The flowers of war/ Jin líng Shi san chai - a movie revisits Nanjing massacre of 1937 , sticks for crimes against humanity and humanity's WIN,

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2011)

Scores 9 out of 10 for drama, casting, direction, emotions. Movie has lots of works - Zhang Yimou attempting Hollywood style movie inspired by a novel 13 flowers of Nanjing based on true events, with massive budget with over 100 mn , multiple casts from different country, and nominated for 2011 Oscar nominated film among foreign language films, all the works justifies 2 and half hours film An American born mortician john miller (acted by Christian bale), upon arrival in Nanjing for a burial of a priest, finds himself caught between bunch of orphan students, encroached prostitutes of qin hu river (the 13 flowers) in church trying to escape Nanjing and from the bloody brutal of Japanese army. John who is at times happy go lucky, just loves to drink , drink, drink and at times shady trying to loot the money from the church, now has a new job as a priest to protect everyone in the house of Lord, from brutalities of Japanese against humanity . The drama starts with these, has all the emotions packed A great deal of humanity exhibited by Chinese and John . A Chinese soldier loses his battalion and himself for the students/flowers A Chinese father becomes traitor to save his only daughter, bunch of prostitutes trying to save the students, A Chinese boy George enacting as a prostitute And john plays a formidable role as a priest to protect the children, giving up his last chance to escape, and his newly found lovehumanity rages a war with the mighty armed and brutal minded Japanese, the movie puts Japanese to shame, something Japanese needs to regret for their brutalities of their fore fathers. Each part of this packed with emotions tears sheds on humanity and in justice to humanity  watch , cry and be proud. After the movie one could walk with hatred , I for one proud of Chinese , for exhibiting their humanity, Zhongu jiayau it is said who wants to understand the Nanking massacre should watch "City of Life and Death," directed by Lu Chuan, and the documentary "Nanking," by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman.