Empire Of The Sun

Empire of The Sun is an emotional movie about a young British boy, James "Jamie" Graham living in Shanghai, China with his wealthy parents in the 1940s. Throughout this movie Jamie struggles to find his own identity. During this journey Japan invades the country and World War II begins. He goes through many challenges through out the movie, such as finding shelter, a place where he feels as though he's accepted, and even his parents. Interested? Good cause i'm no where near done.

We first meet good ol' Jamie when he's singing in his school choir. Later as we get into the movie we learn that he has a extreme fascination with planes. Jamie is a young, sheltered boy that doesn't know much about the world. This all changes when he gets seperated from his parents in a huge crowd of people running away from the attacks that Japan is putting upon China. After this moment he realizes that he must fend for himself. He later comes across two americans one named Baisey, and another man, who take him under his wing. For a while they give him what seems to be shelter, and make him feel as though he belongs. Jamie then feels as though he wants to be an "American". Despite the fact that he wants the Japanese to win because of their planes.

Throughout this entire movie Jame an already confused boy struggles to find his own identity due to the fact that he's British living in China. He also demonstrates his confusion by cheering for the Japanese due to the fact that he loves their planes. He knows that if the Japanese win the war that he's likely to never find his family again. Even though this is true he wants the japanese to win because the feels at one with their planes. As long as their planes fly so does his soul. This all changes when America finally stepped into the war and Jamie saw the americans flying his favorite plane of all time a P-51 "Cadillac Of The Sky". He jumped ship and began to root for the Americans!

Over the course of time that Jamie was living on his own he needed to find shelter. He originally went back home due to his instincts. That worked until began to run out of food, and realized thats nobody was coming back. He then went in search of finding food when he found Baisey who took him to his temporary home. From there they went to the concentration camp that was set up for the British people living in China. Then at the end of the movie he found his true home when he found his parents.

In conclusion this young british boy went through basic hell trying to find his inner being. He went from loving the British, to the Japanse, then later the Americans. Throughout all of this soul searching he stayed true to his original love, his love for planes. He truly laid his soul down to rest when he saw his favorite plane. He found himself deep down, he found identity and eventually found a place for his shelter no matter how many times it changed. This movie was extremely great.