1937 after the fall of Nanjing, only one Catholic church was temporarily uninhabited. Female students from the church school, prostitutes, soldiers and wounded soldiers on the Qinhuai River, and an American John all entered the church one after another. In this relatively closed space, they face a life-and-death disaster together and have all kinds of wonderful feelings.

However, the church is not a pure land forever, and the temporary tranquility was quickly broken-the Japanese army rushed into the church and found the female students, and the soldiers who desperately resisted shot and saved the female students at the crucial moment, and sacrificed heroically. Later, the Japanese army forced female students to perform for the Japanese army at the celebration. Everyone knows that this will be a broken road.

Unwilling to be humiliated, the female students prepared to commit collective suicide, but they were saved by prostitutes headed by Yumo. Finally, these prostitutes, usually regarded as lowly 13, inspired chivalry and blood in front of the invaders' inhuman butcher knives. They wore poetry robes and took scissors instead of the female students in the church to go to a tragic death pact. ...

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Evaluation of flowers of war

Famous comments

Yan Geling (famous writer, masterpiece "Heavenly Bath" and "A Woman's Epic") I'm telling a unique, complicated and infectious story.

Liu Heng (famous writer, screenwriter, masterpiece assembly number "Chrysanthemum Bean" and "Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum") and "flowers of war" will surely become world-class movies, and will reach a new height in Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou (famous director): The adaptation of flowers of war is the best script I have encountered in my 20 years as a director. With such a book in my hand, I often feel that I have won a prize.

Flowers of war is my longest, most expensive and most attentive movie. I only hope that everyone can see a good movie, which is my greatest wish.

Hot review of foreign media

Zhang Yimou is still very extravagant in visual effects, and Christian Bale is obviously the solid core of the story.

Playlist of famous movie blogs: Although the trailer looks uneven in some places, it is impressive as a whole.

Huffington Post: The effect of the trailer proves that this movie costs 1 100 million dollars, which is gorgeous and stylized, especially when the capital of China was torn by war and explosion, which really caught people.

The New York Times wrote in an article entitled "Multilingual Debate at the Oscars": "flowers of war shows great enterprise, not only inviting Christian Bale, an outstanding Hollywood actor, to join us, but also having very good special effects. The production cost of this film is as high as $90 million, which is the most expensive film in China film market today.

Therefore, it is predicted that this film will be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The Los Angeles Times bluntly said that flowers of war "should easily be one of the five films on the final nomination list", which also confirmed the Toronto Sun's earlier prediction that flowers of war has become a hot spot on the Oscar nomination list for best foreign language film.

Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-Flower of War