America's Past —— The Movie Enlightenment of Our Stars and Stripes

This film truly reflects the terrible history that few Americans know. The United States and its government are ashamed of their innocent citizens. Although this history is not as heinous as the Nanjing Massacre, it has caused no less psychological trauma to Asian Americans, especially Japanese Americans, than the Massacre. As one of the spiritual leaders in the film, Katz, the father of Lyle and Ryan, said to every player before that important baseball game: "Everyone ... we know what we have to do to win today, but ... today is not just about winning. Today's theme is excavation. The dignity of the game, dig us here. " After the Pearl Harbor incident, these Japanese-Americans who were born and raised in the United States and had American citizenship thought and handled things like other Americans, but they were imprisoned by their motherland because of the blood of the Japanese nation. Every Japanese-American, even Asian-American, upright white American, black American or American of any ethnic group, or anyone with a sense of justice, certainly didn't dare to accept this reality at that time: all this didn't happen for more than a century and a half since the founding of the United States 1776; At the same time, the United States did not imprison Americans of Italian and German descent from the other two Axis countries. Regarding the reaction of some upright Chinese-Americans to the actions of the American government at that time, Zhang Chunru, a Chinese-American writer, historian and author of the Nanjing Massacre, mentioned in his Chinese in the United States: "Some progressive Chinese-Americans, such as Hong Weiqing of Hawaii, speak out for the rights of Japanese-Americans." Why do people in China do this? Imagine joining Chinese Americans and keeping silent. If one day China goes to war with the United States, innocent Chinese Americans may be imprisoned.

It is against this background that the story begins. Japanese Americans were imprisoned from all over the United States to desolate concentration camps in the western United States. The protagonist in the film doesn't complain (there is a paragraph about 19 minutes and 20 seconds in the film about several Japanese-Americans protesting against this practice of the US government. A protester said, "How can we be detained? How can we be detained without being accused of breaking any laws? What happened to the constitution? Where are all the Germans? Where are the Italians? Seek answers ... "), or they protested, but individuals or small groups could not change the will of decision makers in the original environment. In short, they choose to accept the reality and face it. (Movie 16 minutes, Katz, the hero, said to people, "Listen, everyone. We must try our best to build a new home ... each of us. Too many of us are sick. " Ryan said, "We can repair these holes, make curtains and try our best to stop the wind and dust from coming in. We have more than 8000 people here. We have the skills we can use. Now the government won't help us, but they will allow us to use the mail-order catalogue and buy materials in other towns. We must pay for it ourselves, but if everyone contributes, as my father said, we can build a new home for ourselves out of necessity. " Although there are still a few people who complain for no reason and dare not accept the reality, such as Lyle, who has been complaining about losing the opportunity to go to college and get scholarships, most of them have United and survived strongly.

People began to pick up baseball bats, and began to look for hope in life and get out of the shadows. The most touching thing is that Ryan persuaded his family to join the army. He joined the 442nd Brigade, went to the European battlefield on behalf of the United States, and contributed to the victory of anti-fascism. More importantly, he and other Japanese-Americans proved by actions that "I am not Japanese. I was born here like you. " If threatened in the motherland, they will protect her with their flesh and blood.

Therefore, this film reflects American history, American people and American spirit. From this, we seem to vaguely see that the first generation of immigrants left their homes from Europe to North America in order to seek freedom such as religion, and created a great country from scratch. What we see is a pragmatic quality, a determination and perseverance to bravely accept the reality and change ourselves to change the environment, and a fearless spirit. These qualities and spirits are the qualities of all excellent American immigrants. In this sense, this film transcends country, nation, time and space. It is an eternal classic. At the same time, it can be regarded as an inspirational movie.

Regrettably, so far, this excellent film has not attracted much attention, and it seems that it has not won an international prize. However, who will always use awards to measure Excellence? Moreover, this history is despised by the United States; Its director is also Japanese-American. Thanks to this director, he used this unique perspective to interpret the best qualities of human beings and brought us this film that is definitely worth seeing.