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He even makes friend with some of the Japanese, a group not known for treating prisoners well in World War II. Fascinating how Bale who had an interest in aviation looks at the Japanese planes and become almost worshipful of the enemy. Later on Bale is rounded up and taken to an internment camp next to an airfield. Without any dialog Bale runs through a gamut of emotions. I had to marvel at how when Bale came home and the parents were gone and some looting had occurred how his reactions were. That's when Bale's well ordered world falls apart. It ended a bit prematurely for the west in 1941 when the Japanese attacked America, Great Britain, the Netherlands. That only ended with the Communist takeover in 1949. The other powers did the same, even the USA had its own quarter in Shanghai as well as other large Chinese cities. Frazer, Emily Richard his wife and young Bale lived under British law and did not answer to the Chinese. What one should remember when watching Empire Of The Sun is that since the Opium War of 1841 western powers and Japan joined them took small little nibbles out of China and in fact were granted by the weak Chinese governments special treatment in their quarters. Bale and his parents live in luxury among the millions of Chinese. Up to the age of 11 young Bale has lived in the British quarter of Shanghai and in fact has never seen the United Kingdom, his father Rupert Frazer owns a textile factory. Yet young Christian Bale turns the whole thing gradually into an adventure of sorts. Empire Of The Sun is a really imaginative story of a young boy stuck in World War II China in a truly terrible situation cut off from his parents.

I can see that a tale told from a child's point of view how it would stir the imagination of one Steven Spielberg.

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