I just watched a movie called Children of Huang Shi. It's about a British journalist, George Hogg, and his experience in China during the Sino-Japanese War. Pretty early on in the movie, you have this incredible scene where Hogg inadvertently ends up photographing a massacre in Nanking, and then almost loses his head when the Japanese find his film. Shortly thereafter, he gets recruited to go to a town called Huang Shi, which has turned into a giant orphanage for kids who lost their families in the war. Hogg thinks, I don't want to spend my time in China with a bunch of kids! I want to see the real war. And this pretty white lady who works as a nurse there tells him, don't be silly. You want to see the real war? These kids and their predicament are the unfortunate side effects of it. So he sticks around, earns their trust, and ends up being more emotionally invested in saving them than he could have ever imagined. It's a good movie—George Hogg was a real guy, and this was a real war, and the ending is appropriately moving. It's directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Turner & Hooch, Tomorrow Never Dies) and stars hotties Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Yeoh, and Chow Yun Fat.
It was a quite good movie, execpt for the pro-communist parts.
Posted by: DanSan | June 12, 2008 at 02:30 AM