A rare low-level anti-war film, Pete fell into the hole.
A lot of anti-war films were shot, among which there are more excellent grades. Hintler’s list, Apocalypse Now, and even Pete’s rage the year before last. Last year’s Japanese cartoons were better than this war machine in the corners of the world. Well, N grades. Now this film vilifies the four-star general Glen and portrays him as a careerist, who sacrifices soldiers for his own power and launches meaningless large-scale military operations as a bastard.
The following are spoilers.
The plot is very simple. Glen played by Pete is sent to Afghanistan to clean up the mess. Glen hopes to launch a large-scale military operation to eradicate the remnants of the Taliban, but Obama’s staff disagrees, so Glen releases the materials to reporters and arranges interviews, exposing the two of Obamas. It took more than a month to talk to him once, and he didn't pay much attention to the battlefield in Afghanistan. Under pressure from the media, Obama agreed to increase Glen by 30,000 troops, but Glen needs 40,000 troops, and 10,000 Glen will personally lead the team to Europe and lobby NATO allies to send troops. In the end, Glen launched the largest military operation in eight years after garrisoning troops, trying to capture the last important town controlled by the Taliban and win the war in Afghanistan. But in the process, the civilians were bombed by mistake, and the reporter who wrote his biography wrote him as a war madman, and wrote the Glen team's European trip as a trip to drink and buy drunk. Therefore, he gave Obama a confession and recalled Glen.
The following is a complaint.
Unfortunately, Pete played Glen. In order to achieve the purpose of ugly, he squinted his right eye and stared at his left eye almost all the way. Only when he talked about military strategy, his eyes returned to normal only when he was advocating war. Come on, director, you don’t have to be so low if you want to be ugly. Secondly, pay attention to Pete's hands, whether they are running, speaking, participating in parties, etc., they are all claw-shaped. The director also described it in an off-picture voice. This is the claw of a lion. But it looks like a chicken's hand with the sequelae of leprosy. Such a person can be the four-star general of the U.S. Emperor? Director, it's too dark.
The following is the reverse thinking.
On the contrary, from this film, looking at it the other way around, excluding the big and small eyes and chicken feet, in fact, Glen is a very good general.
First of all, he strictly required himself to run 11 kilometers every morning, and refused to stay in the leadership suite of the base. He would rather live in a small wooden house. For eight years, he would meet with his wife for no more than 30 days each year.
Secondly, in order to understand the situation in Afghanistan, he and his team traveled to every province in Afghanistan and also used local people as staff.
In addition, he loves soldiers and goes on patrols with soldiers. When soldiers are confused, he will explain. His subordinates love him and support him.
Finally, he still has political vision, knowing that war cannot be won by force alone. He hoped that the locals would regard the U.S. military as a peacemaker rather than an aggressor. Therefore, he asked the soldiers not to shoot without confirming that the opponent is armed with weapons to avoid accidentally killing civilians. Glen has his own theory. If two civilians were killed, twelve of his relatives and friends would fall to the terrorists. Unfortunately, there was an accident of killing civilians during the final military operation. Glen would personally apologize and explain the purpose of the military operation to the locals.
Unfortunately, Glen finally failed. The reasons for the failure are as follows.
The most important thing is the Zuojiao thought that is common in the European and American worlds: love and tolerance, wars are all wrong and cannot solve problems.
Therefore, it is impossible for the President of Zuo Jiao, Obama, to support Glen's military operations after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. What's more, Glen uses the media to force himself to increase troops? But Obama is also sinister enough. He announced an increase of 30,000 troops and a complete withdrawal of his troops in 18 months. It is equivalent to telling the Taliban that you have survived for eighteen months, which has increased the morale of the terrorists in disguise and made Glen more difficult. Once Glen made a mistake, he would take it down. With such a boss, can subordinates succeed? There is a scene in the film. When Glen is lobbying in Europe, Obama is also in Europe, so President Black summons Glen to a meeting. Glen and his team really took it seriously. They changed their schedule and rushed to the face. As a result, the little black horse only met Glen at the airport, patted him on the shoulder, and jumped on the presidential plane with pride.
In addition, the reporter from Zuo Jiao discredited Glen. Originally, I asked reporters to join the team for interviews. I wanted to get media support on the cover of a magazine and facilitate military operations. I didn't expect the reporters to write it off. In addition, in a speech in Germany, a female reporter also made a sharp accusation that Glen, out of personal ambition, insisted on launching the largest military operation in eight years and sacrificed soldiers in order to push her personal military career to the peak. He also said that being a German journalist is to prevent Germany from increasing troops and preventing German soldiers from making personal sacrifices, because such things have happened in Germany (Hitler launched World War II). My goodness, how big is the psychological shadow of the Germans towards Hitler, will they be able to live well in the future?
Finally, the reason for Glen's failure was a bunch of pig teammates. For example, Germany agreed to send troops, but stipulated that soldiers could not leave the base. There are also many countries that send a few soldiers to act symbolically. In the Afghan war, it was retribution. In fact, the US military has contributed in Afghanistan. The US military built roads and hospitals for them, trained Afghanistan’s own army, conducted elections in Afghanistan, and even allowed local people to grow poppies to make money. However, the awareness of the locals still can’t keep up with the pace of civilization. They told Glen that although you build roads and build hospitals and schools for us, we are very happy, but you U.S. troops, hurry up. The longer you stay, the Taliban treat the locals. The more serious the revenge. Even though Glen explained that the U.S. military will train the Afghan army to protect you, the locals still tell the U.S. military to leave. This kind of backward nation doesn't feel angry or resists. If someone helps you do it, you are still afraid of it. You deserve to be unlucky enough to oppress you. There are still many similar backward nations in the world.
In conclusion, Glen is just a soldier who has the courage to take responsibility, but now that Zuojiao's thoughts are flooded, Glen's failure has long been doomed. Let's take a look at the extent to which terrorists will be rampant without a strong world police, and when the three fats will be harmed. This is definitely not the blessing of the civilized world. It was civilians who were the most injured, not the left plastic political sticks and their writers who advocated love and tolerance.
Finally, the Glen team left and changed to the Bob team. The picture was very happy. The new team is even more murderous, and the director used this to satirize that the US military is just a constantly moving war machine.
It's a pity that Pete made this film.
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