I always like to watch movies. To me every time I watch a movie, it is like an escape from the reality world. Time seem to have stop during this two hours, everything else doesnt matter for now as you embark on a journey that is so much different life. You watch soldiers fighting for their homeland, heroes saving the world . . . killing monsters, see how couples overcome all odds to be together in romance movies and laugh at the characters in comdey or maybe you spent the whole 2 hours trying to decipher the message the movie is try to convey.
I watched the highly acclaimed, Letters From Iwo Jima yesterday. It was quite a good movie, trying to portray both side in fair light and showing humanity even in the "evil" japanese soldiers. Even though the japanese was often said to be the bad guys who kill numerous innocent lives in China, Korea and the South East Asia countries in WW2, the movie showed through the characters that, hey they too have families, they are husbands, fathers and sons too. They also grieve other the loss of their loved ones and they too feel the agony of being apart with their families.
I saw how nationalistic the japanese soldiers were, choosing to kill themselves with grenades when they were going to be overran. Surrendering was a taboo.
After the movie, I was intrigued enough to find more about the Battle of Iwo Jima and found a few pictures . . .
See how beautiful the island is . . .
A memorial held at the island . . .
Japanese memorial . . .
