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Originally Posted by Richie
I'm surprised at this one. Although there were a lot of brutes as far as treatment goes in POW camps as far as the Japanese Army goes here's something that totally threw me for a loop. I was listening to CBC radio this morning, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those not in the know. Anyway a man from Victoria BC was on David Bucham was his name. He was talking about the movie Empire Of The Sun and how the whole situation at the camp was backwards. Hayashi the man who was the head man at the camp according to testimony after testimony and there were many of them was a total gentleman. Those were the words used. Anyone who got sick got the best care possible. No one was ever harmed. The reason these Boo Boos bug me is people watch these films and take them for fact. Especially when they're made by someone like Spielberg
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if people watch these movies and takes them for facts they probably need a better education or simply need to learn reading, so they can read the bit where it says "the facts and names portrayed in this movie are purely fictional and not based on real events"
I frankly think the main issue is that we tend to portray things like the war from one perspective only, which is painful and limiting.
We need more movies like "Stalingrad", "Das Boot" or even "Schindler's List" to have a more fair portrayal of the war end the people involved in it.
It's not like all the Nazis were evil monsters or the Allies were all good people that did only good.
The time of propaganda linked to WW2 should be long gone, but some stereotypes are hard to kill.