"The Pacific" - this is not a masterpiece, but it is worth remembering

Yes, "The Pacific" will not have the poetic romantic warism of the European battlefield like "Band of Brothers". The battle with animals in the dark, muddy, hot and humid, putrid, torrential rain will naturally not keep up with the western European countryside, and the white people are like knights. The duel is beautiful - so, compared to Bastogne, it has become a beautiful paradise. In "Band of Brothers" we see a triumphant journey to victory, but in "The Pacific" we see young faces changing from bright to gloomy and leading to collapse - war is really not a fairy tale What about the book~The story of the three main characters and three main lines of the first division of the land war is also much looser than the story of the E company, so that the first few episodes make people look very nonsensical. I think, in fact, it is possible to break the coherence of its time. Take out the independent list of each episode of "Pacific", or re-edit and splicing according to the protagonist, it will be more enjoyable and tasteful~
"Pacific" is more about standing The war is portrayed at the level of one or several soldiers, so the perspective is slightly lower than that of "Band of Brothers", and there will be no typical and wonderful textbook-style tactical scenes. Frankly speaking, I basically didn't see any tricks in several battle clips, except for the devil's long live charge. Although the clothing and armament in the film are all tested to the teeth (Eugene's brother is the Second Division of the American Armor in the tenth episode, you can see that the armbands at that time did not have the embroidered characters of "Hell on Wheels" later, and the details were sturdy to the top. ), but the war scenes really can't satisfy military fans. The atmosphere is rich, the plot is insufficient, and the fight has always been chaotic—perhaps~ the battle on the Pacific island is indeed like this...
But if "Band of Brothers" brought me appreciation and joy, then "Pacific" brought me emotion and moving. I like Basilne's sturdy, fearless, dedicated and loyal, I like Lecky's smirk on the corner of his mouth, and I like the purity, decadence, madness, and confusion in Eugene's eyes - "The Pacific" is not like the oil painting of "Band of Brothers" The sophistication, like its opening title, is a charcoal sketch of the reality of any human being in that brutal fight. Here, you have to lie in a foxhole full of muddy soup with corpses full of maggots; you have to dig for mice one hole after another, every step, every night, every moment, to prevent the mice from burrowing out. Take a bite from your throat; you have to watch your beloved company commander get killed in a blink of an eye, and watch your comrades around you collapse and go crazy, even the most experienced veterans. Don't talk about blood, let alone "humanity", this is just a line drawing of bloody battles one after another in the jungle of a wild island in the South Pacific - only real things can penetrate deeply into people's hearts.
Feeling sad for the death of Eugene and his company commander, snickering for Leckie and the others for stealing army supplies, pity for Basron's heroism, thinking deeply for the light in Eugene's clear eyes, and slaughtering the devil's head for big eyes Floating and ecstatic. There's always something in every episode of "Pacific" that resonates with my heart, and every time it ends, it's rippling in my eyes.

Really, this is not a masterpiece, but it is worth remembering!

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