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The Flowers of War (2011)
★ 7.4 · 897 ratings on TMDB
Fighting for freedom.
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
DirectorZhang Yimou
The emergence reading
The Flowers of War keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceCN
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
