The comedy film Father and Son's Car（1990）tries to construct a national image of dignity and peace by means of reawaking the memory of Japanese military invasion into China in the audience's mind. On the other hand，the film shows a crisis for the memory due to the influences of commercialization and consumerism. Furthermore，the form of comedy for the film also has a negative influence on the narration of traumatic memory. A further inquiry into representations of the traumatic memory about Japanese invasion in the cultural field will expose the conflicting forces in them and help us consider how to tell this traumatic history in the construction of national image.