If " The Hurt Locker " expresses the danger and fear of frontline soldiers in a realistic way, then "Restrepo" goes one step further, because it is reality and it truly records everything that happened on the battlefield. In this film, you can hear the conversations of these soldiers, watch their dangerous patrols, and you can understand that they are forced to complete their missions with limited resources. It is no longer an overwhelming force advantage in a frontal large-scale combat situation. They are under-equipped, exhausted, and dangerously isolated and attacked. Here, you can feel the cruelty of the real war and the fear and helplessness of the participants. Just as the directors expressed their sympathy for the soldiers in the scene, they were always worried when they witnessed their best friends sacrifice in front of them. Killed in a cold gun. The director went deep into the lives of the soldiers, showing a full range of details of battlefield life. It is this kind of battlefield situation that may have a deep sense of substitution for the audience , allowing people to experience the taste and perhaps watch it. After that, you will have a new experience and a new understanding of war.
Restrepo A real war experience
2022-01-14 08:02
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Joshua McDonough: They're gathering intel right now, basically, on how to deal with us because they haven't - - there's no real research or intel on how to treat us right now because they haven't had to deal with people like us since WWII and Vietnam, you know, dealing with guys that are coming back from 15 month deployments with as much fighting, you know, as we went through.