Empire of the Sun (1987)

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oh yeah
by magrebi in magrebi Blog

loved it.

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Empire of the Sun
by JimBell in JimBell Blog

is neutral about it.

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"With that much talent, that much money, that many resources, what have Spielberg and his team said with Empire of the Sun? War is tough on families? Coming of age in a prisoner of war camp is miserable? I don’t know. Maybe the movie is more focused and tries to say something about the main character, Jim. At eleven years of age, he is torn from his parents and winds up in a prison camp near Shanghai. But what is Spielberg saying about the kid? Although I’m not sure, there are tantalizing glimpses. First comes the contrast between Jim’s very privileged life in the British sector of Shanghai and his life on the street with Basie and then in prison camp. The problem here is that in the first part of the movie, we don’t really get to know Jim. Although we see a lot of him, we never look into his eyes to see him as a real person. It’s as if he is playing the role of precocious rich kid instead of being a person who h " [More]

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