Empire of the Son: Boy held in Bush’s prison camp

[Democrats_win]

In the 1987 Steven Spielberg World War two film, Empire of the Sun an English boy is placed in a Japanese prison camp along with many other English families living in occupied China. The title of the film is meant to mock the Japanese empire because despite all their power, they are unable to take care of this innocent boy. The physical conditions of the prison camp are awful.

Amy Goodman of Democracynow.org reports: “Majid and his nine-year old son Kevin are Iranian immigrants currently being held at the Hutto detention center (in Texas). They’ve been forcibly detained since their plane made an emergency landing in Puerto Rico as they made their way to Canada. Kevin says: ‘I want to be free. I want to go outside. I want to go home to Canada’ .” Kevin is a Canadian citizen while his parents have been living in Canada as political refugees since they would face immediate arrest and torture of they returned to Iran. Kevin and his family are facing harsh conditions in Bush’s prison, which is a privately run detention facility.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1532252

They have been held for 29 days. "Kevin is nine years old. He's a Canadian citizen, came from Iran with his parents. They were flying over the United States, when the plane had to land in Puerto Rico because a passenger had a heart attack, and when they landed, the Majid family -- we're not using their real name -- was taken off the flight."

”Bush’s “great” empire is so inhumane and paranoid that they treat a little innocent boy as a threat. He is trapped in Bush's war on innocent people.

Reference on Steven Spielberg's film, Empire of the Sun
http://imdb.com/title/tt0092965/

Edit: added quotation marks in paragraph below URL

[Little Wing]

1. I'd never considered the film's title to be mocking the Japanese

:shrug:

[Democrats_win]

2. I can see your point. But to me it seems that way. Like the "Great" Gatsby

My example: "Great" is somewhat mocking of Gatsby because he isn't that great.

Empire of the Sun is based on the novel (I didn't read it.)

Ballard, J.G. Empire Of The Sun (1984) New York City: Pocket Books, 1985,

[Little Wing]

3. The Sun also sets.

I still think it's a terrific movie, and it's interesting to see that the child in the movie eventually grew up to be Batman. :)

( Christian Bale )