Return to glory

Wendy 2021-12-11 08:01:22

Back to glory
The story is not uncommon. A general, Irvine, who has been on the battlefield, was imprisoned due to a more serious fault. The "care" he received when he first went to jail made the general not feel the slightest dignity injury. Of course, he was able to bend and stretch. His maturity still exists, and it is a serious matter to return home as soon as possible after completing his prison life safely. Helpless prison warden Winter is a cowardly man who talks on paper and is extremely inferior. He is grudged by General Irwin's sharp judgment. The perverted prison created by his long-standing paranoid discipline policy also made General Irvine, who had a flexible bottom line, decided to copy his old business and was about to conquer the last castle—the prison. Movies with prisons as the background are not uncommon, from "Shawshank Salvation" as everyone knows to "Prison Break" which successfully brought American TV dramas to China, a prison life without dignity, no freedom, no self, and isolation from the world. , All the sanity will disappear after being forced to make absolute obedience again and again, the only fun is to watch other people of the same kind fight for trivial matters, the more bloody and the higher the tide. It’s hard to imagine what kind of abnormal thinking will be inspired by gathering a bunch of criminals with evil intentions. When the film initially showed the mode of getting along between the prisoners, it simply and rudely revealed the inexplicable worship of force by this group of militants. . The relative good meets the relative evil, the ending is not optimistic, the fragile and bluffing power-holder, the prisoner with the remaining dignity in the sand, the two opposing but unfair factions. A leader with a broken personal charm, good shows always happen. The rhythm of the first half of the movie is really slow in the same type of movie. It tells the character characteristics of each of the important characters. The slow pace of the first half wants to keep fast forward, and then it proves that many plot designs are done for the continuity of the story. Foreshadowing, fortunately, the preparation time was too long. In the end, the fierce battle between the two sides failed to bring about the hearty and hearty that it should have been. The character of each supporting role is as full as possible in this slowness, and Aguilar, who stammers only in promise, the final sacrifice has also become the root of the outbreak of the two factions. There is never a shortage of heroes in American movies, especially heroes who are alone in settling disasters. Similarly, there is no shortage of exciting speeches in American movies. The presidential speeches of "Independence Day" and "The End of the World" are repeated every time. The motivated body trembled. In "The Last Castle", General Irwin gave two speeches, one to commemorate the dead Aguilar, and one to awaken the dignity of prisoners in the cafeteria. The two speeches hardly arouse the audience. Resonance, after all, the ordinary people who understand the dignity of the military are still in the minority, and they can only look for the pride of the military who is too strange to you and me in the face of every prisoner who gradually straightens up.
In the end, the castle was finally captured by angry "villains", with the courage to look at death like home. Ironically, the stone with the name of the dead Aguilar accurately smashed the collection of Chief Winter, except for There is no other weapon display cabinet for decoration. Corresponding to the beginning of the movie, he has never been on the battlefield, and he does not understand the true meaning of war and death. So, return the weapons to the soldiers, and by the way, return the dignity to them, raise the banner that is never allowed to be turned upside down, and return to glory.

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The Last Castle quotes

  • Yates: My father was with you in Hanoi.

    Irwin: [while in his cell] What's your name?

    Yates: Yates.

    Irwin: Yates? Sam Yates?

    Yates: That's right.

    Irwin: Good man.

    Yates: Nah, he wasn't.

    Irwin: After 30 years everyone's a good man. It's the law.

  • Winter: [while in his office] See, I too share the burden of command. You may not think that I've ever set foot on a battlefield, but that's because you've never sat behind this desk. This desk! My men and I are vastly outnumbered. We spend every day behind enemy lines because, make no mistake about it, Mr. Irwin, they are the enemy! But then, I don't have to justify myself to YOU, do I, Mr. Irwin?

    Irwin: I don't know. Do you?