The war broke the tranquility of the pastoral, turning the rural horse Joy into a warhorse, displaced among all sides of the war. War does not take into account the life and death of animals, nor does it take into account the life and death of people. Joey has lost his best friend, the dark horse, Albert has lost his best friend David, and the old French man has lost his granddaughter. As the old man said at the end of the film: "The war took everything from everyone." The film always has a happy ending. Albert and Joey survived the war, finally met, and met each other. Back home. But how many young people actually have their bones buried in a foreign land.
The Battle of the Somme in which Albert participated was historically known as the "Somme Meat Grinder", with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides every day. Hundreds of thousands of unnamed corpses built the war between the British king and the German emperor. The soldiers were reluctant to fight. In order to rescue a horse in front of the two armies, the British soldiers and the German soldiers worked together, but when they parted, they would shoot each other again.
When I was young, after reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", and after reading a few unrestrained poems, I also dreamed of traversing the battlefield and making achievements. When I was in high school military training, I was shooting live ammunition for the first time. I suddenly realized that this thing would hurt and kill people. From now on, I am not so naive.
"It's better to be a centurion than a scholar." "Huangsha wears golden armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan won't be repaid in the end." "The sound of the iron drum at the top of the city is still vibrating, and the blood of the golden knife in the box is still dry." These prides are soaring to the sky His poems were all written by literati. The literati did not know the cruelty of the war. When the An-Shi Rebellion came, they sighed at the pain of the "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells".
War video games are particularly popular now. Whether they are ancient or modern, they are all for the purpose of conquest. The life and death of soldiers are just numbers on the computer. No body was seen, no blood was smelled, and no Li Min's cries were heard. There are many hot-blooded young people on the Internet who are shouting with murderous intent to pacify this one today and destroy that tomorrow, but they have never seen a war.
For the initiator of the war, war is nothing but victory and defeat. It is to fill the gaps of their desires with the corpses of soldiers and to achieve the prestige of famous generals. But for ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, it is life and death, and the family is destroyed. Every young life lost is a tragedy for a family.
The rulers of the director's homeland of War Horse should be inspired by it, but apparently they won't. Once the bones in the jungles of Southeast Asia will not let them put down the footsteps of conquest. In ten years, they have fought two wars, and now it's not like the first war, the number of casualties is in the thousands, so the war is child's play, but for every coffin covered with the flag, it is still a family tragedy . At the same time, it is also a tragedy for the common people of the "enemy country", because they are even more miserable.
In order to promote their universal values, they also want to use force against countries thousands of miles away, and they want to stop those disobedient countries, and they also try to prevent the reunification of a great country. Anyway, they don't have to face a hail of bullets.
Some wars must be fought, such as the Anti-Japanese War in China, the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, and the anti-fascist war in the world. These are just wars, but in the thousands of years of human history, unjust wars have accounted for the majority most.
Warhorse Joey finally survived and returned home, luckily -- but that's what the writer wrote.
The war horse neighs and never fights again.
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