You feel dull because you didn't read the movie

Erika 2022-04-21 09:01:30

Many people say they can't watch this movie, because the plot is too boring, or there are no fierce battle scenes, not enough bullets, not enough people fighting, and occasionally interspersed with literary and artistic memories, and preaching, so, do you think , it's a bad movie.

Maybe, you just don't understand it.

First of all, all war movies are about anti-war, I don't think it's arguable. And this film actually interprets the war from the perspective of a single soldier (the fourth uncle and the surrounding soldiers).

God tells us not to kill, which is what happens in a lot of war movies. The collision of beliefs about god father, etc. with reality, the contradiction between cruel war and thirst for life, and the response to the absolute tragic reality are the theme of this film.

Just like one of the eternal topics of literature, love, also has a performance in this film, but it is a negative performance. A large number of shots and plots describe the faith and strength in the heart of a single soldier. He became stronger step by step through the memory of his wife, and finally got a news of betrayal, which is too real and too absurd.

It is meaningless to be verbose. Most of the scenes without plot are actually the life experienced by soldiers, not a heroic movie with soaring personal heroism. It is good-looking but boring.

The most beautiful scene in Guadalcan, the wind blows the meadow, the soldiers fall one by one, and the bullets are vented in secret.
Beauty and ugliness are intertwined, heaven and hell are intertwined, or in other words, hell has always existed.

In the end, the deserters coexisted friendly with the natives (symbols of nature) because of their unwillingness to kill, their memories of their wives, their comrades were killed one by one, and the belief of the protagonist (in fact, there was no protagonist in this film) gradually collapsed, and finally killed his , not a Japanese soldier with a gun, but before he died, he died.

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The Thin Red Line quotes

  • Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Rosy-fingered dawn. You're Greek, aren't you, Captain? Did you ever read Homer? We read Homer at the Point. In Greek.

  • Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: [voice over] Shut up in a tomb. Can't lift the lid. Playing a role I never concieved.