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"That must be Christian Bale."

After Mimi sat down, she was very dishonest. She turned her head around and looked around. She saw a foreigner who looked very familiar. She took Liu Sisi's arm and motioned for him to take a look.

Liu Sisi was helpless. She was obviously one year younger than Mimi. Why did she always feel that Mimi was like a child, but she was an adult? She followed her gaze and looked over.

A foreign man who is not too tall, no more than 1.8 meters, with a tall nose, a beard, wearing a black shirt and jeans, with a decadent look.

"It's him. I've seen the stills of this film [Thirteen Beauties of the Qinhuai River], and he is the leading actor Christian Bale."

Mimi looked at the foreign man carefully, shook her head, and whispered in Sisi's ear:

"To be honest, I don't really understand Director Zhang's thoughts."

"This is an anti-war film, an anti-Japanese film. Why is the male protagonist a foreigner?"

"This is history, not science fiction, future, and other types of movies. The presence of foreigners in such movies is a bit confusing."

Liu Sisi looked around and found no one, so she felt relieved. She couldn't help but glance at Mimi and whispered:

"Speak less, pay attention to the impact, and be listened to. Then it will not be your responsibility alone, and it will also make things difficult for Qin Dong and the Great Qin Empire Company."

Mimi quickly looked around and felt relieved when no one was approaching:

"Okay, I get it, I'm really curious too."

Liu Sisi shook her head:

"What are you curious about? It will start in a while. You will know after watching the movie, right? Just wait a moment."

In fact, Sisi herself is also very curious. It is not unusual for a foreigner to appear in such an anti-Japanese film. What is strange is that the foreigner is the male protagonist, which makes people curious about what the movie is about.

...

The lights in the theater went out at some point, and the lights on the big screen came on.

All the artists, company leaders, reporters, and some film critics who were working below were silent and quiet, waiting for the movie feast to begin.

This is the first domestic film costing one billion yuan.

[Thirteen Beauties of Qinhuai River] Official screening:

In 1937, the Japanese army invaded southern Beijing. During the war, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties was reduced to ruins, and many Chinese soldiers and civilians were trapped in the city.

The remnants of a dozen-strong National Army moral training team, under the command of their commander, Instructor Li, rescued a group of female students from a missionary school from the Japanese army. Instructor Li and others had thus lost the chance to leave the city.

Shujuan and other students who survived the accident returned to Winchester Church, and with them came the American John Miller who was hired to collect the priest's body from afar.

At this time, in Jingnan City, fleeing people flocked into safe areas and churches to seek shelter. Fourteen prostitutes forced their way into the church to take refuge. Among them, Yu Mo, who was proficient in English, hoped to use John's identity to provide more protection for the group.

The walls of the church cannot stop the Japanese army. People in the church will face the choice of life or death.

Female students from the church, some promiscuous women, soldiers and wounded soldiers, and American John, they all faced a life and death catastrophe together, and developed all kinds of wonderful emotions.

However, the church is not an eternal pure land. Soon the Japanese troops rushed into the church and found the female students. The soldiers who resisted desperately shot to save the female students at the critical moment and died heroically.

Later, the Japanese army forced female students to perform for the Japanese soldiers at the celebration party.

Because the female students did not want to be humiliated by the Japanese army, they prepared to commit collective suicide, but were saved by Yu Mo.

In the end, these 13 prostitutes, who were usually regarded as lowly, inspired their chivalrous spirit in front of the invaders' dehumanizing butcher's knife. They wore choir robes and carried scissors to replace the female students in the church and go to a tragic event.

of death.

...

At the end of the film, there is an opera:

I have a love story, let me sing it to you!

All gentlemen, be still and be still!

Let me come and sing Qin Huai Jing!

Tell me carefully and sing it for everyone to hear!

The Qinhuai River flows slowly, and it has lasted until now!

The beauty of Jiangnan and the elegance of Jinling!

Looking into the garden, the hall is vast and deep!

Bailuzhou, with its endless water, is a paradise!!!

...

"Woooo..."

I don’t know when, but from time to time, there was a low voice crying in the theater.

At this moment, the experiences of the Chinese people and the blood-drenched history appeared before our eyes once again, as if they were repeating themselves.

Most of the women who have always been sentimental cried very sadly, as if they were weeping for the fate of the famous prostitutes in the Qinhuai River who died generously in place of the female students, and they seemed to be weeping for the suffering that their ancestors had experienced.

Many men also shed tears while watching it. Men don’t shed tears even if they bleed, but they are not yet sad.

At this moment, looking at the choices made by those women, and watching the tragic deaths of the countrymen one after another, the anger that wanted to pick up a gun and kill all the invaders burst out of my chest.

The movie ended, but people in the theater didn't respond for a long time, as if they were still immersed in sadness.

....

In the early hours of that night, a famous film critic stayed up late to publish an article about his feelings after watching the movie:

"Looking at [The Thirteen Beauties of the Qinhuai River], there is a fire in the chest that burns again, and there are tears that brew in the eyes."

"Qin Huaijing in student clothes and Qin Huaijing in cheongsam, one behind the other, are like two worlds and two destinies.

It represents a group of female students and a group of brothel girls. They have different fates, but they are connected, but in the end they are separated again.

Destiny seems to be the most difficult hurdle for women to overcome.

A group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old female students are protected by national soldiers who risk their lives to protect them, and their father is willing to be a traitor to protect them. If they can force a "second-rate man" to pretend to be a priest to stand up and protect them, even the Japanese military officer will feel pity for them.

So the prostitutes went to serve the Japanese soldiers on behalf of the female students. When Yu Mo first proposed this arrangement, I thought in my evil heart that this was a reasonable and reasonable decision, "This is the right thing for them to do."

And it wasn't until the pipa played, and the "female students" in blue clothes who had finished dressing were lined up, and Wu Nong's soft-spoken song "Qinhuai Scene" came on, that I suddenly realized that replacing them with female students

What a cruel decision it was to send it to the Japanese.

Only then did I understand why John was struggling with "girls or women?"

The courage to live is not difficult to possess, but the courage to die is truly heart-wrenching and admirable.

Yu Mo, who closed his eyes and sat in the middle with his pipa in his arms, and a dozen other girls with their orchid jade fingers, eloquently said, "I have a love, and I will sing it to all the gentlemen."

The more I think about such an ending, the more distressed I become. No one would be able to do this unless they were forced into a dead end, and she was a famous prostitute in Qinhuai and was proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

They looked fresh and fresh with their hair cut short. I really thought, classmate John, how could you bear it? If it were me, I might really take Yumo away and fly away.

Write a little poem and send it to the thirteen beauties.

A gentleman also cherishes his life

Women are affectionate

A businesswoman knows that her country hates her

The beautiful scenery of Qinhuai.

"Thank you to the ancestors who fought life and death, and thank Director Zhang for the historical review."