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The dramatic action takes place in Burma (Burma) in July 1945. The main action takes place in the POW camp in the town of Mudon, its surroundings and surrounding roads. The main characters are the soldier Mizushima (Yasui), fond of playing the Burmese Harp (musical instrument simple, handcrafted, which consists of 12 strings), Captain Inouye (Mikuni), commanding the platoon to which it belongs and Mizushima alone (Kitabayashi).
During a mission to sow a group of Japanese soldiers who will not surrender, Private Mizushima is injured and left for dead. On the way back, is given chilling scenes look of death and desolation. The subjective camera screen shows scenes show cruel and Doloras consequences of war. It includes action sequences, but only samples of their ravages. Some images contain forms that recall the terrifying imagery of "The Charnel House" by Picasso. It links describing the horrors of war with contemplation and exaltation of nature, seen as a source of life and beauty. The draw beautiful, generous, warm, rich and arrogant. The described from a pantheistic view predisposed to divinizarla and worship according to the tenets of Buddhist sacred.
The style of narrative commitment to lyrical styling, expressive minimalism and debugging of forms. It offers deserted beaches, barren plains, gently rolling hills, long silences and gestures very content. Escape the spectacular and stunning. As opposed to the war, proposed a set of humanistic values related to the fellowship, the spirit of serving others, altruism, selfless sacrifice and the practice of music and singing as factors of understanding and solidarity among people .
The script certainly does not address the atrocities the Japanese did in this Southeast Asian country, but anecdotally sets his sights on a squad of soldiers and an officer (professional musician) they go through the red hills of Burma practicing songs for stay encouraged in the absence of direct confrontations. And especially focusing the story in that sergeant, with innate musical talent even without musical training, who plays the harp like an angel Burmese.
It is a curious film, noble, committed to human values (friendship, mercy, mercy, music in the old sense of method to calm the "bad blood and bad blood," to bury the dead, etc..), Values humans are presented as something stronger and principal evils that the struggles and also between humans.
And this, whether it be unrealistic historically speaking, is a way to focus a movie, as in film and literature and in painting, sculpture, architecture or simple decoration, not all attempts to carry out a work of art have to be realistic in their side-exact copy of reality, but there are a variety of get reality show softening, in poetry, filing, exaggerating, daydreaming, imagining other hidden faces of reality, even mitologizándola (for something there myth and has almost the same old reason of use).
It has also been criticized for this film their excess of good feeling, but it should be noted that both the optical realization as their physical shape of the pure Buddhism.
8/10
