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The Flowers of War [Blu-ray]

Christian Bale (Actor), Ni Ni (Actor), Yimou Zhang (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Romantic Comedy
Format	Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound
Contributor	Christian Bale, Xinyi Zhang, Zhang Weiping, Ni Ni, Paul Schneider, Yimou Zhang
Language	English
Runtime	2 hours and 22 minutes

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In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.88 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ Relay time: 142min
Director ‏ : ‎ Yimou Zhang
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 22 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ July 10, 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Paul Schneider, Xinyi Zhang
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, Cantonese
Producers ‏ : ‎ Zhang Weiping
Studio ‏ : ‎ Lionsgate
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007WXUUWQ
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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C. Arredondo

WOW. Great movie. Epic. A beautiful tragedy. NOT for kids or the queasy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2018

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NO SPOILERS REVIEW.

5 Stars.

This film is an exercise in contrasts and extremes.
It's almost hard to process because it shows some of the most unthinkable evils and atrocities being committed and then in the very midst of that context you see the core qualities of humanity and human-connection.
It's like in the midst of the most inhumane, a story of unlikely human connections, friendships and ultimately some form of care and/or love.

I say again, this is not a viewing for the faint-of-heart or for any casual affair either. This is, especially at times, a REALLY intense movie. And there are some scenes that are almost unbearably, unimaginably profane and evil that could honestly be traumatic for some (for example, seeing a woman's murdered-body [after being gang-raped] laying-lifeless with a giant spear stabbed through her vagina as if she were meat on a shishkabob; or better yet seeing adult men-soldiers chasing little school-girls around to pin them down to rape them like it was a game and/or pushing them over balconies to their death when they try to escape). Yea, there's some pretty brutal, dementedly twisted scenes. Seriously.
So.....
Now that you know that...

The story is really about a set of unlikely or mismatched characters that end up being forced by the circumstances of war more or less to find refuge, solace and practical-survival in each other. But out of this strange and eclectic set of characters evolves some very interesting friendships and connections. And even perhaps on some level, love.

There is definitely something beautiful about the connections these people find with each other and the evolution those connections take over the course of a time in the midst of the surrounding war they are embedded in... but make no mistake, it's not a frictionless evolution, nor begins from a morally pure or altruistic origin. Which makes it all the more interesting and powerful when true selfless love/care begins to germinate and take shape between these humans.

This movie is a long movie for sure, not your average length movie. It is an epic. There are action battle/war scenes. And there is plenty of drama (mostly drama). It is very well done. The action scenes are done well. Everything else is done well also. The acting is on point. The sets are more than believable as well as costumes etc etc. This is not a low-budget film. Everything seems real and believable as if you were in that time period. There are no criticisms I have from a film-making/directing standpoint. It's a masterpiece drama done very well in about every respect that I can tell.

This is a solid story (based on real events) well designed and well told. It is inspiring and beautiful. It is utterly tragic and heartbreaking. It is shockingly, appallingly evil. It is inspiringly courageous and touchingly heartwarming.

Like I said, this film is an exercise in contrasts/extremes.

This is a epic-tragedy story and yet a story of survival, friendship and sacrificial-love.

PS I didn't know about the historical context here, so it is also informative to some non WWII drama that happened in China that was on a scale apparently significant to human-history. So something worth knowing about. Anyways, that is worth mentioning that it is an interesting historical setting that for me was unfamiliar. I inadvertently learned something about 20th century history in the East.

Also, sidneote, if your eyeballs don't begin to produce tears at any point in this movie, you might cut your skin open to look inside your body like Arnold did because you're probably a T2000 or some other kind of robot-machine. But definitely not human.

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War

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2022

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Maureen Jan

Good But Not Great War Film

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 10, 2012

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Couldn't sleep, had to stay up past 1:30am to quickly share a frank and honest, fair review of

I returned home after midnight, only about 10 seated in a small cinema. I kept analysing the film during taxi ride home.

Flowers Of War

Having watched many other war-themed films, and having read reviews that the film is bloody and violent, I can confirm it certainly is. Audiences, be warned, there are harrowing scenes depicting violence especially against young women, and scenes of young girls being forced, dragged by their hair, screaming, kicking, clothes ripped ..taken to be raped by soldiers. *

If you can't accept such scenes, then please do not see this film.

