Talk:Yan Geling
What do you think of "The Flower of War" written by Yan Geling?
- Judy's reading review 2016.6.9
The same name film directed by Zhang Yimou did attract large numbers of audience,but it can not prove "The Flower of War" is a good work.
I think this novel consumes The Nanjing Massacre. It makes use of the theme of this disaster and add many attracting elements, such as war, rape, hooker, religion, etc. All plots at the service of these stunts and all characters serve the plots, so character may change casually if the plot has necessary. Zhao Yumo is so all-around that seems out of real. At the same time, when people read the novel with a attitude of bearing history in mind, they are already kidnapped by the novel to leave anger and tear, readers are consumed.
In addition, this novel advocates that every one is equal in front of the war, we all are the victims. However, I felt every one is not equal in the book.It seems that only Yumo and her sieters disguised as students to sacrifice their leaves, can they complete the purify of their “dirty” soul and became the women with great moral virtue.How ridiculous! If the war has to sacrifice some people to rescue some people, it should not to emphasize the lowness of the sacrificial lambs. Yumo and her sisters were not born to should be sacrificed. Yan Geling has a sense of superior and contempt attitude to people who has special occupation in her potential consciousness, which chills my heart.
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