My mom used to sing this song to me as a baby, and I love this film so much. It's so horrible that his friend dies in the end, right before they're released. :-(
War so der vergebliche Versuch durch das zerbröckelnde japanische Reich, die zionistischen Verbündeten zu besiegen und die Invasion der hässlichen, schwarzen Horden zu verhindern, wer die Frauen jeder Nation beschmutzen machen!
No need to go into it so deeply mate. Best to forgive rather than keep that hatred locked up. Life is too short. And it is a beutiful song and a good movie.
A wonderful, underrated film, imo. The young Christian Bale was magnificent. The song, a Welsh lullaby, 'Suo Gan,' was beautifully sung by one of the top English boy sopranos of the time, James Rainbird. I've often wondered if that song was chosen as the film's theme because the Welsh tune sounds something like a Chinese mode; and also, I suppose, because it is an innocent sound, reflective of the main character's boyhood.
You can mention Jaws or Jurassic Park or the Indiana Jones movies, and people know what you're talking about. This movie is soooooo much more a true cinematic experience, so artfully made, and you just don't hear about it.
History lesson daygo,WWII ..our enemies were the GErmans,Italians ,and Japanese.the Germans had to defend Italy,mostly because the Italian army folded up.you put up less odf a fight against us than France did against Germany.Learn history,learn how to fight,and take off that faggy little hat.Did we,or did we not beat you guys in the war?and dont call me a fucking idiot until you learn what youre talking about.Speckalovatcha.
ahh,go fuck yourself.the whole world said this about the romans once as well.oh,nice fighting during WWII as well.were you in a race with France to see who could surrender the fastest?
This song and movie broke my heart. I can't believe some of the ignorant comments made by You tube posters. Oh wait...yes I can. But regardless, they don't affect the brilliance of the film.
If you haven't seen the movie, you can't really appreciate allyou see in this clip. Jim has a tremendous admiration for planes and pilots, even his captors'. And only Spielberg could pull off having him salute and sing for the kamikaze pilots without our losing our affection for him.
Are they, probably that was from the mouth of a seven year's old boy in the novel, and he actually changed his point of view at the end. From Dec13, 1937, from the Japanese soldiers rushed into the old capital of Republic of China in Naking, in 1 month, at least 300 thousand people were killed, most of them killed in sorts of competition of killing, 10 thousands of women were raped and finally killed, incl. some not even reached to 18 and old women. Japanese are the real evils on the earth.
You shouldn't say it like that. What's past is past, it's not good for anyone to hold grudges.
One could say the same about the Americans, British, French, Russians, Chinese, practically every country for the horrible acts that have taken place in the past.
We are human beings, so that means we would make mistakes, but definitely on the certain of limit. In China we always compare how German and Japanese treat the war, both of them made big massacre, but nowadays German keep all the concentration camps and educate their children not to step into the same mistake, but Japanese do the oppsite.
I am sorry to say that, but through my japanese american friends, hardly you find japanese admit they are wrong, they all think they are nice and right, so that's why japanese only have less then 1% of the Christian population. And of course, hardly they would say they did the wrong thing during the war, havent seen them made official apologize yet. I dont want to argue with you, but that is the truth, please dont reply me.
I am going to reply to you, because that's the freedom of discussion.
The Japanese are proud people, that's a given but I hardly see anything wrong in that. I don't understand what Christian population has anything to do with it though, it's not unlike other Asian countries.
The Japanese Government HAS issued official apologies in the past for it's actions during WWII. To my ears it sounds like stubborn-ace on your part, not wanting to forgive instead.
some time in history the irish and brits came from the same people. what do you think? the irish just magically appeared on that little island next to england?
but the germanics split off from the celts culturally a while before meeting again on the british mainland ;)...india is the root of the two believed..i am not sure myself
One thing that I've learned from watching Spielberg movies is that everything he presents to the viewer is there for a reason. He doesn't add content for no reason, anything that is in his movies is there to deepen and strengthen the plot, or to give the viewer more of an understanding of it, and this is shown through the irony of the song Suo Gan, which people below me have described.
