Hiroshima Love
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Marguerite Duras's masterpiece is also her most influential play; a cross-era classic that wanders between words and images; an illicit love that transcends taboos, a symphony of time and space with double trauma; a peace fable in the era of nuclear weapons, revisiting classics amid the rifts of globalization. "Hiroshima Mon Amour" is a film script written by Duras for the film of the same name and is one of her most famous masterpieces. A French actress went to Hiroshima, Japan, to shoot a film promoting peace. When the filming was about to be completed, she met a Japanese architect, and the two quickly fell in love. What she saw at the Hiroshima Museum and her love affair with a Japanese man reminded her of her experiences during World War II. Fourteen years ago, on the eve of the end of the war, she fell in love with a German soldier, and the two left France together. However, on the morning before departure, the German soldier was shot dead by cold fire. The woman was devastated by the loss of her lover, but because she fell in love with an enemy of the motherland, her head was shaved as punishment and her father imprisoned her in a cellar. The love with a Japanese man opened the floodgates of her memory. After the woman's love was destroyed, Hiroshima was also destroyed by the atomic bomb, turning the entire city into ruins.
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