So, I said to the priest: Father, a beauty was hunted down by the Nazis during the war and sought refuge in my house, so I hid it in the attic.
The priest said: This is a good deed, there is no need to repent.
The old man said: But not only that, she gave me her body in order to repay me.
The priest said: Well...you are all in danger. In the war, everyone has sinned, and you have been forgiven.
The old man said: Thank you, Father! The big rock in my heart finally fell to the ground. But I have another question...
Father: What is the problem, boy?
Old man: Should I tell her that the war is over?
war. A team of soldiers received the task to rescue the refugees who were locked up in the concentration camp. As they got closer and closer to the refugee camp, they smelled like old clothes piled up together. When they opened an old train carriage, they were shocked. The smell was not old clothes, but piles of corpses. First I saw the hands and feet, then the head. On it was a face with dry skin. The eyes were wide open, as if they were saying something or accusing them. In shock, the soldiers were filled with anger. When they were approaching the refugee camp, they were suddenly attacked by soldiers from the enemy camp. This was their last counterattack, but they were quickly suppressed by the peacekeepers. The angry soldiers decided to shoot these butchers on the spot. However, when these captured soldiers knelt on the ground and accepted the fate of being executed one by one, the angry soldiers suddenly realized that they were actually killing them. For those who have lost resistance, why can their fate be determined by these soldiers now? They are not gods, they were here to save people, but now they have become new slayers. This is war, and everyone is guilty.
Still war. You participated in it, you may have participated in the massacre, or you may not have participated, but you have participated in it after all. When you and your comrades are fighting for your own mission, you suddenly lose the battle due to insufficient combat effectiveness and are captured. Then, you line up with your comrades, waiting to be killed. In the whole war, you were just a trivial member, accepting instructions to do things, but now seeing your comrades in arms have not been tried, without giving any excuses, you die in front of you one by one. And you, became the only survivor, even though you had been lying on the hospital bed for three years before recovering from a semi-paralyzed state. The dead comrades swayed in front of them all day long, and they were judged at will by the enemy, and these hatreds lingered. Revenge has become your biggest reason to continue living.
In his childhood, he went hunting and was with his father. When he saw a deer, the desire and excitement of hunting made him raise his gun and shoot. Unfortunately, his marksmanship was not accurate enough. He shot the deer, but failed to kill it, but only shot through its lungs. The deer has been shot, and even if it cannot die immediately, it will certainly die soon. But the survival instinct is still supporting it, making it struggling desperately, and trying to escape, forcing the hunter to track it. The deer ran slower and slower, and the little hunter chased faster and faster. Finally, the two met. When he shot at it from a distance, he was filled with excitement and excitement, but now he faced it face to face and saw it dying, and the desire to survive still burned in its eyes, it looked at him , So innocent, so pathetic. The last knife, should I cut it on its throat immediately? The father said, "Child, hurry up, don't think of it as a life, but just a collection of blood and flesh." But he knew that he turned out to be a life. Originally, it had nothing to do with you, and its existence would not hinder you in any way. Now, he wants to end its destiny. Who is he? Why is he?
Ok. The four stories above are all from "Fatal Showdown." 1, 2, 4 belong to Robert De Niro and 3 belong to John Travolta. In 1992, during the Serbia-Herzegovina War, Robert De Niro belonged to the peacekeeping force and John Travolta belonged to Serbia. De Niro saw the slaughtered victims, and then angrily pointed his gun at the squad to which Travolta belonged. The war turned them into direct opponents. At the moment De Niro shot, he remembered the scene of killing that deer when he was a child. He suddenly realized that what his gun was facing was not simply a collection of flesh and blood, but also an individual full of life, and he didn't have the power to kill him. As a result, his muzzle was a little bit off. It was this fact that made Travolta the only survivor among the Serbian soldiers killed. As the only one, he started the road of revenge, this search was 18 years.
In 18 years, De Niro retired from the army and felt sorry for the soldiers who were killed without trial, and felt that he had become a sinner. Because of self-blame and atonement, he began to stay away from the world, hiding in the jungle and living alone. Just like the old man in Story 1, even though he was forgiven by the priest, the war still exists in his heart, and the knot in his heart has not been solved. But also because of his solitary living, it has increased the difficulty of finding Taravolta. Now, he finally found him, and the hatred was about to be resolved.
Well, all the above is the background of the story. The main focus in "Fatal Showdown" is the two people who finally meet after 18 years. What kind of confrontation will they have? The Chinese translator said that this kind of confrontation was fatal, and the English original said that this kind of encounter was full of killings. In fact, neither of them has been summarized completely, they are both dog-blooded headlines. In fact, this is a religious story about accountability and atonement, as well as relief and salvation. In the end, the two people finally reached a reconciliation after dialogue in a dilapidated church, on the verge of life and death.
The hatred has been backlogged for 18 years. Today’s encounter, Travolta is in the light, and De Niro is in the dark. When two people who were close to each other had just met, they seemed like good friends they hadn't met in many years when they didn't lift the hatred cover. This is because Travolta doesn’t want to kill De Niro immediately, just like the cat is not eager to kill the mouse after it has chased it, but intends to fiddle with it first, and wait until it’s enough to make the last cut. . In fact, this kind of play is not to play, but to ask a reason, forcing the other party to repent and apologize. But Robert De Niro is not easy to provoke, so he is willing to give in easily. As a result, the two people staged a good show of a duo showdown in the jungle.
If the hatred of 18 years is repeated, and a war game of killing and being slain is staged again, then this story will evolve into a vulgar, bloody B-level film. And Robert De Niro and John Travolta are two big coffees, far from such a low-level taste. And their common pursuit, together, what they are asking is the reflection on war and the ultimate topic of destiny. This also makes "Fatal Showdown" a movie with religious significance and profound connotations. But luck and misfortune are always two sides of the same, because of this theme, and the lack of B-level fun, also makes the expected fatal duel no longer fatal, but the mediocre fighting rushes most of the frame of the movie. , This fight has also become a fist embroidered leg. In terms of appreciation, the excitement is greatly reduced.
After all, Robert De Niro and John Travolta are old, and they can’t beat them anymore. Although there are still many shots of blood splattering and fatal wounds in the film, they are missing after all. Fist to the flesh. The current action movies, and even movies adapted from anime, have returned to the way of fisting to hand-to-hand killing. Even James Bond has started to fight from beginning to end, greatly reducing the exaggerated sci-fi weapon pair before the series. shoot. The appearance of "Fatal Showdown" seemed untimely, and the acting skills of the two did not have to be used in the film, and the facial makeup was too flat. As a result, this film is not embarrassing or awkward. In depth, because it is too close to religion, it seems a bit lazy, did not ask the ultimate meaning of life, did not push the reflection on war to the extreme, the actors' acting skills were not fully utilized, the actions were not addictive, and the story was not too fun. Filter it and there will be nothing left. It's a pity the lineup of Robert De Niro and John Travolta.
In fact, as a two-person duel of war hatred, Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan's "Follow the Two Heroes" (ace duel) is obviously better, and the relief of war hatred is also more convincing. If you want to recommend, I recommend this one even more.
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