The best bit for me in this brilliant film is when , he's in the green house waitng for his parents to come. then when he finally embraces his mother he shuts his eyes!!
Sure it was one of his best. I've always thought that he deserved to have won the Academy Award for this amazingly brilliant and unbelievable performance!!!
Yes, it's true, he was given this award by the NRB but I ment an Academy Award (Oscar)
In my opinion he deserved the highest awards for this astonishing and breathtaking performance. I think an actor is an actor, no matter how old he is... and maybe this special awards are created to avoid adult actors' jealousy if competing with a child or a teen!
You're the only other person I've seen who understood the irony in the use of this song (Suo Gan) in the movie. The song (it's in Welsh) is about a child being safe and protected in his mother's arms. The boy in the movie, however, spent the war in a Japanese POW camp surviving by his wits without his parents' protection.
That's interesting. I never thought that choosing this song had any significance other than it was a beautiful introduction to what is really a horror story which ends with an emotional reunion with the boy's parents. How I loved those final scenes. It was a great movie. There seems to be controversy about who sang Suo Gan for the movie. Who was it, Evan? Do You know? It sounds to me like Aled Jones.
It matches the contrast in Jim/Christian Bale's experience in the war. He's in a nightmare, but he flourishes. He finds peace in his love for flying and fraternity with the japanese pilots, he totally transcends the storm around him.
When he sang the song at the beginning, he was in the lap of comfort, and could hardly keep from yawning let alone recognize the beauty of it the song.
He finds a more peaceful consciousness in eye of the turbulence.. kind of like being rocked to tranquilitysleep?
He admires the Japanese pilots. Not sure he's on the side of Japan. Boys admire grown men, especially if they have cool weapons and blow thing's up. :-)
"They like us because we blow shit up" - Generation Kill
Its not that simple, he admirss their bravery and shares a love of flying. Hes living in the war and overwhelmed by it. He's just surfing on a wave sort of, transfixed by the power of the moment he's in. Its only later that he's sort of snapped back to reality and realizes he's suffered while surviving the war.
The airplanes.. even though they are "enemies," they share a love of flying that transcends everything else. Its a weapon & they're soldiers. That peace & universality transcends war.
Great scene from a great movie! It's incredible to realize too that the young actor here is Christian Bale. I mean, who knew that he would go on to be The Dark Knight?
Oh i know! He is my favorite actor and i just couldn't believe it when i found out that he was in this as a child! I find it funny when ppl say they dont like Christian's acting and then say how great the kid in this movie is haha! Cracks me up!
Quando la musica , per sua natura tanto dolce e soave, viene sfiorata dalla potenza di Dio , come accade nella musica sacra, allora si trasforma nel piu grande veicolo di grazia e bellezza!
Not John Williams of course (nor even Christian Bale singing it) but for me the saddest, most beautiful song in any film I have ever seen. I watch this film every time its on just for this.
I wasn't questioning i was making a point! I hadn't realized that someone had pointed it out already! It is obvious to me that it is not his voice, but i wasn't sure about others so i thought i would point it out! Just trying to make pleasant conversation! :P
I totally agree with you. I guess it's one of the most underrated Spielberg's films, and one of his best... and C. Bale is perfect showing his loneliness and despair¡ why wasn't he even nominated for an Academy Award?
Whoever decided to put Suo Gan in here was a genius. John Williams or Spielberg or whoever. I don't consider Suo Gan to be very patriotic tho. It seems as though that is what they're trying to evoke. e. g. I don't think i'd sing Brahm's Lullaby at a football event.
Yes, this is a Welsh Lullabye which, according to a Welsh friend, is about a mother rocking her baby to sleep. This scene, if you noticed, is akin to a scene from Casablanca where a group of Germans are singing Wacht am Rhein and the crows sings La Marseliase. Well that's how I perceive this scene anyway. In both cases, yes it is pure genius, but this scene brings a tear to my eye.
