Of TP's three main characters, none of the opening scenes I liked, and that fact continued into the last few episodes.
It wasn't until Basilone re-shipout that I really had respect for him. When he was newly married, he told Lena how many children he would have in the future. Lena looked at him tenderly, tears welling up in his eyes.
At the end, I explained the life of the character prototype, and projected Lena's own photo and subtitles. I suddenly thought to myself that if it was a novel story, the subtitles would probably go on to say: She never remarried. And the real Lena is full of descendants now, right?
And then the next line of subtitles came out: She never remarried... It makes
me sad to think of the half century that Lena lived alone without children.
Eugene, from a middle school kid who wants to be enlisted, to a decadent man who is deeply depressed, has taken the longest road. Compared with the fierce Basilone and Lekie, who ushered in the surrender of Japan by the hospital bed, Eugine is a young sunshine boy who went from new to old, carrying a Bible to the battlefield. People pry gold teeth in their mouths, watch Snafu throw stones into half of a dead man's skull, get up close and personal with maggot-covered skeletons in the mud, call planes to drop bombs on civilian huts, watch the whole family die, watch Japan with a rotten stomach The woman was dying and begging... There were only a few people left to accompany him through the experience, who did he turn to to confess his inner wounds?
The epilogue tells us that Eugene finally got his life back, despite the nightmares that haunted him until the day he died.
Lekie, on the contrary, this sensitive literary youth is the luckiest one. After many fierce battles, he spent the whole year in Melbourne carnival, forged deadly friendships with a few friends, went to the hospital twice, went home alive, and got back his beloved. Career, stupidly put on a uniform and go to PK with an officer at West Point, and even won the goddess Vera in his dreams... Bravo! Lekie
is not the protagonist, he likes Snafu and Hoosier. Hoosier is gentle and eye-catching! Snafu, a neurotic, psychopathic, sadistic, bloody murderer, and a smart, kind, sensitive and friendly little boy... I like him more than the protagonist, but I don't know how to comment on him, forget it. Plus the funny old man Chesty, who has been working all the way to the Korean battlefield, I don't know how much blood of my volunteer soldiers... sweat.
Finally, one more thing: Japanese soldiers, I used to think that it was because of the ugliness of our film and television works that they were so unreasonably terrifying and disgusting... Now Hollywood is taking action—ah, they are still so unreasonably terrifying and disgusting.
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