Cherish the present

Novella 2022-04-21 09:03:04

This should be a documentary. It perfectly restores World War I, a war full of interests. When the German Junker nobles were dissatisfied with their existing interests, the bourgeois chaebols of Britain and France wanted to protect their original interests, and then War broke out.

The saddest thing is the dead and wounded Soldier. As dictated in the movie, they don't even know what they are fighting for.

Perhaps only people who have experienced war can understand its cruelty and how hard-won peace is. We can only covet one-sided wars through screen books.

Cherish the moment, we should be grateful that we can watch football games, drink beer...and everything in peacetime.

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  • Ruby 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    History is never black and white, black and white are only the machines we use to record; when black and white are restored to color, the sense of distance imposed by the machine disappears. Yesterday I just talked about why I don’t like to watch war movies, especially those about World War I and World War II, because the big battle scenes in these movies are always full of fuzzy faces. It or they are too far away from my experience. I rarely make movies. The middle character or situation really moved. But this movie touched me deeply. Apart from the technical “gimmicks”, its anti-war angle is also very soft. The historical materials selected are not just news-style. More often, the archive images are like family videos. With various details in oral history, the content it presents becomes private and intimate-it seems to have no protagonist and no name, but each face is more vivid than any fictional character in any drama. In the picture, apple plum jam, poppies all over the floor and blood of fallen soldiers are all red.

  • Kailyn 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    One hundred years after the end of World War I, the documentary world has really lost its blood, but in the comments, I don’t know the bullshit, and "the museum where no one cares." The World War I is really one of the most popular themes of European museums, okay? Since World War I in 14 years, there are so many special exhibitions from various countries in the century. Tell you what is crowded

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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.