If you don't wanna be depressed AND horrified, don't see "City of life and death" if it comes out

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In the United States;

The most depressing and disturbing flick I've ever been to. It's about the Japanese massacre at Nanjing. Yeah it's about two hours of horrific murder and women being savagely raped. Oh, the extra fun is when they throw a toddler out a window. Get the idea?

I will say it's good, just too fucked up, and I'm a guy who's seen his fair share of dead bodies in real life. I kept wanting it to end then there would be more horrific shit. Didn't help seeing it in a theatre full of Chinese either, needless to say considering it is their grandparents generation that was butchered, they're a tad sensitive about it hence crying noises all over the place.... of course that's when the cells weren't ringing. You'd think of you were gonna see a movie about the massacre of your people 70 years ago, you'd turn off the cell so "the macarena" ringtone you use didn't break out at a key moment.

[NewJeffCT]

1. thanks - I heard it had a big opening in China

My wife & her family are from Nanjing as well.

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2. So you know? Well, take the stories you've heard and put them on screen

As good as the movie is in many aspects, you don't get much education out of (Aside from the Japanese were nutjobs back then). So, the violence is really all the flick is.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Noted.

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4. make it dualy noted.. trust me

[PeaceNikki]

5. OK, done.

I don't typically gravitate toward movies like that anyway.

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6. A friend of mine knew Iris Chang and said that the work she did on her most famous book,

"The Rape of Nanking," was primarily responsible for her suicide. In addition to the outside pressures from government and others, the revelations she made doing research pushed her down extremely hard.

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7. yeah, the government likes to use the whole thing politically

it's rather sick, to exploit the massacre of your own people like that. Of course they HAVE massacred their own people so there ya go.