"War Horse", warmth can move people's hearts

When we walked into the movie theater, we were ready to stare silently at the big screen in front of us for about two hours in a dimly lit room. The whole person seems to be under a spell, greedily looking at the huge rectangular light, overwhelmed by the charming scenery, the ups and downs of the plot draw the soul, and then the whole body and mind are absorbed into it without reservation, and the series of plots is like a thread. Consciousness becomes your only existence. At this point, the movie has become a magnificent dream, and your emotions will only be controlled by the plot and separated from reality. The funny and funny plot makes people laugh, and the warm and touching pictures also make people move. Crying is the ultimate catharsis of emotions, and it is also the ultimate stimulation of a movie dream to the body. I have seen many movies with the gimmick of "Prepare enough tissues", but often stand in embarrassment and goosebumps; such as "War Horse", there are very few movies that make people cry heartily.

Words like "tear-jerking" have nothing to do with War Horse. If you want to choose a label for the theme of "War Horse", the top ten keywords are at least these: anti-war, epic, romanticism, Spielberg's childlike innocence and "going home" motif, warmth, etc. For a Hollywood master director like Spielberg, who can perfectly combine business and art, it can be said that the humanistic care full of universal values ​​is rendered in spectacular epic scenes and imposing movie clips. It can be said to be a basic demand. The lack of an absolute protagonist in the film "War Horse" makes the structure of the story slightly loose, but it also makes the story itself colorful in disguise. The film uses the war horse to bring the British peasant family who raised it, the handsome and gentle British officer who first followed the war, the German soldier brother who escaped due to the family promise but was finally executed, the French old peasant and his beautiful and graceful little fairy. The granddaughter, the British and German soldiers who had a moment of friendliness to save the horse are connected in a "going home" theme thread.

The war is far more brutal than we imagined, and the director romanticizes the seeds of tenderness in every story. Spielberg's portrayal of human nature in the film is far less profound than his award-winning "Saving Private Ryan" and "Schindler's List", and the two poles of good and evil are not clear, as if everyone is loser. The ruthlessness and cruelty of war, the horror and despair of death are all weakened to a fairy tale level in the editing - the last moment is a slow-motion close-up of the face of Shiverson, and the next moment only Joey is left fast from the right side of the camera. Out... The fairytale-like handling of the war makes the film not achieve its shocking goal through the ruthless reveal of the war and the realistic methods of bloodshed, but through the emotional exchanges between the characters in each small story and Joey, to prove The existence of human warmth that transcends race and country. It is through the brewing of heart-warming emotions that the scene of "the reunion of people and horses" at the end of the film becomes so moving. The bruised Joey finally returned to Albert's side, and all the emotions brewing reached their peak at this moment.

One day in early 2012, I watched War Horse in the cinema and burst into tears. Now, in order to write this film review, I found resources from the Internet and read it again, but I can't cry a single tear again. In addition to the dream itself, the movie also pays attention to the quality of "sleep".

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