People in the West often think Socialism and multiculturalism go hand-in-hand. In reality, most socialist countries in the past and today are actually ethnostates.
Oh how could i forget the famous ethnostates of the USSR and Cuba
People in the West often think Socialism and multiculturalism go hand-in-hand. In reality, most socialist countries in the past and today are actually ethnostates.
Oh how could i forget the famous ethnostates of the USSR and Cuba
From my experience there’s always been an anti-Japanese “season” around the summer when all the WWII films and Sino-Japanese war films come out. It’s probably being pushed especially hard now since it’s a round number anniversary and likely the last significant one where any actual participants are still alive. Also, Japanese fascists are making significant gains.
I use bilibili as a gauge for brainworm concentrations in Chinese social media and there has definitely been an increase in militaristic sentiments. In any case it’s very different from the much more “let’s all hold hands and sing kumbaya”-type vibes of circa 2010.
It is mildly amusing that there is a segment of Chinese nationalists that basically believe the exact same things as the average Fox News-addled American boomer about woke liberals destroying America by legalizing crime and importing violent migrants and opening free crack distribution centers, except they think it’s good that it’s happening. Just last week I watched a video on bilibili where the guy said San Diego residents are forced to watch millions of migrants invade America by lining up at the border where CBP assigns them free luxury mansions no questions asked if they lie about being abused. Anyway the conclusion of the video was that America is becoming the Qing dynasty because of the moral decay caused by marijuana legalization
One example is the Unit 731 movie that is coming out this month. The film has been in production since 2017 and wrapped filming back in 2022 but was suspended by the censorship bureau. Lots of wild theories on the internet about why it was not allowed to be released.
However, it is finally coming out this year, which feels coordinated to a certain extent together with the Nanjing Massacre film. Whatever the reasons, the government deems it appropriate to now show the films.
By the way, I don’t think there is anything wrong with showing Japanese atrocities and reminding people of what it felt like to be a country under threat by foreign imperialism. However when you combine this with the other recent events, it feels like a push towards amplifying nationalist propaganda.
Taking 5 years to film a movie is extreme unless you’re making something like the Soviet War and Peace, but I guess you have to exclude 2020-21 so it practically would only be 3 years or so. 3 years of filming is still on the long side though, sounds like it was in development hell.
But I have to wonder, surely the script was reviewed and approved before they went into production, right? I can’t imagine a company going through the expense of making a period film about a sensitive topic unless they knew it was approved.
Were they reapplying for releasing it every year or did the government just decide to summon it back from exile for the 80th anniversary?
Whatever the reason was that it didn’t get released in 2022 evidently no longer concerns the government.
Nationalist sentiment has been on the rise globally in recent years. So the thinking may be that if you’re not making nationalist propaganda efforts then you’re essentially letting foreign media write your history for you. This was the thinking behind the commissioning of Soviet WWII films in the 1960s - the West was dominating the WWII period film genre and was basically erasing the role the USSR played in the war.