Review of Empire of the Sun 1987 Spielberg. Ballard's book 1984.

Rae West - 18 October 2023

Japanese drawing of jelly and petroleum fire bombs and their 'mother bomb' as used throughout Japan. Precursor of fragmentation bombs used in Vietnam.

The cover design of Spielberg's movie package m,ay have been intended to suggest this weapon.

Just brief comments on this old film, based on a J G Ballard novel, which 'won' a Guardian award—a Jewish propaganda 'newspaper'.

At the time I write, this film is 36 years old, and the actors even older than they appear in make-up, if indeed they're still alive.

The script is supposedly by Tom Stoppard, who seems to be a Czech Jew. I say 'supposedly' because internal evidence suggests it's been Americanised and possibly product-placed in the process.

The focus isn't exactly broad and sweeping; it concentrates on one boy, supposedly Ballard before his family moved to Shepperton in west London. (J G Ballard = James Graham Ballard, unless it was changed from a Jewish name). There's are small subplots, for example friendship with a Japanese fellow thrower of model gliders. The whole presentation is of puzzlement at war, which must have appealed to Spielberg: Jim wonders which side )of two) will win the war, understandably unaware of the fine print over ownership of assets and the mycelium of Jewish money penetration of the world.

The film (c. 3 hours) has immense longeurs; I'd guess Stoppard's script was exiguous, and I'd guess the film wasn't very successful. But it has the virtue of making the effort of reading the original (author Ballard now dead) which perhaps is a relief. One such longeur is the singing of what seems like a Japanese Christian song, with the Jewish word 'alleluiah' in there. This was lip-synched unconvincingly by Christian Bale.

Malkovich was given top billing, which seems a bit unfair, though he does a good job of conveying goy American soldiery as grasping and vicious, which of course has Jew appeal. We have some saddening Americanisation, such as Life magazine, the unpleasant Hershey bars, and such brand names as Studebaker and Packard.
The cast included Nigel Havers, Miranda Richardson, Leslie Phillips the comic male flirt, and a few other Brits or Brit Jews.

I wondered whether the so-called "atom bomb" would be in there, and it duly was. Another astonishing Jewish fraud which appears in other Spielberg betrugfests. The period of the film is after Pearl Harbour (British spelling of Pearl Harbor, as used for the Sandwich Islands).
And I wondered if there'd be rape scenes, but there weren't. Or perhaps scenes of Japan and China at war, no doubt without Jewish complications. But. again, there weren't.

The Japanese, at around the time misrepresented, were being firebombed at home; many must have had families burnt alive. Spielberg and Stoppard avoid such topics. As they avoid opium wars. And the penetration of Jews into both China and Japan.
The depth of the millennial Jewish penetration, soaking through most parts of the world, drips throughout, including the Jewish idea of 'God', Christianity as a side-effect of Judaic stuff, The British in China, the casual brutality of US military persons, Presidents Rosenfeldt and Truman... everything.

Spielberg cannot avoid repetition. Probably it's second nature, saving the effort of new visual establishments. We have a "Please sir, I want some more" scene. Repeated joke scenes. A moody throw of a case into water scene. Extras running about in all directions scenes. A machine gunned man taking a rapid star spread. Japanese shouting "banzai!". A radio voice, attempting to mimic the BBC, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Huge red suns, probably filmed in very long focus, with accompanying atmospheric turbulence.

The film ends with the identification of young James or 'Jim' by his parents. The coming of what was called 'peace', when many U.S. persons must have returned to find their neighborhoods occupied by Germanish, Polish-like, and other gabbling jubilant aliens with paper money and special permits and housing allowances. The supposedly victorious US 'veterans', ready to have their lives even more disrupted by corrupt education and money-grabbing medicos and lifelong debt.

I wondered if Ballard wanted to cash in old World War 2 propaganda, but in fact six years before Schindler's List Spielberg was marked by flying saucers and 'aliens', sharks, Harrison Ford, dinosaurs—an astonishing list of mental junk food for simpletons. My guess is that Spielberg was chosen for Schindler because his back catalogue of silly thrillers made him disownable.

Some DVDs had a second disk, something like a home video called a 'documentary'. Including a possibly pathetically grateful Ballard a balding avuncular type contrasting with Spielberg's ferret cunning. Some was filmed in Shanghai, including the 'International Settlement' where European and American bosses lived. That's the simplified version, omitting Jewish power; after the 1913 Federal Reserve, Jewish paper money dominated.

Spielberg as a director is shown telling the actors what faces to make: James was told to gawp open-mouthed at airplanes; old actors were told to bang tin cans. Spielberg is shown encouraging them. It all looked friendly, though there must have been moments of exasperation.
Just like behind-the-scenes people directing captive studio audiences to cheer and applaud; or news shots with people told to applaud for war. Spielberg is that type of director.

I have a hefty volume by Ballard, which on close inspection is seen to have its second half taken up with The Kindness of Women, written seven years later. I don't deny that Ballard (including his medical training) could be a powerful writer: his book The Atrocity Exhibition (The American title was: Love and Napalm: Export USA hs a disgusting passage on a Vietnamese vulva after rape by Americans. But of course this sort of thing would never appear in Speilberg's American suburban mind of new houses with cardboard walls, plus his voodoo-like superstitions..

Ballard himself admitted there was "no good evidence of the atom bomb" at the time. He said some things about Americans providing the Japanese with oil. But the world of American lathes made in Chicago in Japan, the financing of Mao by Americans, the funding of Japan by infiltrated Jews after steam ships invaded Japan, and things which remain to be discovered, is unknown to Ballard in any detail. The comparison of Shanghai with Weimar Germany in missed; Jim being too young to notice. Just right for Hollywood.

I hope this sketch is useful for young people trying to take 'media studies' etc seriously.

Rae West big-lies.org 18 October 2023

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