"Bacterial Warfare" is a word we don't want to face. People suffering caused by bacterial viruses is hotter, more intense and more profound than that of being killed directly.? The infamous Japanese Army Unit 731, based in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, is the largest bacterial weapons research laboratory and purgatory in the world.
Fog covers Changde city (in Hunan Province) on Tuesday, November 4, 1941.
In the early hours of the morning, the hasty air raid alarm woke up the sleeping Changde people, who had been accustomed to the air raid at 9am since 1938, but this time they were confused about this air raid.
As usual, they were ready to flee to the countryside of Changde, and found that the plane did not drop any bombs, but instead of wheat, millet, sorghum, rags and other debris all the way around the city. What they didn't know was that all these items were covered with Japanese-made plague. Germ warfare covering the land of Changde.
An early photograph of the crew of Japanese Unit 731 invaded Changde on Nov. 4, 1941.
Li Youshen lived in the countryside of Changde. At midnight on May 8, Li came back from the city and became ill, and then died after two days.? After arranged Li's funeral, people who had been contacted with Li fell one by one. Those who came to take care of the sick people or visited them were all spread the plague to others… From Li, a total of 17 people in this small and peaceful village died of the plague.
Li's village was sparsely populated, with only a few households. When the city's epidemic prevention team arrived at Li village, there was no one could collect the corpses in the small village.
According to official statistics,? Changde Germ Warfare killed 7,643 civilians, and tens of thousands of people suffering owning to the bacterial war.
Movie Dawning tells a story of victim Xia Jiajun. From the perspective of life, showing the philosophy of love, it involves the deepest love and compassion of the audience. When something becomes an obstacle to be overcome, we would pay a cost for it that we have never imagined.
War is the heaviest and most profound chapter in the history of mankind. It is recorded in blood? by countless people. The pain of war is long and hard to heal, and today we have never stopped telling and reflecting on the history of war.
In the movie, little Xia Jiajun was separated from his family during the war and then he cames to the reeducation center. He experienced the tragic situation that his friends had been left one after another due to the plague virus, but he also spent a golden childhood in the "children's Noah's ark" : sharing food, catching fish, putting river lamp etc, these were his wonderful memories of his life during the reeducation center.
But in reality, little Xia Jiajun walked alone to the reeducation center, on the way to the center,? jets flying overhead, bomb constantly falling, he and the fastest-running children hid in caves. When he came out, he saw dismembered corpses everywhere, and the air was full of the smell of smoke and blood, the terrible memory never go away.
In 1941, under the siege of artillery attack and bacteria suffering, Changde was like a hell.
At the end of the film, Xia Jiajun who is an old man now calmly facing the camera and recalled, "before entering the reeducation center, I used to hide in the cave. When I came out from cave, I saw blood on the ground, dismembered corpses around the outside cave, the buzzing and creepy sound of the plane always in my mind... "
"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Motherland is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
By John Donne（1572－1631）
"細(xì)菌戰(zhàn)” 是我們不愿面對的詞匯，刺痛著我們的心。比起被直接屠殺死，細(xì)菌病毒給人們帶來的痛苦更熾烈、更煎熬也更深遠(yuǎn)。臭名昭著的侵華日軍731部隊，設(shè)立于黑龍江省哈爾濱，是世界歷史上規(guī)模最大的細(xì)菌武器研究實(shí)驗(yàn)室和煉獄。
1941年11月4日，星期二，大霧籠罩著洞庭湖和常德市。
凌晨，急促的空襲警報驚醒了睡夢中的常德人，從1938年開始，常德人已經(jīng)習(xí)慣了上午9點(diǎn)才會開始空襲的節(jié)奏，但對于這次的空襲，他們感到一頭霧水。
他們一如既往的準(zhǔn)備逃往鄉(xiāng)下，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)飛機(jī)并沒有投下任何炸彈，取而代之的是飛機(jī)在城區(qū)上方，一路投下麥粒、谷子、高粱、爛布條等雜物。他們不知道，這些雜物上布滿了日軍制造的鼠疫，細(xì)菌戰(zhàn)籠罩在常德的土地。
1941年11月4日清晨侵華日軍第731部隊在常德投撒鼠疫細(xì)菌的機(jī)組人員在飛機(jī)旁邊的合影。
李佑生一家人在常德的鄉(xiāng)下，5月8號半夜，李從常德城里回來一病不起，兩天后，他離開了人世。給李安排葬禮后，和李有過接觸的人都接二連三地倒下，前來照顧的、探望的、幫忙的，又將鼠疫傳染給其他人，從李開始，這個平靜的小村落一共17人因感染鼠疫而逝世。
當(dāng)年的李家村人煙稀少，僅有十幾戶人家，等到城里的防疫隊員趕到時，村里已經(jīng)沒有人收尸了。
官方的統(tǒng)計里，常德細(xì)菌戰(zhàn)，一共有7643名無辜同胞喪生，而因細(xì)菌戰(zhàn)遭受苦難的人數(shù)高達(dá)數(shù)萬人。
電影通過真實(shí)人物夏家俊的故事，從生命的角度，透射出簡單的哲理, 陪伴的長情。它牽扯到觀眾內(nèi)心最深處的愛和同情，當(dāng)有些東西成為障礙需要去跨越的時候，我們會為它付出未曾想象過的代價。
戰(zhàn)爭，是人類歷史長河中最沉重且深刻的一章，是無數(shù)人用鮮血記載的。戰(zhàn)爭帶來的痛苦久久難以愈合，而今天的我們對戰(zhàn)爭史的講述和反思一直沒有停止過。
電影里，夏家俊在戰(zhàn)亂中和家人分離，輾轉(zhuǎn)來到教養(yǎng)院。在這里，他經(jīng)歷了朋友們因感染鼠疫病毒而相繼離去的悲慘場面，但他也在這個“兒童諾亞方舟”里度過了一段金色童年：分享食物，河邊捉魚，琴聲飛揚(yáng)，雨中陪伴，放河燈，這些都是他在教養(yǎng)院生活中的美好記憶；
但現(xiàn)實(shí)中，夏家俊孤身一人前往教養(yǎng)院，在途中，他經(jīng)歷著日軍的轟炸，頭頂上空的飛機(jī)轟鳴，炸彈不斷地往下掉，他和跑得最快的孩子們躲在山洞里，出來時他看見洞口周圍已是殘肢遍布 ，到處都是血，空氣中布滿了硝煙味和血腥味兒，這個記憶在腦海中一直消散不去。
1941年，在炮火與細(xì)菌的圍攻下，常德猶如人間地獄。
影片的最后，夏家俊老人面對鏡頭平靜的回憶:? “沒進(jìn)教養(yǎng)院之前，我經(jīng)常躲在山洞里，出來我就看到大街上有血，洞口周圍殘肢遍布 ，腦海里都是飛機(jī)嗡嗡嗡，毛骨悚然的聲音……”
沒有人是自成一體、與世隔絕的孤島,
每一個人都是廣袤大陸的一部份.
如果海浪沖掉了一塊巖石,
歐洲就減少.
如同一個海岬失掉一角,
如同你的朋友或者你自己的領(lǐng)地失掉一塊.
每個人的死亡都是我的哀傷,
因?yàn)槲沂侨祟惖囊粏T.
所以,不要問喪鐘為誰而鳴,
喪鐘你而鳴!
約翰·多恩John Donne（1572 - 1631）
