I finished reading it while doing manual work.
An American "hero" Will, who was wounded on the Iraqi battlefield, was scheduled to become a messenger of death because he had three months of service. "An unbearable and terrifying job" (director ).
Will's boss is Montgomery, a rigid guy who requires strict procedures. At this time, Will himself is immersed in the pain of losing his childhood sweetheart after returning from the battlefield.
After passing death messages time after time, and after experiencing a variety of different languages, multiple social levels, multiple family environments, and multiple marital status, he violated those procedures, confronted his superiors, and insisted on insisting on not compromising with his superiors. Return to the station without taking the boss's car. After the boss made up a bunch of various romantic affairs about a certain widow, he still interacted with the woman.
Finally, in the exchanges with various people, after experiencing the impact of various deaths on people, he used the method of "the Secretary of the Army wishes you a long life" at the wedding of his ex-girlfriend in accordance with the method of serving the death notice. , Let go of the resentment about the lost love, and then bid farewell to the past. At the same time, he also told Montgomery that he became a "hero" throughout the process, especially because of his mistakes, let his comrades die on the mines, It also made him seriously injured and became a "hero." For this reason, after he recovered from his injury, he wanted to commit suicide, but at the moment when he wanted to commit suicide, the sun rose and he didn't want to die. He said that the process of becoming a "hero" was cruel, and it was a torture to the actors and the audience.
Although the whole film is full of various information about deaths, deaths from being ambushed, killed by bomb disposal, killed by plane crash, etc., it has always been shot in the sun. The only hustle and bustle is the hustle and bustle of heavy metal rock music that the protagonists like, suggesting that Will and Montgomery are struggling to fight against the shadow of war in their hearts and to get through the new balance after losing a lot of important emotional maintenance.
That widow is very sexy and looks very strong on the surface. It was also the first time Montgomery met someone who said, "It’s not easy to do your job." Many referrals said that our actor fell in love with her because he wanted to follow She had a relationship, however, the widow said that when her husband was alive, she thought he was dead, but when he left, she found that she fell in love with him. What is Xiangluyimo, this is Xiangluyimo. War widows and war survivors. When they didn't get out of the shadow of their own souls, they looked a lot like "love".
At the same time, the relationship between the superior and the subordinate, which is also emphasized in the film, is actually a kind of "brother" relationship. Moreover, the two male main sentence opponents acted very interestingly. Savor carefully, there is no humor in the whole film, although the whole film does not have any humor, it is even more serious and thinking of Oren Mufferman, who is the editor and director of this film.
I especially want to record the actor who played Will's first mission. He usually plays small roles, but they are all brilliant. This time, they are still small and still brilliant.
This is the first directorial work of Moverman, who is a screenwriter. Oren Moverman wrote and directed himself. He said that he wanted to express the various subtle relationships under the shadow of war, including this Subordinates to the "work hard". In my opinion, he did it. There are many people in the whole film, but each person has only a few shots. It is all sorrow, and the two male protagonists have to face these sorrows time and time again, and are even asked not to comfort the family of the deceased. All kinds of emotions are not enough lines and expressions.
By the way, the ending tune should have been sung by the man who played Montgomery, Ben Foster. It sounds like his voice is his. I didn't look at the cast and crew list. In this whole film, full of screams and sadness, in this folk song, it becomes a tranquility, quite like "the lone sail is far away and the blue sky is gone, but the Yangtze River is the sky stream". Place.
The sun rose, the darkness stayed behind, Will went to see the widow, and everything went to a new beginning.
The IMDB score of this film is 7.5, which is already quite high under this theme. Its practical significance is not in war, but in rebirth.
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