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By jingo, they're mad![1]

I guess decades of lopsided education have blurred the line between human decency and unbounded heroism. For most people, if they can refrain from committing evil when evil is all around them, that's good enough for them. Lu Chuan's dramatization of the rape of Nanking, called City of Life and Death, is a case in point. While he did portray Chinese resistance and heroism in maintaining a refugee camp, many viewers were dismayed that he showed Chinese soldiers and civilians facing the massacre without putting up a fight. Moreover, they were angry that one Japanese soldier was depicted as having a modicum of human compassion, which eventually resulted in his redemption.

By the same logic, Schindler's List would have been a glorification of Nazism because Schindler was a German and a Nazi member and it was he who saved so many Jews. That would have turned Spielberg into a Nazi whitewasher in the least. Maybe he is the son of a Nazi officer who fled Germany and camouflaged himself as a Jew. (Seriously, this is the line of thinking of quite a few youths here.)

I'm not saying Lu's film is perfect. It has many faults. But the graphic depiction of violence against Chinese people is a strong indictment of Japanese militarism. Lu also let the Chinese characters share much of the rescue efforts originally conducted by a small group of Western expatriates. But in the eyes of the nationalist "purists" that's not good enough. They probably want a cartoonish version of the Japanese soldiers, the kind popular in 1950s war movies. But wouldn't it be more insulting if hundreds of thousands of Chinese were brutally slaughtered by an army of buffoons?