Why does war exist

Caden 2022-04-20 09:02:18

Why does war exist, and whether war has value. This is a question repeatedly raised by the veterans in the play, and it is also a question that puzzles me.

soldiers before the war

Soldiers often have a sense of mission to defend their homeland and the country, and on the battlefield they even have a great spirit of sacrifice for others.

Of course they were not born soldiers, most of them lived the same age as ordinary children before leaving their hometown, with parents and siblings.

Military life has changed the strict life of their troops, and the repetition of mechanical troops has made them "learn" to obey orders, and defending their homeland is their belief and mission. This is a place where a person can be changed.

I have also thought about becoming a soldier. Their regular and quick action style is what I yearn for. Those who have experienced military life have kept that belief deep in their hearts.

soldiers on the battlefield

become like an animal to kill
Most German soldiers don't care who wins, most are thinking, I've had enough
The war is over, this is the dullest moment of our lives
I still can't understand why wars exist, I think history will eventually prove that these are worthless
I don't think we are heroes

The cruelty of war made them think about the meaning of war, and their own meaning.

post-war soldier

The war is over, this is the dullest moment of our lives
We seem redundant, our emotions dry up
Our world is cut off from civilians, people can't understand

The fighting beliefs that had always encouraged them to move forward disappeared, and they didn’t know why.

Those who have experienced the battlefield are completely different from the world that the commoners have seen, and the world view and values ​​are divided.

There's a lot more to discover in the documentary.

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  • Violet 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Although the narration is so full that it is already driving people crazy, after thinking about it, I still think that I should give it five stars. This is really an unprecedented war daily life that no film will talk about (not to mention the trenches alone will blow most of the World War I films... and finally understand the weapons and equipment such as mines, guns, tanks, etc. ...), and this is the ultimate dream of a military nerd, and this is the right use of technology, a huge job of sound and color, yet so understated that it's hard to notice. The 3D design also basically only uses the positive parallax area, but the depth is done quite well, and the effect is to form a kind of "peeping" (and, looking at 2D is equal to not seeing!). Discuss the sound-picture relationship, and the rather important text of "Film as archive/found footage".

  • Tiana 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    The restoration is perfect, the coloring part is very silent, "they are no longer getting old", the childish smile in front of the camera and the corpses on the battlefield are edited to be extremely impactful; the additional narration uses the old veterans. The perspective restores how to survive in extremely harsh environments, how to overcome the fear of fear itself under the dual physical and psychological torture, how to actually feel the breath of death with the flesh and blood, and even have the ups and downs of the drama Immerse yourself, open a new mode of repair. From the heart of fist and fist that I cherished at the beginning, to the numbness and complete loss of his goal, all kinds of psychological torture experienced, the difficulties and the unexperienced, became the "superfluous person" in the era of peace, adding another cruel tragic and lonely and desolate.

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They Shall Not Grow Old quotes

  • 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.