-looking Japanese guys. One feels so ...o..o bad to think that they knew that they were destined to die and then died in all those violent, bloody ways. This sadness is fused with a pleasure, though. Or let me put in this way, the sadness is a part of the pleasure one feels when watching this kind of war film full of beautiful people, nice scenery, and death, because the tension of death, love, youth almost creates a sort of sexy atmosphere of the film.

Only this is really dangerous for such a theme, because Kamikaze is such a stupid and ridiculous event. Any sad, tragic description of it can only serve to cover its absurdity and affirms the Japanese Imperialist aesthetics of seeking beauty and national pride in death. I sympathize with those young boys as much as the women in the film, only sympathy for all these individuals can also put a layer of positive color to the ridiculous historical event and therefore make the event sympathetic, while the fact that those young, beautiful boys had to kill themselves for nothing is pathetic. To reveal this point, there is no way but sarcasm and irony, for the simple reason that you cannot describe a ridiculous, senseless thing with a sense of tragedy.

that's why I think the beautiful film Kamikaze is a bad film. Considering it was made in Japan, I think it is a politically dangerous film.