ten-episode TV series
1.
This film was probably made ten years after Brotherhood. Not the same.
There's even a close-up of brothers who have broken feet in a row. This pacific has become the norm (crossing the airport in the sixth episode)
, and it has become the background. In fact, the director treats these scenes with a sense of normalcy. As a whole, it seems that the Pacific Ocean is not as bloody
as Brothers, but it is actually more real, more plain, and more earthy. The filming has gone a step further, and the battle scenes are more
pristine and realistic (no more dazzling).
It feels that the island-by-island battle in the Pacific is much more brutal and cruel than the U.S. military's European battlefield.
One reason is that the Pacific battlefield is more difficult (the weather is hot and humid, which is much more uncomfortable than the winter in continental Europe and France
); the other is the virtue of fighting, after all, they are all white Protestants, and there is mutual understanding, both sides fight or stay. There is
room for it (fighting within the confines of civilization), and the United States is completely clueless about the Japanese in the East, from language, religion
and culture to the strange characteristics displayed on the battlefield (not afraid of death, never dying, and never surrender even if defeated). ) are
incomprehensible (probably in the minds of the marines, the Japanese army is similar to the beast), after tearing off the mask of civilization, what remains is cruelty and
ugliness.
2.
Many people think that Brotherhood is better, because there are still many feelings about human nature; while the Pacific is bland and boring ("The
characters are thin, the plot is incoherent, the war scenes are stingy, the dialogue lacks humor, and it is useless."). This is
because the war intensity of the Brotherhood still has aesthetic value (such as tragic and solemn, etc.), and how many soldiers in the Brotherhood still have the
mood to think about human nature on the battlefield; while in the Pacific Ocean, the soldiers only have animal nature-
(Slight spoilers below )
For example, in episode 6, the protagonists cross the airport and stay overnight at the foot of the mountain. A soldier (they don't know each other) suddenly becomes hysterical
. Because he is afraid of revealing his target, everyone is shocked and tries to control the out of control;
The four of them could only hold down their bodies, and the man was still screaming, so one of them picked up a shovel and opened a ladle for the man. At dawn, the superiors
were very angry when they saw the dead soldier. Eugene, the protagonist, said: Either he died, or we died; the supporting role continued: Eugene was right.
As for their own people, it is not difficult to guess how they deal with the enemy: some soldiers like to pry
gold teeth in the mouths of dead Japanese soldiers. A soldier was trying to cut the mouth of a dead Japanese with a knife (for prying his teeth), and the Japanese suddenly woke
up and pushed the marines with both hands. , and
then cut the mouth (maybe more exciting). The protagonist said: put him out of misery; the marine replied: fuck
off!
Don't think this is a pervert. It's even more exciting in the seventh episode. A Japanese soldier was killed by an explosion, kneeling on the ground, shrapnel above his
forehead
was cut off, and the rest of his head became a large bowl-like container, full of blood and brain; Throwing in the bowl, blood and brains splashed everywhere (everyone
has seen children throwing stones into the lake when they have nothing to do). So the supporting role was relaxed physically and mentally.
The above scenes are impossible to appear in Brotherhood (the concentration camp episode is more emotional); in the Pacific
, this emotional fluctuation has disappeared in front of the director's camera - with it, people spontaneously give Of all the
meanings and feelings of war, the only thing left is the war itself.
3.
Brothers in the battle scene still have the pursuit of aesthetic consciousness (the cruel aesthetic is a special kind of beauty), and in the Pacific Ocean
It's real and natural (ugly). This is similar to the difference between the godfather and good fellas, who are also gangster films. More people like the
godfather-style gangster than the good-buddy-style gangster, because there is still a bit of romance in it.
To sum up in one sentence, the drama Pacific is a war after tearing away the aesthetics and the meaning given to it, and the rest is more ugly,
so we don't quite accept it.
Sad Pacific.
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