Li Boyan published the film
"Holiday 100" and "Escort Chance" on June 12, 2009. The story is so simple that it can be summed up in one sentence.
Not to mention the quality of its shooting skills, nor to mention the official propaganda color, just say that the movie screen conveys the kind of "decent" to death from beginning to end. This is all infiltrated in the branches of the movie. Colonel Michael set off from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on the east coast of the United States to the hometown of Corporal Chancellor in Wyoming in the northwest of the United States. Regardless of their status, they all take off their hats and salute with tears in their eyes. It's not that the deceased Corporal Chancellor was really a hero. In fact, he was just one of the thousands of soldiers who died in a foreign country, and people were as sad as seeing the lovely child next door die; it wasn't that passers-by knew Chancellor, just to give the deceased a decent honor. , probably stems from the general respect Westerners have for the dead. Because in the countries of the Western Christian tradition, all life and death are equal, let alone soldiers who died in battle, prisoners or rogues, as long as they die, their funerals should at least be decent.
This kind of dignified, even solemn, sending a dead person makes people feel ashamed. Because I have not encountered any "decent" funeral, let alone solemn. China's approach to the dead is generally "ceremonious", and relatives and friends only cry unhappily, but Confucius has long said that "sorrow but not hurt". Suppose someone said that the funerals of civilians in China are noisy, and the people who are famous are quiet after they die; it is really quiet, and those who come must bow three times, and then the media will gather around for interviews. It was a little quiet, and who knew that dozens or hundreds of media groups would participate in a press conference of death. At the end of "Escorting Chance", Chance was buried, and a funeral for an ordinary American soldier was held in the mountains. Funeral out? Due to differences in national conditions and religions, it is not easy to force right and wrong in funerals, but we have not caught up with the "decent" faction. If we really want to be decent, let's look at the hero of Escort Chance.
The protagonist of the film, Colonel Michael, escorted Chance all the way home, respectfully, but he has nothing to do with Chance, it should be said that he has nothing to do with Chance, his motive for deciding to escort Chance is very interesting. Colonel Michael is the kind of professional soldier who stays in the office all day and has a happy family, and seems to be restless, or because he is about to retire at the upper age limit, and he wants to do something practical. And just like that, he became a protector. The reason for this motivation can be made clear to the audience in the second half of the film. In a dialogue, the colonel revealed the story in his heart. It turned out that many years ago, when he was young, his good friend died in the war, and he himself For the sake of a training, he was lucky not to be sent to the battlefield. When he learned the news of his friend's death, he was very sad, as if his friend died for himself. This story lingered in Colonel Michael's heart for a long time. Therefore, when he heard the news of the death of his 19-year-old fellow countryman, Chancellor, he decided to apply for a guardianship as if the death of Chancellor had something to do with him. , take Chance home. We can simply analyze this motive. I think this motive, by extension, comes from the concept of "everyone is equal". The strangers he met along the way to take Chance home had this idea in their hearts. And this concept tells us that no matter who dies, first of all, he is a human being, human beings need basic dignity, and human beings need basic decency.
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