I think that both Spielberg and Williams aimed to show the Japanese concept of Mono no Aware, the sadness inherent in things, and the Welsh lullaby is supposed to convey the transience of life that the Japanese adopted as a cultural outlook from a very early age in their history, and that played a magor role in the ritual of Kamikaze, while the boy fathoms it for the first time
It's the only one I know so I'll have to agree. I am glad I am not a penguin, bachgen, I would hate to sit on an egg for 2 months in subzero weather. :o/
Sleep my baby on my busom
Warm and cosy it will prove
Round thee mothwers arms are folding
In her heart a mothers love.
Then shall no one come to harm thee
Nought shall ever break they rest
Sleep my darling baby quiet
Sleep on mothers gentle breast.
MegaTiggers 5 months ago
Christian bale was fucking amazing in this film!!
MrHaddify 6 months ago
during the whole movie i felt so sorry for Mrs Victor...
armaduck2000 8 months ago
Cymru Am Byth!
mutley2209 8 months ago
best movie I have ever seen it gave me goosbumps when he sang this
TheDabomb44 9 months ago
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Tenno heika banzai
yzod20 2 years ago
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yzod20 2 years ago
My mom used to sing this song to me as a baby, and I love this film so much. It's so horrible that his friend dies in the end, right before they're released. :-(
Thanks for posting though!
TheKa89 2 years ago
@TheKa89 So what's this song all about? Where can I wind the words for it?
germanMasterroach 8 months ago
@germanMasterroach it is a mother singing a lullaby
skullknap 6 months ago
@skullknap It's beautiful
germanMasterroach 6 months ago
It makes the hairs on my neck stand...its so eerily moving.
SpiritOfTheRainbow 2 years ago
amazing
eliselaury 2 years ago 2
This makes my heart sing...
quirkiespirit 2 years ago 2
War so der vergebliche Versuch durch das zerbröckelnde japanische Reich, die zionistischen Verbündeten zu besiegen und die Invasion der hässlichen, schwarzen Horden zu verhindern, wer die Frauen jeder Nation beschmutzen machen!
LDD86 2 years ago
No need to go into it so deeply mate. Best to forgive rather than keep that hatred locked up. Life is too short. And it is a beutiful song and a good movie.
british48mill 2 years ago
this movie was amazing, i nearly cried at the end this movie is amazing and emotional
LDKihrBitches 2 years ago
i flippin' love this song :)
riftintimeandspace 2 years ago
This piece of film tears out my heart also.
Truly brilliant film by Spielberg
The character Jim/Christian Bale salutes the young Japanese pilot with Sou Gan at his Scottish school in China .
The young NIpponese pilot saved Jims life days before, (while Jim was retrieving his model airplane outside the wire).
It was not just love of aviation that caused the bond, but also the unwritten code of being a kid .
It tears out my heart
l87kmps 2 years ago 3
A wonderful, underrated film, imo. The young Christian Bale was magnificent. The song, a Welsh lullaby, 'Suo Gan,' was beautifully sung by one of the top English boy sopranos of the time, James Rainbird. I've often wondered if that song was chosen as the film's theme because the Welsh tune sounds something like a Chinese mode; and also, I suppose, because it is an innocent sound, reflective of the main character's boyhood.
eaglegray 2 years ago 12
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luv this song
JEDikINgZ 2 years ago
i love this film, i love this scene
Blanqueador 2 years ago
Japanese never apologized for what they did to the Chinese, or what they did in the Philippines, far worse than the Germans,
weeks630 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading this !
hveenfan 2 years ago
One of the best scenes in the movie, A movie not many remember.
RoryGibson10 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure it is bale, the lispy tones give it away.
alexv1993 2 years ago
its not
bahhv2 2 years ago
it is bale singing. you can tell by the lisps and exhale
xLightFilmsx 2 years ago
You can mention Jaws or Jurassic Park or the Indiana Jones movies, and people know what you're talking about. This movie is soooooo much more a true cinematic experience, so artfully made, and you just don't hear about it.
janimil08 2 years ago
Was that really Bale singing?
