The shady scene before the film begins is a series of rapid breathing sounds that illustrate the tone of the film: tension.
But what is interesting is that the rhythm of this film is not fast, but at the same time it can bring enough tension to the audience, which is what I think is very good in this film.
This film is different from other World War II movies. The director chooses to examine the scars left after the war from different perspectives, as if to explain: No matter who it is, the war leaves all the pain, and no one really wins the battle. In the face of war, everyone loses.
Some clues can also be seen from the tone of this film. The tone of the whole film is cold, giving people a feeling of hopelessness; and the picture of the whole film is very attractive to me, whether it is the framing or the light, it gives people a very comfortable feeling Although it is a film with war as the theme, it can't be seen on the screen at all; in a certain way, it actually gave me the illusion of "silent shouting".
The most impressive part was the scene where the boys entered the house one by one to defuse the bombs in less than 10 minutes of the opening scene, which was really shocking.
The director faithfully filmed one boy after another entering the house, kneeling on the ground and starting to dismantle the mines, and then the camera turned to the boys waiting outside the scene. This whole process was almost silent, everyone was waiting for something, I Likewise, waiting for the boy to come out of the door safely, to lay down the dismantled mine, or to make a loud bang.
This whole process is very long, but the emotional tension in it has not been weakened by the repeated shots. Instead, the audience has more expectations, perhaps expecting that this "additional war" can have different results.
In addition, the film presents the repeated emotions of the Master Chief, which is also particularly impressive to me.
At the beginning, he was also extremely disgusted with these German juvenile soldiers. With an order, he asked the boys to quickly carry out the task of dismantling landmines, regardless of whether the boys were hungry or not, of course, they didn't even care about their lives, because they were enemies.
As time passed, the Master Chief and the boys also developed feelings, and the conflicting emotions also made the Master Chief's mood capricious. After all, he was facing a group of enemies, but why is the hatred left by the war caused by What are these boys going to take on?
The emotional ups and downs of the Master Chief, just like those innocent people who were persecuted by the war, cannot be easily eliminated in the face of the impact of the war: for them, it is difficult to forgive the world, let go It's harder to be yourself.
This film tells the story in a very "realistic" way. After all, this is a story that really happened, but at the same time, it is also a very painful setting for the audience: those who have dreams are dead.
While watching the movie, I noticed that the director spent a lot of space explaining the dreams of the boys.
In fact, the future the boys are planning is not a so-called "dream", they just hope to go back to their hometown quickly and live an ordinary life.
But maybe this is the reason why the war is cruel. Those children who enthusiastically stated their future plans have no chance to realize those ordinary life plans; , they honestly searched for the remaining mines without saying a word, and never thought that they could go back: there is no hope, and no disappointment.
The director really gave the audience a slap in the face, at least that slap was so loud that I almost cried.
So for the ending, I can't make an accurate conclusion: is it a happy ending? or sad ending?
Or, in fact, there is no so-called good or bad, the director is just stating a "fact".
What I want to mention in particular is the sound processing of this film, which I like very much.
Especially the director's way of dealing with the "landmine explosion": in this film, you can find that the director tells this story about war in an almost elegant way.
Both the picture and the sound are very different from ordinary war films. The picture is clean and tidy, and there is no violent gunfire or wailing in the sound. The director seems to be saying this in a mood similar to "desperate". An emotional story.
In the film, the sound of the landmine explosion is not very violent, but a little closer to the silent way of expression: it feels like a kind of despair, a kind of silent protest.
And the matching of the ending song is also very good, with a little excitement in the calm melody: it seems to be silently accusing something.
The impact of the war is probably the cry of despair.
I really like the picture of this film, and the story itself is worth watching. He led me to look at the war from a completely different perspective; and although the film has many characters, it may not be clear to understand each character (or even Confused), but the overall performance I like very much, it is a work worth watching, especially the director deeply depicts the complex mood of the character, such tension and fear are really conveyed to the audience by the screen, I highly recommend Let's go and have a look.
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