Another perspective of war

Alta 2022-01-08 08:03:44

The film tells about war from a narrow and unique perspective, presents the impact of war on the original ordinary family, and touches the heart.

Ordinary family life is not always happy. But the moment the death messenger arrived, it was the hope of happiness, and the ashes disappeared in a flash. despair.

The soldier's widow said that when her husband was alive, it was not good for her and her children. She treated him as dead, but when he left, she found that she fell in love with him again. At the end of love, it is the companion in the heart. No matter how unbearable, it is no match for death.

Begin to re-examine the sadness and death of the heart. th. But heart death may be a kind of rebirth, even in another posture. Heartache is a long-term entanglement, in the shadows.

The original "hero" of the war, but because of his mistakes, his comrade-in-arms died on a landmine, and he was seriously injured as a "hero". After he recovered from his injury, he wanted to commit suicide, but when the sun rose, he I don't want to die. This passage, even if it is clichéd, is still a kind of torture when reflecting on the war.

Survivors of the war, to the messenger who delivered the news of the death, double wounds.

Just, why should there be war.

Regardless of whether it is a prosperous state or a difficult state, the hardest things are ordinary families.

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The Messenger quotes

  • Olivia Pitterson: Did you ever loose anybody?

    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: Yeah. Friends, over there. My father, during peace time, drunk driver.

    Olivia Pitterson: Did they catch him?

    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: No, my father was the drunk driver.

  • Captain Tony Stone: You gotta wake the fuck up! You're not in high school, you're not in a fuckin' rock band, you're in the Army.

    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: Yeah, I know. I know I'm in the Army. I gave blood to the Army. I got blown up in a fire-fight that lasted longer than your entire war. I didn't sunbath in Kuwait with the rest of the POGs.