It has been about 10 years since the first time I watched the Pacific War. I went back and relived it during the epidemic. I feel that this drama is really no worse than Brotherhood.
From the perspective of TV drama, the Pacific War has inherent shortcomings compared with the Company of Brothers. The Company of Brothers tells a relatively continuous story after the landing of the same company in Normandy: from the training camp in the United States, to France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and finally Ends in Austria. Along the way, the characters are clear, and the time span is not large, from 43 to 45 years. The real combat began on the June 1944 landing day. So the relationship between the characters is easy to understand, just like classical music. The Pacific War itself is more complicated, island-hopping tactics run around, Guadalcan, Australia, Peleliu, Pauwu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the geographical span is far beyond the European war battlefield. In terms of character relationships, there are not only the infantry of the First Marine Division, but also the story line of the mortar team. Some of them returned to China after being injured, and some returned to China by rotation. The story is indeed relatively broken.
But most important was the brutality of the Pacific War itself. It's not that the European battlefield is not cruel, it's just that the Japanese devils are more like a medieval army with modern weapons. They would rather die than surrender, and do whatever they can, trampling on the value of life to the point of heinous. This may be the dual result of the different cultural backgrounds of eastern nations and the brainwashing of Japanese militarism. Those uncomfortable faces are actually far less than one ten thousandth of the cruelty on the real battlefield. The Japanese devils must be crazy, but the American soldiers are also crazy in the end.
These straight, sheer gore that is disgusting. It is to tell the audience as much as possible within the range that can be broadcast, what war really is.
What exactly is war? Different races of human beings hurt each other for various factors. Politicians who are basically getting old are sending large numbers of innocent young people to die. The common people on both sides paid for the most absurd behavior in human society.
Remove these intuitive pictures and think about it, which war from ancient times to the present has not been the same. In addition to the smoky battlefield in Europe, 6 million Jewish civilians were killed like an assembly line in concentration camps. Isn’t this behavior even more disgusting. I remember the year before last at the Tel Aviv Holocaust Memorial Hall. There was a special venue for the children who died. The room was dark, and I could only see the way forward. There were shining stars all around, and each shining star represented a victim. Children, the stars in the sky are the only source of light in that house, and the child's voice repeats the names of some of the victims in a loop, and the eyes can't help but get wet.
I remember reading a sentence that was probably like this: Even the victor of the war, a part of him will die forever. I think the war in the Pacific was well done, and in some ways it surpassed Brotherhood. Her reflections on war and her expression of the inner torture of war participants are actually the same in every war.
The epidemic is not over yet this year, and the fight against the epidemic is like a war. However, in such a special period, the world is still full of wars, especially our border guards who died for the country. I hate the Indian government, I hate Indian politicians, but I also pity those cannon fodder who sacrificed for Indian politicians in vain. I really hope that human beings can join hands and turn the target of war into the common enemy of mankind.
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