Memories of the battlefield under the cloak of animation. The painting style is unique, rough and vivid, and the details are realistic, full of dark humor and cult ridicule, and the slightly insufficient number of frames brings a sense of absurdity. It depicts the memories of the battlefield regained by veterans and the carnage that was subconsciously erased. Memories are mixed with falsehood and reality, more than a daydream, and LSDtrip is appropriate (the analogy in the film) - especially the scene where the soldiers floating in the sea seem to be summoned by some force, and the zombies walk towards the high-rise urban buildings in the dark night. , like a sacred religious ceremony, strange and shocking.
The link related to the title of the film is a crazy soldier holding a machine gun in the hail of bullets, accompanied by classical dance music and harsh gunfire. Weird dance, before human beings are swallowed up by the primitive killing nature, the civilization's soul shines back.
The actual footage inserted at the end of the film contrasts sharply with the dynamic animation scenes. In the animation, the soldiers who are sometimes numb and sometimes mad, facing the grieving refugees looking for the bodies of their relatives, shake violently, like waking up from a big dream.
Fearlessness, ease, carnival, shock, indifference, grief, fear, forgetfulness...—all these mixed memories may really be Nanke's dream.
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