In the thousands of years of recorded human history, there has been no war. There are only 26 days. War has always been a lingering nightmare for mankind, not here, but in a foreign country.
At the beginning, a grand station wagon full of European and American tourists drove into the Jewish settlement in Israel in 1956. At the end of the film, Rachel returned to reality from her memory, and she and her husband took their two children and walked into their settlement. The evening light was warm and the backs of the family were warm. What broke the silence was the brake sound of the car turning sharply. In an instant, a military vehicle entered the picture and suddenly stopped at the gate of the camp, while the Rachel family did not even change their gait. The sound of gunfire was sporadic. Inside the wire mesh fence of the camp subway and on the watchtower, soldiers with guns took their places one after another. The film came to an abrupt end with the sound of gunfire.
This film does not attempt to deliberately explore the reasons and human nature behind the war, but it brings the truth to the audience without a trace. Greed devours the kindness in human nature again and again, and the shadow of war has been hovering around the protagonist and human society.
The genius of the director and the actors is to use all means to develop the story to mobilize the audience, and to exclude one by one the extravagant thoughts beyond the meaning of the story to be interpreted. The calm and almost cold scene, even if it shows eroticism, will not arouse the original desire of the audience, neither sympathetic nor provocative, exaggerating human nature in the ruthless, just like the heroine's resolute mentality, living coldly and hard , is dignity and wisdom.
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