I will post a full review on DEAD TO RIGHTS as soon as a see it again under better circumstances. I say this because I saw the film at the AMC Raceway in Westbury and the bulb was so dim that it was hard to see a chunk of this because it is a dark film. I also was not happy with the fact that while the print had subtitles for all the dialog, it didn't have any of the writing subtitled. For an espionage film where what is written is important it resulted me being a bit in the dark.
My issues with the film aside this is a very good film. The film is the story of a postal worker during the start of Nanjing Massacre. As the Japanese invade the the city chaos reigns. In order to save himself, a Postal worker says he can develop film. With the help of the owner of the shop, who is in hiding, he begins to develop the pictures of the atrocities that the Japanese are taking as glowing record of what they did in the war. Realizing that people need to know what was happening, the group in the studio have to figure out how to remain alive long enough to escape with the photos.
This is a bleak film. It is a film full of man's inhumanity to man as well as the light that shines in some people. It is a film about doing the right thing in moments of darkness. Do not go into this film hoping to come out singing zip-a-dee- do-dah.
I liked this film, because of the circumstances of the screening I don't know how much. I will say that I liked that there is some slight shading regarding some of the Japanese. At the same time some of the turns probably didn't need so melodramatic.
Ultimately it is recommended but I do need to see this again under better circumstances. (And my saying I want to see it again sooner than later speaks volumes about how good it is.)
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