The lasting image of young Christian Bale saluting to the young Japanese pilot, or vice versa, has been annoying me for years.

Spielberg's and Lucas' love for the Japanese was fetish. As far as I remember EotS didn't depict the horror of sufferings in both China and Japan, but a whitewashed image of the Japanese armed force - escalated by a hopeful Japanese young man at the end who, in a broader perspective, symbolized the rebuilding of Japan. However, the image nearly suggested that the war crimes in China had never happened and only brave, courageous individuals had led the war to the light - a young Japanese pilot who had big dreams like the early 20th-century Americans.

Such escalation drew a parallel between post-war Japan and America, and underneath the sugarcoating the alienation of China on the same horizon.

The movie alienated Spielberg from his efforts in describing The Holocaust in Schindler's List. Sympathizing with Japan in EotS while doing the same for the Jews in SL contradict what the basics of morality address.