Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Foto Dari Jepang

Tidak ada film kartun yang lebih mengharukan dari Grave of the Fireflies. Manusia normal pasti akan terharu menyaksikan film ini. Film berdasarkan kisah nyata sang penulis Akiyuki Nosaka yang kehilangan saudara perempuannya, karena kekurangan gizi pada masa perang dunia ke dua. Judul buku nya "Hotaru no haka" ("A Grave of Fireflies") yang ditulis pada tahun 1967.

Dan dalam perang banyak yang kita korbankan, terutama keluarga. Dan anak-anak lah yang menjadi korban sesungguhnya.

Demikian juga foto, dibawah ini. Narasi dari photograpernya, Joe O'Donnell membuat kita semakin sedih jika mengingat dampak yang ditimbulkan dari sebuah peperangan. Sebuah gambar mewakili ribuan kata-kata, berikut narasi nya:

“I saw a boy about ten years old walking by. He was carrying a baby on his back. In those days in Japan, we often saw children playing with their little brothers or sisters on their backs, but this boy was clearly different. I could see that he had come to this place for a serious reason. He was wearing no shoes. His face was hard. The little head was tipped back as if the baby were fast asleep. The boy stood there for five or ten minutes.”


“The men in white masks walked over to him and quietly began to take off the rope that was holding the baby. That is when I saw that the baby was already dead. The men held the body by the hands and feet and placed it on the fire. The boy stood there straight without moving, watching the flames. He was biting his lower lip so hard that it shone with blood. The flame burned low like the sun going down. The boy turned around and walked silently away.”








This story looks like the real-life “Grave of the Fireflies“, a Japanese movie from 1988. A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister’s struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. It’s a really powerful movie and highly recommended to watch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/

Sumber: 
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/japanese-boy-standing-attention-brought-dead-younger-brother-cremation-pyre-1945/

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