Seeing and Knowing: The Significance of This War

Electa 2022-04-20 09:02:18

The movie "They Don't Grow Old" is more like a documentary than a war movie. From the perspective of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War, the movie uses narration by a large number of witnesses. People describe the war, which was considered "pointless" at the time. All the scenes in the movie are real scenes at that time. It is not so attractive that the real battlefield scenes are more attractive. It is better to say that I want to see the people who lived at that time. Everyone is actually the same age as themselves. They are all in response to the country's request to join the army with enthusiasm, then go abroad to fight, and finally show a deep disgust for the battlefield. Of course, the movie has no lack of infiltration of the Western value system, but except for these, you can see the insignificance of human beings, in the face of bullets. , In front of the planes and cannons, how insignificant human beings are. It is mentioned more than once in the film that the person who was chatting and laughing with you just now was taken away in a blink of an eye, and the dead comrades were not buried until their bodies turned black. ... these are the most real battlefields, but when you see the people in these battles, which one is not a green face, now all the veterans who participated in the First World War are deceased, but we we start from them The process of reflection and learning has just begun, what does this film tell people about war? And what did the war bring to people? Although World War I ended for a hundred years, the thought he brought to people is far from over...

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  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.