Excerpt from Film Review:
Raid delivers valuable insight into the conflict that was occurring inside the Pacific during World War II. All too often, the discord in the Pacific cycles is forgotten and emphasis is placed for the conflict in Europe. While it is an important part of American history, the turmoil between the United states of america and Japan focuses on the bombing of Pearl Harbor plus the dropping with the atomic explosive device on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Great Raid provides the audience with an opportunity to see how the usa retaliated up against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor was bombed and the consequences of taking on japan army. Furthermore, The Great Rezzou provides regarding the collaboration between United States Armed Forces and Filipino armed forces and the control that Asia had within the Philippines.
The film is usually accurate in depicting the horrors that American POWs had to put up with while in the hands of the Western. The film depicts a lot of instances where the Imperial Japanese people Army overreached their specialist and murdered POWs possibly to “discipline” them or perhaps because these people were ordered to. There are several occasions in which the film depicts these horrors. As an example, at the beginning of the film, the introductory sequence is narrated to provide a historical background into what led American soldiers to occupy and free the POW camp by Cabanatuan. Among the atrocities which the film starts with is definitely the Bataan Death March; the Bataan Loss of life March triggered the deaths of a large number of American and Filipino POWs as they were forced to drive over 80 miles from one prisoner camp to another. The footage in the Bataan Fatality March is specially haunting since it appears to be video clip and photographs which were taken in the time the march in the nineteen forties. A second sort of the mistreatment of POWs that is portrayed is pointless and raw massacre of POWs by Japanese when POWs were forced in covered trenches and then dress fire. The two of these horrific incidents help to set up the discussion that POWs at Cabanatuan needed to be preserved immediately or perhaps suffer a similar tragic destiny – that later displayed that the POWs at Cabanatuan were certainly fated for the same end, however their rescue was performed before the Japan had a opportunity to go through while using massacre.
In the film, Captain Robert Knight in shining armor comes up with an idea of strike that is designed to rescue the POWs that are being held for Cabanatuan. As his plan begins to have shape, it is clear which the American causes would gain greatly via an alliance with Filipino guerillas since both military had a prevalent enemy although the American forces had the personnel and cannon, the Filipinos knew the lay of the land and knew Western military approaches. Together, the Americans could actually collaborate together with the Filipinos to raid and destroy Japan camps.
When these troops suspect that the POWs had been mistreated and this rescuing these people is of utmost importance, they just do not know to what extent the POWs have been completely, in essence, tormented. The film enables the viewer to view how the Japan would killing prisoners through direct and indirect strategies. For example , POWs would be tortured to death in front of their
