Come and see paradise
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Come and see paradise |
| Original title | Come see the paradise |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 138 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Parker |
| script | Alan Parker |
| production |
Robert F. Colesberry , Nellie Nugiel |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | Michael Seresin |
| cut | Gerry Hambling |
| occupation | |
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Come and see the paradise (original title Come See the Paradise ) is a 1990 staged by the director Alan Parker melodrama , which addresses the internment of Japanese-born Americans during World War II .
action
Lily McGann is with her little daughter Mini on the way to the train station in the California provincial nest Florin near Sacramento in the late 1940s to pick up her husband Jack, who has returned from several years in prison. During the walk, Lily tells daughter Mini the story of her father Jack.
America 1936: The union activist Jack McGurn can not accept the unscrupulous actions of the projectionists' union in Brooklyn and leaves New York. He is temporarily staying with his brother Gerry's family in Los Angeles . In the Little Tokyo district he finds work as a projectionist in the cinema of Mr. Kawamura, who immigrated from Japan . Jack McGann, as he calls himself now, befriends Mr. Kawamura's son Charlie and through him gets to know his sister Lily. It is love at first sight for both of them. Lily's traditionally minded parents are strictly against the relationship and fire Jack. Lily and Jack travel to Seattle because in Washington State , unlike California, marriages between Japanese and non-Japanese are allowed. The couple were perfectly happy when their daughter Mini appeared the following year. Jack works in a fish factory and one day witnesses the abuse of peaceful unionists. He then began to unionize again. The first tensions appear in the marriage. When Jack is injured and arrested in a demonstration that was forcibly broken up by the police, Lily decides to return to her parents with her daughter.
When she arrives in Los Angeles, she learns that her father has been arrested and taken to North Dakota . The Japanese have now bombed Pearl Harbor and are at war with the United States . The Japanese immigrants are increasingly the victims of vandalism and abuse of their white fellow citizens. Finally, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues the infamous Order No. 9 , which provides for the internment of all Japanese Americans. The Kawamura's are transported to the Manzanar internment camp with thousands of others . One day, Mr. Kawamura arrives at the camp. The other camp residents mistakenly see him as an FBI spy and let him feel it. Kawamura-san is a broken man, becomes increasingly lonely and eventually dies. Jack, who was released from prison by joining the US Army , shows up in the camp after months. He has to admit that he cannot help Lily and her family. Charlie Kawamura becomes a Japanese nationalist through unjust treatment, while his brother Harry escapes life in the camp through voluntary service in the army. Charlie and his like-minded fellows are eventually sent to Japan in exchange for prisoner-of-war GIs . After more than two years, the Supreme Court declared internment unconstitutional in December 1944. The joy of the Kawamuras at their regained freedom is short-lived. They are told that Harry died in the war. They cannot return to Little Tokyo, but they find shelter on the strawberry plantation of relatives in Florin.
Lily has reached the end of her story. At the same moment you can hear the whistle signal of the arriving train in the distance. When Jack gets out of a wagon, there's no stopping Lily. She rushes towards Jack and, overjoyed, falls into her husband's arms.
Locations
The film was shot in the three west coast states of California , Oregon and Washington . Filming locations were Astoria , Portland and Willamette Valley in Oregon. Filming locations in Washington were Seattle , Tacoma and Cathlarnet . The internment camp Manzanar was established in Palmdale, California .
Reviews
“Extensive chronicle of a deportation. Pompous, historical "
"Technically perfectly staged"
Web links
- Come See the Paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Come and see Paradise. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 26, 2017 .