Baldenlong77 2 years ago
nope...lip sync, not sure the name of the boy that sung in his place
bahhv2 2 years ago
No Bale lip-sung.
ryomafujieiji 2 years ago
hiroshima nagasaki was realy necesary or a wepond test... exelent pic..
skOneee123 2 years ago
This is one of the saddest scene ever shoot in history.
balloydspiritsoul 2 years ago 2
Listen to Rhydian singing this at the 2009 Eisteddfod at Bala in August. It is magical.
Look for it on you tube.
Alexjhs 2 years ago
LOL @ the welshie singing my welsh tune...its mine!!
3tangle3 2 years ago
Bryn Terfel singing this on youtube is well worth hearing. Christian Bale is also from Wales
mizofan 2 years ago
History lesson daygo,WWII ..our enemies were the GErmans,Italians ,and Japanese.the Germans had to defend Italy,mostly because the Italian army folded up.you put up less odf a fight against us than France did against Germany.Learn history,learn how to fight,and take off that faggy little hat.Did we,or did we not beat you guys in the war?and dont call me a fucking idiot until you learn what youre talking about.Speckalovatcha.
essoclemson 2 years ago
what are we looking at my eneducated litlle friend?
essoclemson 2 years ago
yeah, yeah - heard it all before - america is the root of all evil. bla bla
believe me, the world flushes itself down the drain - even without ami-land.
Spikesfeet 2 years ago
ahh,go fuck yourself.the whole world said this about the romans once as well.oh,nice fighting during WWII as well.were you in a race with France to see who could surrender the fastest?
essoclemson 2 years ago
This song and movie broke my heart. I can't believe some of the ignorant comments made by You tube posters. Oh wait...yes I can. But regardless, they don't affect the brilliance of the film.
JadedRuby 2 years ago
I agree whole heartedly with what you just wrote.
essoclemson 2 years ago
If you haven't seen the movie, you can't really appreciate allyou see in this clip. Jim has a tremendous admiration for planes and pilots, even his captors'. And only Spielberg could pull off having him salute and sing for the kamikaze pilots without our losing our affection for him.
DataDame 2 years ago
"Japanese are the bravest soldiers in the world." - from the novel Empire of the Sun
LastCommodore 2 years ago
Which is why the Americans crushed them.
TheIloveliterature 2 years ago
Are they, probably that was from the mouth of a seven year's old boy in the novel, and he actually changed his point of view at the end. From Dec13, 1937, from the Japanese soldiers rushed into the old capital of Republic of China in Naking, in 1 month, at least 300 thousand people were killed, most of them killed in sorts of competition of killing, 10 thousands of women were raped and finally killed, incl. some not even reached to 18 and old women. Japanese are the real evils on the earth.
pommeying 2 years ago
"Japanese are the real evils on the earth. "
You shouldn't say it like that. What's past is past, it's not good for anyone to hold grudges.
One could say the same about the Americans, British, French, Russians, Chinese, practically every country for the horrible acts that have taken place in the past.
hezzart 2 years ago
We are human beings, so that means we would make mistakes, but definitely on the certain of limit. In China we always compare how German and Japanese treat the war, both of them made big massacre, but nowadays German keep all the concentration camps and educate their children not to step into the same mistake, but Japanese do the oppsite.
pommeying 2 years ago 2
I am sorry to say that, but through my japanese american friends, hardly you find japanese admit they are wrong, they all think they are nice and right, so that's why japanese only have less then 1% of the Christian population. And of course, hardly they would say they did the wrong thing during the war, havent seen them made official apologize yet. I dont want to argue with you, but that is the truth, please dont reply me.
pommeying 2 years ago
I am going to reply to you, because that's the freedom of discussion.
