A two-and-a-half-hour "War Horse" is like an ups and downs movement. The exciting plot begins with the birth of Joey, the colt. The legendary fate between it and Albie echoes the beginning and end of the plot, from fate to fate. When it comes to their fate-destined reunion, they have gone through too much, just as the phrase "war robs everyone of everything" is constantly said from different characters in the film. In the days when Joey and Albie were separated, Joey's owners changed several times, but fortunately they were all kind, handsome and mighty British officers, fraternal German soldiers, beautiful and kind French grandsons, and German soldiers who cherished good horses. , no matter what their roles in the war are, but they take care of Joey to the best of their ability, and it is precisely because of their different identities that Joey's fate also ebbs and flows, and he can't help feeling that the war has changed everything. There is no set number, and the sense of belonging, security, and existence appear in the smoke of gunpowder.
Through the perspective of a horse, the film not only shows the cruelty of war, but also meticulously describes the moving emotions between various relationships, whether it is between people and horses, or between people, or between horses and horses. The feelings between them are all just right, the tears are touched from time to time in the smooth progress of the film, and Lao Si's values are gradually revealed in the tears of the audience - there is no winner in the war, everyone is a loser By. The artillery-fired war is ruthless, but the spread of emotion is silent. This emotional climax is shown by Lao Si in an extremely playful but humorous way. On the battlefield, German and British soldiers cut the barbed wire to rescue them. Joey is the darkest humorous, most thought-provoking and most touching scene in the whole film. Not only is he amazed at the extraordinary and wonderful idea of this "movie dream weaver", but the beauty of the mountain can no longer be limited to the steepness. Ling Lie can also be a piece of quiet blue water and blue sky.
In addition to the overall shocking effect of the film, several seemingly bland detailed descriptions give people a kind of epiphany, and they also have a new feeling about the bravery of life. The first act takes place when Joey and Albie work together to create the first miracle of their lives, completing what everyone thought was impossible. As they fix their horses, Albie's mother tells him about his father's past on the battlefield. Albie changed his views on his father because of the glory of the past, and even hoped that one day he could make great achievements on the battlefield like his father. The mother reminded: "Think about how brave your father was to refuse to be proud of it? … He refused to look back on the glory brought by the war, and resolutely returned to life and took up the responsibility of the family." In the second scene, when the little French girl asked her grandfather why she could not sacrifice for the war as bravely as her parents, the farmer grandfather was very angry. Calmly: "Maybe bravery has a different expression. The French carrier pigeon is released from the front and then has to fly over the entire battlefield, over so much pain and fear, and can never look down, must look forward, or it will come Without home, is there anything braver than this?" These two interpretations of bravery make people understand that war is cruel, and returning home is the most important thing. At the end of the film, the family reunites in the beautiful farm pastoral scenery. The scene has become the sublimation of the film. This is similar to Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou", "If the husband rides the heaven and the earth, and fights against the six qi, if he travels endlessly, will he be treated badly?" Seeing through everything, returning to the source, and letting nature come to an epiphany, I just hope that in time, I can cultivate and reach the realm of "the perfect man has no self, gods and men have no merit, and saints have no name".
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