Live without respect, die with respect!

Eduardo 2022-04-22 07:01:55

After watching the whole film, it is only 78 minutes, it is a powerful work.

I have always been skeptical about Americans' feelings for life. On the one hand, they keep saying that they must respect human rights and guarantee equality. On the one hand, they are pointing fingers at other countries and looking down at them. This in itself creates a paradox.

In fact, any country that can get it out on one hand has a bit of great power chauvinism, especially the United States! In fact, if it were the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, and us during the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, all of them may have produced such works, or better than this.

Maybe it's because I'm still young and have no religious beliefs. I don't know what the officer who escorted Chance was always taking out Chance's belongings, such as crosses, necklaces, watches, etc. from time to time at every stop. . Is it simply a memory of the deceased or something else?

In short, I don't think this short film can be regarded as a classic. If you have any ideas, please give me some pointers.

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Taking Chance quotes

  • 1st Lt. Dan Robertson (Chance Phelp's platoon commander): [voiceover, from his 09 April 2004 letter to the Phelps family] It's ironic, but I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps.

  • LtCol Mike Strobl: [voiceover] Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.