The Japanese are proud people, that's a given but I hardly see anything wrong in that. I don't understand what Christian population has anything to do with it though, it's not unlike other Asian countries.
The Japanese Government HAS issued official apologies in the past for it's actions during WWII. To my ears it sounds like stubborn-ace on your part, not wanting to forgive instead.
hezzart 2 years ago
Just remembering that the US goverment also aked apologies for nuking the A-Bomb. That was a totattly unecessary in that situation.
vinizan 2 years ago
Hi there, so far I know about only one country that used Two Atomic bombs against civilian population.
And I have never heard that country apologize for the masacre.
emilioundercover 2 years ago
the little traitor is saluting the japanese imperialist!!! hang the little bastard!!!
theunraveler 2 years ago
Fuck off, bastard! Hang the British imperialist you are!!! Free Wales! Free Ireland!
DebrerFrans 2 years ago
Yawn.
MrRobertSama 2 years ago
some time in history the irish and brits came from the same people. what do you think? the irish just magically appeared on that little island next to england?
Spikesfeet 2 years ago
but the germanics split off from the celts culturally a while before meeting again on the british mainland ;)...india is the root of the two believed..i am not sure myself
3tangle3 2 years ago
Hes not saluting the japanese, youve totally missed the point, hes saluting the pilots.
MrRobertSama 2 years ago 19
@MrRobertSama yes he has resprect for them
TheDabomb44 9 months ago
Do someone know what is the name of this song?
Thank you
Garagorte 2 years ago
Suo Gan, it's Welsh
joen0411 2 years ago
Thank you!
Garagorte 2 years ago
suo gan
meratakan 2 years ago
Thank you!, Regards,
Garagorte 2 years ago
good old wales!:D
mogshd 2 years ago 2
One thing that I've learned from watching Spielberg movies is that everything he presents to the viewer is there for a reason. He doesn't add content for no reason, anything that is in his movies is there to deepen and strengthen the plot, or to give the viewer more of an understanding of it, and this is shown through the irony of the song Suo Gan, which people below me have described.
bweed26 2 years ago 2
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That kid is a traitor.
The English in there should have fought to the death.
Anyone that gets captured deserves anything they get.
BitingOsprey 2 years ago
That was Stalin's philosophy. You should feel honoured to have the same philosophy as he.
(Please don't write and tell me that I am a lousy communist. I am a liberal. What I wrote above was meant to be ironic).
ifuliki 2 years ago
I coud not agree more!
GamerSScro 2 years ago
They were civilians dumb ass. He was a child. You are a fucking moron.
headinjuredkeeper 2 years ago
best movie ever
tomphat246 2 years ago 2
Cadillac of the sky!!!!!!!!!
theuglyrose 2 years ago
dubadudu, I feel like this kid too. Life sucks
turkwize 2 years ago
chin up dude, life is what you make of it,
jackwills101 2 years ago
no he didnt, google it peace
GINGERNINJA2823 2 years ago
did the Baile really sing that?
jackwills101 2 years ago
no he lip-synced it
zanmato666 2 years ago
The best bit for me in this brilliant film is when , he's in the green house waitng for his parents to come. then when he finally embraces his mother he shuts his eyes!!
nikon005 2 years ago
POWERFULL!!
bxlhustla 2 years ago 2
watched the movie last night and was blown away by C.Baile's performance
jackwills101 2 years ago 6
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BalesBabe82 2 years ago
Sure it was one of his best. I've always thought that he deserved to have won the Academy Award for this amazingly brilliant and unbelievable performance!!!
Melenita64 2 years ago 2
they created an award to give him for this - Outstanding Performance by a Child Actor.
crock703 2 years ago 2
I would have to.
ryomafujieiji 2 years ago
Yes, it's true, he was given this award by the NRB but I ment an Academy Award (Oscar)
In my opinion he deserved the highest awards for this astonishing and breathtaking performance. I think an actor is an actor, no matter how old he is... and maybe this special awards are created to avoid adult actors' jealousy if competing with a child or a teen!
