The New York Times said that war is a sensitive topic. The war caused profound damage to the combatants, to many people, to many fates. Therefore, the script of a war film is very likely to cause controversy, when each person has a different approach and perspective on a war.
In 2001, the movie Pearl Harbor was released, based on the real event of the Pearl Harbor battle conducted by the Japanese Navy Air Force against the US Navy base in 1941.
In December 2021, Japan launched a surprise attack on a Sunday morning, leaving the US military unable to react. The attack caused heavy casualties and damage to the US. It was this attack that opened the way for the US to decide to join World War II.
In the film, director Michael Bay's "Tran Chau Dinh" depicts the surprise of the attack, when on Sunday morning, American soldiers were still sleeping after the 7th night party, and the whole of the US was not any precautions. However, the film was criticized for its involvement in a love triangle between two American pilots and a female Navy nurse. Although not highly appreciated for recreating the Tran Chau port match, the film still achieved high revenue.
On the part of Japanese audiences and media, they expressed their anger when they thought that the American film Tran Chau Dang had distorted historical truth, tarnished the US air force and tarnished the US defeat in 1941.
Many films with the theme of war have met with reactions from audiences and media in different countries that have fought.
The super product Oppenheimer in 2023 revolves around the process of scientist Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues assigned to develop the nuclear bomb in the apartment project. Two nuclear bombs were made from this project and were then dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945 with terrible casualties.
Oppenheimer also details the US Navys defeat in 1941 in Hawaii as one of the reasons for the USs decision to launch the nuclear bomb on Japan in 1945.
Up to now, the US dropping of the bomb on two Japanese cities is still a hotly controversial topic in world history.
The film Oppenheimer has scenes expressing the emotions, determination, and voting of Robert Oppenheimer when he heard about the number of victims and casualties in Japan - caused by the two nuclear bombs he contributed to make.
However, this film was still opposed by Japanese audiences and media, because they thought that Oppenheimer had taken their pain lightly, even stifling Japans tragedy when the US dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 2017, the war film Dunkirk (Vietnamese title: Dunkirk Exiled) by director Christopher Nolan was also set in World War 2. The film received a storm of compliments from critics and film lovers. The way Dunkirks space and storytelling timing are handled is praised for being extreme in the face of the camera, full of Nolans... bringing strong emotions to the audience. The film caused a storm at the world box office.
Dunkirk revolves around the flight of the British army. At the end of May 1940, about 400,000 soldiers of the Allied army (France, England, Belgium) were concentration by the German army on the coast of Dunkirk, waiting to die. However, with Putin's most controversial decision in history to "not attack to the end", the British government called for a rescue operation and brought nearly 300,000 soldiers out of Dunkirk across the Manche Strait back home.
When Dunkirk made waves at the box office, the film was criticized by French critics.
French media believes that Dunkirk contains many historical untrue details and has taken the role of the French army in the famous defeat lightly.
French newspaper Le Monde criticized Dunkirk for having un Police and questioned where the French soldiers were, why is the film taking the historical role of the French lightly?
The French newspaper said that Dunkirk did not record the contributions of the 30,000 French soldiers who died, and that they helped the British army avoid the disaster of having to surrender.
It can be seen that, against the backdrop of a great history, with a small-scale approach to a cinematic work, it will easily cause all kinds of controversy.
