After watching it, I realized that this movie was actually directed by Mr. Eastwood. It is hard to imagine that such a belligerent white American would make such an anti-war movie. Although in the movie, Americans still die very tragically, while Japanese still die very wretched. But the movie seems to want to tell us that war only creates murderers and survivors. The so-called hero is just a propaganda tool of the media and the government, so that we can donate generously to support some righteousness that ordinary people don't understand at all, and make a small man make a fortune in war.
The film revolves around the experiences of several ordinary American soldiers who raised the American flag on the island during the Battle of Iwo Jima. These originally unknown Marines were pulled back home because of such an incident as important Publicity figure, speaking nationally in the United States. The survivors of these brutal battles, carefully packaged as heroes, helped the U.S. government sell war bonds. After the modern financial industry was created, whichever country has more access to capital and is more capable of financing will win the final war. The U.S. military's unique idea of building the army makes them less advocating for the art of war, that is, they like to use their advantageous manufacturing industry to crush their opponents. In the face of absolute superiority, no matter how superb combat skills are, it has become a joke.
So once the U.S. war machine starts, the top concern is where the military spending will come from. One by one, the fighting heroes tell the people in the rear through their own personal experiences that we are winning the war, but your generosity can help us win the war faster. As everyone knows, a fighting hero is also a murderer. The cruelty of modern warfare may only be best understood by those who have experienced it firsthand. In front of a 400mm caliber cannon, a few hundred kilograms of high-explosive bombs, and a big killer equivalent to tens of millions of tons of TNT. Humans are so small, so fragile, and so helpless.
After the Second World War, such great-power wars with irreversible consequences basically disappeared. As for whether it will happen again, we cannot predict. From the perspective of the main theme propaganda, our current theme movie is still at the stage of "General Patton" in the United States in 1970. A good war movie should teach the younger generation the concept of war. After all, those who die in battle will never come back. But a good war movie also needs to tell our young people not to forget the war, not to forget the threat, and not to underestimate the enemy's aggressive ambitions against us. In this regard, perhaps our war movies still have a long way to go, but it seems that there is not much time left for us.
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