War cannot be reconsidered by rethinking the battlefield

Ivy 2022-04-19 09:01:30

When making a movie about the battlefield, if you don’t care about the reasons for the war, don’t discuss the results of the war, and only focus on the killings on the battlefield—isn’t this kind of reflection a little superficial? Or can only such reflection reach a certain depth?

The battlefield is always cruel, inhuman, and dehumanizing, that is, people kill people. This in itself is not a reason to deny war - maybe in theory, but the logic of reality is not like that.

War-against-war-war—there is no conclusion, and in short, I am pessimistic about these things. The only optimistic possibility is that the way of war is a little more civilized. For example, there are few scenes of bayonets fighting bayonets, but instead aircraft cannons or nuclear weapons - no, is this more civilized or more barbaric?

If you talk nonsense, even if you are emotional, this is actually just a movie.

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The Thin Red Line quotes

  • Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin'.

  • First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Everything a lie... Everything you hear, everything you see... So much to spew out... They just keep coming, one after another... You're in a box... A moving box... They want you dead, or in their lie. Only one thing a man can do - find something that's his, and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack; a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours.