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Dejah 2022-04-21 09:03:04

I watched this film at station B on the evening of February 11, 2020. I watched the 1938 madman before, which was a story about World War II. And then interested in the Germans, the disputes between the British, the French, the history, and the reasons behind the Treaty of Versailles. War is disgusting. Many people are reluctant to mention it. It just feels a little ironic. In the end, many people do not hire retired soldiers. How ironic!
Forgive me, I'm just a layman. Hi Hitler, it's the belief of the Germans who lost the First World War and signed the Treaty of Versailles. My early impression of Germany was of many, many handsome and ascetic officers, as evidenced by photos of Hitler's subordinates. I just aimed at this point, watching this film, the reality is cruel, the average appearance is still very low, most of them are a little flower in the thousands of miles.
This is a picture that I couldn't help but take while watching a movie. Look, Germany, the comedy Lady Diaosi, broke my impression of Germany's strict punctuality, alas, it's all the same, after all, they're all people. Talking about the content of the movie, I think these materials are very useful for reference. I didn't expect the war to be so cruel. The thing that impressed me the most was that the British soldiers were ready to attack. After finally reaching the enemy's camp, I was blocked by barbed wire and could not move forward.
The enemy was attacked on the back and the belly, because the range of the artillery shells of their own army was not enough, and they could only hit the enemy's barbed wire. He handed his back to his comrades, only to be attacked by artillery fire. This film actually ignores many, many, sad facts, and it may be too cruel to ignore it lightly. The plague, and the Spanish flu that helped hasten the end of World War I, were not mentioned.

The advantage of documentaries is reality, allowing people to face the unknown stories behind the war. This is real, not fake. Every life has existed vividly.

The beginning of the movie is black and white, the end is also black and white, and only the middle is color. I was very uncomfortable at first. I hate watching black and white movies. There is no visual stimulation. , many details have not been seen. The narration of the movie, I don't know what the production is like behind the scenes. These narrations are carefully set up, and they are still veterans after the First World War. They stated by themselves. After all, it has been nearly 100 years. Does it really exist?

I remember the scenes of the movie, the railroad tracks, the rats in the battle fort, the rain flies, and a large number of corpses, all of which are dazzlingly presented in front of you, some too cruel and bloody, with pictures interspersed. The landmines buried by the Germans, the explosions of the bangs, the shaking of the earth, the explosion of the earth, despite the upgrade of weapons and the application of biological and chemical weapons, many soldiers are blind, they line up in long lines, shoulders on shoulders, like children, a Little by little, he was led forward, his eyes covered by a rag. When the war is not close, there are also interesting times, a group of people sitting on the bench, white buttocks, simple thatched huts, people feel funny and sad.

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  • Geovany 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Great fix. In this centenary year, no one alive has any memory of the battlefield. But the movie makes people remember that every living life was lost in this meaningless war

  • Dayana 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    The soldier looks curiously and shyly at the camera to remind us that the cruelty presented in the film is no more striking than reality. I still see war as a boy's game, immersed in a tense and "fun" experience of uncertainty, even when the stakes are life. Taking care of soldiers, not generals and high-level political decisions, can shatter the unrealistic imagination of war. In addition, in terms of the history of video performance, this kind of documentary, which connects trivial facts with narrative, is more shocking than drama films.

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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.