Melenita64 2 years ago
This is the best scene of the film (:
susie383 2 years ago 6
It really is. This and.. "I thought it was Mrs. Victors' soul going to Heaven."
essoclemson 2 years ago 7
This is one of the greatest films of all time. I hardly ever cry at a movie but this one brought a tear to my eye.
Maxfield93 2 years ago 3
Record: I did it aproxametly at 20,00 pm . I need one more.
dubadudu1 2 years ago
I feel like this little boy all my life.
dubadudu1 2 years ago
I love how this clip has a happy ending and not the plane blowing up in the horizon... xD
DigitalxHumanoid 2 years ago 2
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moslems blow things up and the whole world hates islam's guts.
moslemssuck 2 years ago
bad boy X[
19daydreamer93 2 years ago
Actually, I'm not a moslem and don't behead or maim, therefore I is a very very GOOD person.
moslemssuck 2 years ago
goooddd one =]........but you es still mean. why are you even posting that on here anyway??
19daydreamer93 2 years ago
One of the few films to bring a tear or two to my eye!
mcebe 2 years ago
really??? the song was the only thing i liked...o_o
19daydreamer93 2 years ago
Maybe it's the thought of being away from the one's you love, and learning to get on and survive in your own little world.
mcebe 2 years ago
@ mcebe:
You're the only other person I've seen who understood the irony in the use of this song (Suo Gan) in the movie. The song (it's in Welsh) is about a child being safe and protected in his mother's arms. The boy in the movie, however, spent the war in a Japanese POW camp surviving by his wits without his parents' protection.
Evan Owen
CantwrCymreig 2 years ago 5
That's interesting. I never thought that choosing this song had any significance other than it was a beautiful introduction to what is really a horror story which ends with an emotional reunion with the boy's parents. How I loved those final scenes. It was a great movie. There seems to be controversy about who sang Suo Gan for the movie. Who was it, Evan? Do You know? It sounds to me like Aled Jones.
Aled
ifuliki 2 years ago
It matches the contrast in Jim/Christian Bale's experience in the war. He's in a nightmare, but he flourishes. He finds peace in his love for flying and fraternity with the japanese pilots, he totally transcends the storm around him.
When he sang the song at the beginning, he was in the lap of comfort, and could hardly keep from yawning let alone recognize the beauty of it the song.
He finds a more peaceful consciousness in eye of the turbulence.. kind of like being rocked to tranquilitysleep?
crock703 2 years ago 3
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BalesBabe82 2 years ago
I think this scene and song is great thanks alot for uploading this dude!!!! (5 stars)
rockdude019 2 years ago
i've always been curious why he's on the side of japan if they're the invaders? does anyone have their own reasoning why?
aaartnaz 2 years ago
He admires the Japanese pilots. Not sure he's on the side of Japan. Boys admire grown men, especially if they have cool weapons and blow thing's up. :-)
"They like us because we blow shit up" - Generation Kill
corporate88slave 2 years ago 2
Its not that simple, he admirss their bravery and shares a love of flying. Hes living in the war and overwhelmed by it. He's just surfing on a wave sort of, transfixed by the power of the moment he's in. Its only later that he's sort of snapped back to reality and realizes he's suffered while surviving the war.
The airplanes.. even though they are "enemies," they share a love of flying that transcends everything else. Its a weapon & they're soldiers. That peace & universality transcends war.
crock703 2 years ago
I think you should have left the explosion in. Anyway, great scene.
oberstul 2 years ago
Great Clip...Rest in Peace JG Ballard.
Toyotomi 2 years ago 3
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dorn85 2 years ago
Great scene from a great movie! It's incredible to realize too that the young actor here is Christian Bale. I mean, who knew that he would go on to be The Dark Knight?
quistador 2 years ago 2
Oh i know! He is my favorite actor and i just couldn't believe it when i found out that he was in this as a child! I find it funny when ppl say they dont like Christian's acting and then say how great the kid in this movie is haha! Cracks me up!
