The black-skinned hands gently wiped the pale corpse, and the officers dressed in serious clothes meticulously escorted the coffin, raising and lowering the military salute again and again. The staff put down their work and paid tribute to the body. The vehicles on the road spontaneously turned on their lights to greet the body... It is a simple picture of this scene.
Chance is not a hero who saved America, just a Marine who died in a war that didn't know whether it was right or not, not many heroic deeds, just an ordinary American soldier, killed in battle, for the sake of country died.
All the armies in the world teach soldiers only to obey orders. For individual soldiers, there is no justice or injustice, just young lives. Therefore, this film should not be hung with any symbols related to ideology or national interests. More, it is a reverence for life and reflection on war.
At the end of the film, some clips of Chance's childhood were played, such a young life left this world, a 19-year-old boy, when we were still in the university, he was already in the war. I was far away from this world, and I didn't even have a complete face. When I first saw the great rivers and mountains of the American people that were shown in the film after escorting Chance the journey, I felt that these shots meant that Chance's death was defending the United States. The meaning of local tranquility, after closing the computer and thinking about such a peaceful and beautiful world, there is no chance of Qian Si anymore. He can only sleep on the land behind him, and he does not feel disappointed. War is really not supposed to be. Something that exists in the world of human civilization.
During the whole journey in the film, all the people express their awe for Chance. Although Chance is dead, he has been respected enough after his death, a gift that is enough for a person to sacrifice his life for a country. Respect, there is a poem commemorating Lu Xun saying that some people are alive and he is dead; some people are dead and he is still alive. The film uses a series of pictures to express that Chance is alive in the hearts of Americans.
The scene in the film that moved me the most was the scene where the vehicles passing by on the highway saw the cars escorting the coffin turned on their lights and cleared the way for it, even more so than the scene where we were called by the government to observe the three-minute silence for the Wenchuan earthquake.
When I read it, I really thought, if I were an American, I would be willing to join the Marine Corps and die for this country.
But I am a Chinese, so I will think that the patriotic education I have received since I was a child is nothing more than Dong Cunrui who sacrificed his life to bomb the bunker, Huang Jiguang who blocked the eye-catching, and Qiu Shaoyun who was burned to death. When I was a child, I thought they were great. Think about other cannon fodder besides them. What about their fate? Will anyone remember those who died for our happiness today? The name of the American soldier, I really can't think of where I should go to pay tribute to the 1.48 million Chinese soldiers who died in the Anti-Japanese War, the Monument to the People's Heroes?
This is American-style patriotic education. It's not a heroic saga shouting "freedom", just a story, a story of escorting a dead soldier named Chancellor home.
When can China make a movie like this, about ordinary people, about life and death, about war and peace, about those who fell for our day...
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