God film, the reasons for the battle of Midway are skillfully described throughout, the US oil embargo on Japan - the attack on Pearl Harbor - the failure of the Enterprise to find the Japanese mobile fleet - the retaliatory bombing of the Marshall Islands by the naval aviation - the army Aviation retaliatory bombing of Tokyo - Battle of the Coral Sea - Battle of Midway. In addition, the extraordinarily important intelligence department runs through the whole film.
The quality of many shots is impressive. For example, the few seconds describing the Battle of the Coral Sea are absolutely incredible - the burning aircraft carrier Lexington is on the sea and about to sink. The camera slowly zooms out, Shanshan. The powerlessness and resulting anger of the late-arriving USS Enterprise crew looking at the Lexington easily mobilized the audience;
After bombing the Japanese naval anchorage in the Marshall Islands, when the Japanese HNA bombers counterattacked the US aircraft carrier formation, the four-mounted 28mm "Chicago Piano" anti-aircraft guns on the US warship appeared in the camera. This is an unprecedented rigorous textual research in the history of movies. The 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun was only installed;
The Marine Corps SBD-3 dive bomber pilots taking off from Midway and the Navy SBD-3 pilots taking off from the aircraft carrier formation in the later stages used glide bombing and dive bombing respectively.
There are many more such lenses.
However, the biggest problem with this film is that there are not enough subtitles to explain the plot. For example, the office where Nimitz was appointed as the commander of the Pacific Fleet belonged to the then Secretary of the Navy, Ernest King, who was also President Roosevelt. personal friend; in the few seconds of the battle of the Coral Sea, the burning aircraft carrier Lexington was not marked with subtitles, and if you did not know the history, you would be confused about the burning ship; McCluskey's SBDs killed plus The dive-bomber squadron that attacked the Soryu at the same time as the carrier He belonged to the Yorktown aircraft carrier. Here I have to praise the director again - historically, the dive bombers of the USS Enterprise were messy, while the VB-3 squadron of the USS Yorktown trained with Su, the deadly bombing of the aircraft carrier Canglong in a textbook-like formation - and these details are completely expressed by the director, but there are no subtitles, if you don't understand this history, you will not notice these high Quality details.
Although there are still some mistakes in details - for example, there are several Yamato-class battleships in the scene of the Shijima anchorage in Hiroshima Bay, which is not in line with history - but the shortcomings are not hidden, and this film is worthy of the title of a masterpiece.
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