A very good documentary, more thought-provoking than a Hollywood war film, because this film removes those overly exaggerated and dramatic, and presents an account of the incompetence that each individual soldier suffered in this war. make up for the injury.
The narrative of this film basically follows a sequential timeline, focusing on ordinary British soldiers. The atmosphere in the first half is cheerful and relaxed, as if everyone is just here to participate in a training camp. This also reveals one reason why so many people are willing to join the army. : Before the war, they were dismissed workers who could not find a job. They were losers in society, and winning glory for the country gave them meaning in life and honor in their identity, so of course they were happy to accept such an opportunity to prove themselves. , but the cruelty of war is something they can never imagine in their daily life.
After entering the front line in the second half, the atmosphere of the whole film became solemn and depressing, and the sense of absurdity continued to grow in my heart - no one knew what was going to be done, for what, but something had to be done. Everything on the battlefield is so counterintuitive and challenges human understanding of civilization. You can see this puzzling but reasonable attitude of the British soldiers, who admired these Germans, killed them in battle without blinking, and had no sympathy for them; used to the brutality of the battlefield , Soldiers can eat and sleep as usual in an environment full of corpses, and kill people slowly without any emotion. When he sees an enemy like his grandfather and kills him, will his heart have a ripple in his heart? Probably not. The traces of his civilization have been wiped out by the war. He has become a weapon of war. Killing can bring them pleasure. It is not difficult to understand why it is so difficult for the soldiers to adapt after the war, because there has been a clear gap between him and ordinary people, and his views and practices on things are completely different. Those in power in the war, they have become the scapegoats of those in power, and this guilt will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
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