In 1942, Japanese attacked Singapore. The British soldiers made the immediate decision, European women and children should all retreat and all the soldiers need to be ready to fight. Unfortunately, the Japanese army attacked the ship, forcing people on board to jump into the sea. Many women and children were captured by Japanese, and sent to the concentrated camp, and waiting for “a road to paradise”. In the movie, I found several very interesting scenes that moved me. In the movie, the Chinese woman tried to get the medicine for the sick British woman. However, she was discovered and was burned to death, bring audience a tragedy. Later in the movie, the brutal incident happened again, when the British woman Susan McCarthy mocked the Japanese flag, the angry Japanese Captain punished her severely. He put sharp wood sticks around her and let her knee down in front of the flag. Whether she moved forward or backward, she would lose her life. This let me connect to one of the major themes we covered this semester: the Holocaust of Jewish people, which happened in approximately the …show more content…
Even the war is going harsh; the Japanese soldiers still have their kindness as human beings. Here is one scene in the movie: when the women orchestra started its first show, the fierce Japanese soldiers tries to rebuke them, but when the music started, they all stopped. Every soldier was moved by the sorrowful rhythm. Even the war had made them bad, they were still people who missed home and the people they loved. In my opinion, this was why they ignored the orders of the officers, put their guns down, stayed aside, and listened to the music carefully. I think this scene was the most powerful in the film; both soldiers and captures wanted to go home sincerely and met their loved ones again. At that moment, the music was not secular; it was a spiritual moral power that goes beyond