In my impression of war movies, there are always very few descriptions of soldiers. They are just a kind of existence that is almost a background board. Usually, the war leader waved his hand, the artillery fire was in the sky, and the two teams of soldiers shouted and shouted, The two groups of people with blurred faces merged into a ball. After a fight, the camera turned to the top to divide the results of the war. The war seems to have nothing to do with those soldiers, they are just insignificant droplets in the torrent of history, and they are not humane. But in fact, they are the most important part of the war. They really feel the war. They should not be just a blurry background, not just a number, they should be a living person, their understanding of the war, only It is what we should understand and listen to.
What attracts me the most about this drama, apart from the realistic color restoration images, is the more unforgettable than the dialogue-style narration. It seems that only people from 100 years ago stood in front of you and told you about the past. It turned out that the grand war clouds were cleared away, and there were so many real people and things buried underneath.
At the beginning of the war, these young people who were well taken care of by their families had romantic fantasies about war. With their patriotic enthusiasm and the vigorous energy of young people, they even felt that war was just as exciting and exciting as going hunting with friends on weekends. It was interesting, and some people even put on their suitcases; when they were faced with boring training and poor food and accommodation conditions, they also began to shake and began to feel uncomfortable; when they actually entered the battlefield, they encouraged them to rush forward and run back. The fear of being killed by the superior surpassed the anger towards the enemy. In addition to the ten-minute terrifying shootout, seeing a comrade-in-arms who was chatting one second, and his head broken by a bullet the next second, only then did he realize that the war is not only bloody and cruel, Nothing. In addition, they have to face more battles between fleas and rats, not to mention the psychological pressure of making tea with corpses and falling asleep to the sound of cannons every day.
But these painful things are not the only ones in the voices they recall. They also have fun, holding games, singing and dancing, gambling, and even recalling the scene of going to a brothel for the first time (even referring to the brothel as another battlefield, Hahaha), from those humorous tones, you suddenly realize that all they care about is the same trivial life as ours. As said in the film, there is no war. They may just be shop owners or traders. They seem to be just ordinary people in military uniforms. Those cowardly hid behind the grass for a moment, rushing towards them in fear. The moment of the enemy, the moment of being scared to cry by the cannonball, is the moment that I think is really the most real and lovely. They are not blurred backgrounds, nor are they fearless gods, they are flesh and blood, courage and cowardice.
The saddest thing is that after the war, when the British soldiers and the German prisoners of war happily chatted, there was not so much hatred. Even the British soldiers praised the Germans as upright and lovely people. If there is a chance, he would prefer to talk to the German soldiers. Go and fight the French or the Russians together, not each other. So, putting aside the paranoid view of people from a certain country, you will find that most of us are actually one kind of people. It has nothing to do with the country or region. Everyone is just a person with advantages and disadvantages, and people who care about them. There are people who like it and people who hate it. There is no deep hatred, as the soldiers inside said: History will prove that this war is meaningless.
It really doesn't make sense to let the same kind of people die countless times and deprive them of the chance to live to feel the joys, sorrows and sorrows of this world. But in the end, aren't we ordinary people just the waves entangled in the river of history, aren't we? Sometimes it is just as the river of history rolls forward, and there is nothing we can do to change something. The only thing we can do is to live a happy life no matter what the environment is. After all, most of the time we cannot change the environment, only Change your mood.
In the end, I will always be a kind person, and I hope there will be no more wars in this world, because the most sacrificed will always be ordinary people who cannot be remembered by history.
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