BalesBabe82 2 years ago
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Melenita64 2 years ago
Quando la musica , per sua natura tanto dolce e soave, viene sfiorata dalla potenza di Dio , come accade nella musica sacra, allora si trasforma nel piu grande veicolo di grazia e bellezza!
SUPERFASCIO 2 years ago 2
Dio? Quale?
doctopus23 2 years ago
piękna scena
hanys26 2 years ago 2
...and a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.
princeofravens89 2 years ago
The best scene in the Empire of the Sun, it's so beauty.... Greetings for all fans of John Williams' music
dawidjoseph05 2 years ago
Not John Williams of course (nor even Christian Bale singing it) but for me the saddest, most beautiful song in any film I have ever seen. I watch this film every time its on just for this.
TheBriser 2 years ago 3
Christian didn't sing it, he lipped it! Some other boy sang it!
BalesBabe82 2 years ago
figure that one out on your own?
JustaSilentWarrior 2 years ago
I wasn't questioning i was making a point! I hadn't realized that someone had pointed it out already! It is obvious to me that it is not his voice, but i wasn't sure about others so i thought i would point it out! Just trying to make pleasant conversation! :P
BalesBabe82 2 years ago 3
Best movie of all time. The music is amazing.
alethiaaeterna 3 years ago
I totally agree with you. I guess it's one of the most underrated Spielberg's films, and one of his best... and C. Bale is perfect showing his loneliness and despair¡ why wasn't he even nominated for an Academy Award?
Melenita64 3 years ago 2
FOR REAL!
VintageTexan5 2 years ago
He wasn't nominated for an award, but they created a new award just for his performance "Outstanding Performance by a Child Actor" or somehting
crock703 2 years ago
Amazing moment... so sad.
deepeye1328 3 years ago
the look on the Japanese Sgt's face says it all...:)
x100percentx 3 years ago 3
yeah he did a pretty good job there
Krieger69 2 years ago 3
Oh my lord brings me to tears every time!
VanillaflavoredSora 3 years ago 2
I love this movie! my favorite movie of all times!
gil3cervezas 3 years ago 6
one of the best scene in any movie :) one of my fav's
RescueMeAu 3 years ago
a beautiful scene for a fantastic movie...
PebbledBeach 3 years ago 4
Whoever decided to put Suo Gan in here was a genius. John Williams or Spielberg or whoever. I don't consider Suo Gan to be very patriotic tho. It seems as though that is what they're trying to evoke. e. g. I don't think i'd sing Brahm's Lullaby at a football event.
AdamG319 3 years ago 10
i think that was what they tried to do with the movie, continually showing contrasts. Lullaby vs war and such.
shizznettube 3 years ago 3
Yes, this is a Welsh Lullabye which, according to a Welsh friend, is about a mother rocking her baby to sleep. This scene, if you noticed, is akin to a scene from Casablanca where a group of Germans are singing Wacht am Rhein and the crows sings La Marseliase. Well that's how I perceive this scene anyway. In both cases, yes it is pure genius, but this scene brings a tear to my eye.
doobeedoo58 3 years ago
I think that both Spielberg and Williams aimed to show the Japanese concept of Mono no Aware, the sadness inherent in things, and the Welsh lullaby is supposed to convey the transience of life that the Japanese adopted as a cultural outlook from a very early age in their history, and that played a magor role in the ritual of Kamikaze, while the boy fathoms it for the first time
oresteus 3 years ago 2
More like the difference in cultures - the disposable men were once children themselves.
This is not A welsh lullaby - it's THE welsh lullaby...
welshpenguin 2 years ago 3
Sut 'dach chi
It's the only one I know so I'll have to agree. I am glad I am not a penguin, bachgen, I would hate to sit on an egg for 2 months in subzero weather. :o/
Hwyl.
ifuliki 2 years ago
So sweet Christian Bale!!He is the greatest actor ever!!!!
michy2280 3 years ago 5