Barefoot Gen
Barefoot Gen is one of the saddest movies I have ever seen, I cannot help crying when I am watching it. The story begins with a family that consist of five members, Gen, his pregnant mother Kimie, his father Daikichi, his older sister Eiko, and his little brother Shinji. People of Hiroshima were kind of surprise not being attacked by the US military just like the other major cities of Japan, they have only experienced some fail war alarts of B-29 plains that flay over their city from a time to another.
At the day of the explosion, Gen was going to school while he and one of his friends noticed a plain of the enemy, but thought it was like always - a spy mission. Suddenly, the plain allowed the bomb to leave the plain and explode. A mericle happened that Gen was standing next to a wall which prevents him from the flash of the bombing which burned every single thing in the open. After Gen woke up, he ran back to his house, and sadly the house was on fire. He and his mother who survived tried to help getting off the rest of their family out of the ruins but they couldn't. So they had to leave with their eyes full of tears, and run away from the fair on the voice of Shinji -the little brother- screaming for help.
After a while, the mother delivered the baby girl and they named her Tomoko which mean friend. Later they found a little hungry boy who look like shinji who died days ago, so the adopt the boy and welcomed him into their family. Tomoko was suffering from malnutrition because they don't have enough milk to heed her, which she died after a while of that. Everything seemed hopeless and died, and nothing can let them be optimistic and waiting for a better future. One day, while the two boys were looking around for something to help them, they heard that there won't be any grace for the coming seventy years, however, they found some wheat growing up which was a sign of survival.
Gen's father was telling him all the time to be strong and relayed on, he used to tell him that his mother would need him. Gen remembered his father's words "It is life begins in the coldest season of the year, the rain pounds it, the wind blows it, it's crushed beneath people's feet but still, the wheat spreads its roots and grow"
The movie was very emotional, and I think it is at least 80% based on facts. I think that there was a touch of happy drama added to the real story, because the characters were happy most of the time which I don't believe it was the case. Another thing, the movie was struggling to find a happy end which they did, even though I don't believe it was real. Because it would take more time for the water of the revere to be clear and for the wheat to grow back again.
The most interesting part of the movie is that they haven't blamed the US on bombing them at all. All the blames were going to the Japanese government, they have described it with stupidity and selfishness. Even when the government announced that the war is over, it was too late. The city has already gone, and thousands of thousands of people were dead. They even pictured the late respond of the government to help the survival, it took the Japanese government days to provide them aids and food.
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