War is evil, defaming the human race

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2019)

The film shows the events of 1937 in Nanking without embellishment and very frankly. While watching you feel all the hopelessness and realism of the Sino-Japanese war. The war kills a person in a person - such a thought flies by while watching a movie; but still there are people ready to come to the rescue as Christian Bale's character. And those 12 women from Nanking really turned out to be wonderful flowers that blossomed in the midst of the war.
I am a big fan of Hollywood war films, but this picture by the Chinese director Zhang Yimou has eclipsed many of them with its realism, colorfulness and honesty.