Road to Heaven, starring Cate Blanchett.
English name: Paradise Road
Chinese name: Paradise Road | Live on the Line
Director: (Bruce Beresford) < /p>
Starring: (Glenn Close) (Frances McDormand) (Pauline Collins) (Cate Blanchett) (Jennifer Ehle) (Julianna Margulies)
Released: April 11, 1997
One night in 1942, Australian and British soldiers stationed in Singapore were holding a A grand dance where everyone danced to wonderful music and sat together chatting leisurely. At this moment, a loud bang from an artillery shell broke the noisy atmosphere, and suddenly there was silence. War is coming!
The Australian captain immediately issued an emergency order, and all women and children retreated, and the soldiers prepared to fight. After a hasty farewell, the women and children boarded the ship for home. The ship sailed carefully on the sea, and the people on the ship did not realize the seriousness of the matter until Japanese fighter jets suddenly appeared in the sky and violently bombed them, forcing them to abandon the ship and jump into the water to find a way out.
The night passed. After a night of wandering, some survivors came to a small island. They were captured by the Japanese army on the island and taken to a concentration camp. There were many women and children in the concentration camp. They came from different countries, but suffered the same fate.
In the concentration camps they endured inhuman treatment: the environment in the concentration camps was very poor, and many people were infected with malaria and other diseases. One day, an old lady fell ill and was dying. In order to treat the old lady, a female prisoner named Wei Ying took the risk to exchange her belongings with people outside at the wire fence of the concentration camp late at night when the Japanese army's precautions were low. Some drugs were discovered by the Japanese army and burned alive. The Japanese army did not provide them with sufficient daily necessities. Once, the female prisoners got into a fight over a small piece of soap while taking a bath. Here women and children often go hungry, have to work like slaves, and are cut off from all contact with the outside world. All this made people despair about life and have no hope for the future. Many people died in despair.
Adelia, an Englishman who was trained at the Royal Academy of Music, saw people gradually degenerating and came up with the idea of ??forming a choir. With her efforts, they sang many childish songs. Classical music added fun to their boring lives, found their own value, and gave the nearly desperate prisoners a desire for life.
In 1945, the war ended, the Japanese army withdrew from the concentration camp, and the female prisoners regained their freedom. They hugged each other and cheered, and under the command of Adelia, they sang a beautiful and beautiful song again. melody.
Wonderful viewpoint:
This film is Cate Blanchett’s screen debut. It is a story about female prisoners in Japanese concentration camps during World War II. The film reflects women’s Courage, friendship and strength.