And for the Japanese audience, as this film is likely banned from showing in cinemas, anyone that is curious to watch, such as my friends Miki-san and Shin-san, if you are able to get a video and watch this film in Tokyo, please be further warned.. If you expected even one redeeming character amongst the Japanese in this film, there is none. *Clearly the Japanese soldiers are the demonized enemy here. Therefore, watch only if you have an open mind.*

Overall, it was a good film, to be fair, it was not a great film. I would give it a 6.5 to 7 of 10. And that is if you do not mind blood, gore and scenes of sexual violence.

The good.
Gorgeous lush cinetography.
Realistic sets and
Good sound editing such as machine gun bullets whizzing by, hitting through helmets.
Realistic grey morbid streets scenes full of death and destruction.
The beautiful old church.
Good job on costumes, hair, makeup.
A few sprinkle of humour near beginning of film to balance the dark nature.
The churchbboy caretaker named George.
Mo's exquisite complexion.

Flaws
About 10 -15 minutes in middle of film, the story that was flowing along fluidly and convincingly, suddenly faltered to a record screeching halt. The part of the story where two courtesans from their party, escaped from the church to return to the brothel to retreive the pipa strings for their musical instrument. That was the most contrived and unbelievable part of the film, that distracted the audience, making us the viewer ask 'what the heck?'

I only wish the director removed that part, or replaced it with something more believable to tighten up the plot, to make the film more compelling.

That together with a street scene of John running into a westerner named Terry, a friend trying to escape out of war-zone of Nanjing, and John asking if he'd seen the two women. This part was another unnecessary distraction.

I must share, these two tedious scenes took up at least 10-15 minutes of film, and was not very well acted either.

Love Scene
Now, I do not know if certain sex scenes were cut, it seemed there wasn't enough of the lovemaking scene between John and courtesanYu Mo. I would have liked that part expanded to show the tender love and romance between hero and heroine.

Memorable Scenes
There are three very memorable scenes, first is when the Japanese raid the church, and John's sense of courage and heroism is brought to fore when he try to stop the soldiers from further harming the girls.

The second is when the girls decide to act on their plan to escape the church. And thus, stop further violence against them.

And of course, the ending scene, which was very touching.

Christian Bale (Batman, The Dark Knight)acting the part as an American mortician John Miller shows his ability to morph from a selfish shallow drunken opportunist to redeem himself as a hero, as the film's story unfolds to reveal him becoming a caring, kind and gentle soul.

Bale's character John, does something heroic in the end, I won't share further, you need to watch the movie.

Some audiences may have had to take out tissues through watching the film, although my heart is hardened to such retchedly harrowing war films, nothing made me weep as much as the Cambodian war film The Killing Fields.*

For Flowers Of War, I did have a napkin handy to dry my face.

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piggly wiggly

A MUST SEE MOVIE!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 2, 2015

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OMG!! This is truly one of the most emotional films I have ever seen, from start to finish you will be glued to your tv set, Christian Bale is amazing in his role and makes you ask yourself what would you do if you were in his shoes.An amazing story line well acted and very powerful scenes you will most certainly need your tissues at the ready, from start to finish you will be so moved that this film will stay with you for a long long time absolutely brilliant movie makes you realise how precious life really is!!

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Freddie M

A moving movie.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 26, 2018

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An excellent performance by Christian Bale in a heart rending, emotional and upsetting movie. Whilst it is based on the "Rape of Nanking" the story is more of human decency in the face of adversity rather than focusing on the undoubted horror of this piece of dreadful history.The performances from the Asian actors was very good and despite the sub-titles, in many ways this maintained the realism and did not detract at all from the story which was movingly portrayed. A very good movie that should, I believe, have received far more exposure than it did.

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Helena A.

Strong and beautiful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 19, 2017

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This is a very strong filme that reminds us that if war can bring out the worst of mankind it will also can bring out the very best making the most unlikely people into true heroes. A beautiful film not to be missed. Pitty english subtitles do not function on english language as sound is sometimes not very good.

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Mr. S. J. Charnick

Tugs on Your Emotions

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 24, 2017

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This Film is largely unheard of, I only watched this by hear say. Glad I did as it's one of those films that draws you in and Tugs on your emotions. This film has not been promoted or highlighted enough 👍👍

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Roger

Good, but not great.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 5, 2018

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I am a devoted admirer of the work of director Zhang Yimou, so naturally I hurried to see this one. Alas, this is not his finest moment, mainly due to the sometimes limping screenplay and attention to details that do not contribute to the film. But if you can come at peace with the pace of the film, you may well like it.

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