Figure 1.--"Empire of the Sun" opens in Shanghai just before Pearl Harbor. Jim leads a privlidged life as part of the English colonial community. Here we see him singing with his school choir. |
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The film begins with Jim as a smug little British schoolboy. He sings in the school choir. We see Jim in the Choir The first pic is Jim performing in the choir at the start of the movie. He is pictured as an intelligent, dreamy child lehding a privileged life. That ends suddenly when the Japanese strike. An only child, he is separated from his parents when the Japanese seize the city and round up the Europeans. He almost starves as the Japanese refuse to take him prisoner until two disreputable Americans he becomes attached to are captured. In the internment camp Jim eventually gives up on the British who have standards, but are hapless and weak. He is drawn to the Americans, a ratty bunch who know how to survive. Jim is intragued with planes and there is a Japanese air base near the concentration camp. Apparently the Japanese soldiers at the air base tolerated him even though he was not allowed to leave the camp here he was confined. There he makes feiends with a Japanese youth. Jim's Japanese friend is killed near the end of the film.
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