If you can stomach such horrendous violence, then I'd almost call it necessary to watch this film if you want to know just how evil human beings can become when there's power going into the wrong hands.
Men Behind the Sun is shot in an emotionless documentary-style fashion. It contains bits & pieces of music here and there to fill in the spot, but music is very rare. Instead we are watching these men discussing their callous toned conversations on what experiments to conduct on living, breathing human beings.
The unit is led by one of the most repugnant and downright evil people to ever hold some sort of prestige and supremacy in the 20th century. He justified his terror by convincing scientists and doctors that the Chinese captives were 'logs for burning' and that it was fundamental that they were used for chemical weapon research. We all know this to not be true and that this man wanted to witness, participate and beget suffering and domination through dehumanization and bloodlust.
While I won't give any scenes away, I will say that it is very realistic and gruesome. The things they show were things that these people did, so don't think that this is an exploitation flick, but a team of filmmakers that wanted to showcase this to the people responsible and that they won't hold back on the details.
No tension, no scares. Every victim is not overshadowed or dumbed down to make you comfortable. The movie reminds us that they are humans. Most importantly, it's a reminder that human beings should feel shame for this and that we should never under any circumstances allow this to occur if we have the power.
Men Behind the Sun is shot in an emotionless documentary-style fashion. It contains bits & pieces of music here and there to fill in the spot, but music is very rare. Instead we are watching these men discussing their callous toned conversations on what experiments to conduct on living, breathing human beings.
The unit is led by one of the most repugnant and downright evil people to ever hold some sort of prestige and supremacy in the 20th century. He justified his terror by convincing scientists and doctors that the Chinese captives were 'logs for burning' and that it was fundamental that they were used for chemical weapon research. We all know this to not be true and that this man wanted to witness, participate and beget suffering and domination through dehumanization and bloodlust.
While I won't give any scenes away, I will say that it is very realistic and gruesome. The things they show were things that these people did, so don't think that this is an exploitation flick, but a team of filmmakers that wanted to showcase this to the people responsible and that they won't hold back on the details.
No tension, no scares. Every victim is not overshadowed or dumbed down to make you comfortable. The movie reminds us that they are humans. Most importantly, it's a reminder that human beings should feel shame for this and that we should never under any circumstances allow this to occur if we have the power.