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The Sun Film Analysis

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The Sun is the third piece of director Aleksandr Sokurov 's tetralogy on the power myths surrounding dictators. The story seemingly takes place over the course of just one day, August 15, 1945, the historical day Emperor Hirohito surrendered to Douglas MacArthur and renounced his divined nature. This essay will discuss the nature and role of change and tradition in the movie. Emperor Hirohito, whose viewpoint we are following, is a non-hero. He is a deity sitting in an Ivory Tower, a state of privileged seclusion from the facts and practicalities of the real world, while he cannot even button his own shirt. He makes decisions about war and the fate of his people while having no real contact with the situation. Moreover, he is not depicted as …show more content…

General McArthur is a strong, confident and capable soldier, who gained his position through battle, while Hirohito is a frail, soft-spoken intellectual born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The American headquarter is spacious and bright filled with young, cheerful soldiers who speak their mind, while the crypt-like bunker is under constant tension with sweating, pliable servants. Yet McArthur and Hirohito seem to reach an understanding and form a very unexpected bond, which proves that in this case, the enemy, which is used mainly for contrast, is not adversary. But then who or what is the …show more content…

Eliot once wrote, "We are always in danger, in clinging to an old tradition, or attempting to re-establish one, of confusing the vital and the unessential, the real and the sentimental. Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity, instead of aiming to stimulate the life which produced that condition in its time." Instead of attempting to provide a historically accurate portrayal of Hirohito and the actual events of 1945, The Sun serves as a reminder of what sort of risks clinging to traditions and hostility to change might

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