First explain the background of the movie.
In 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was established. They successfully drove away the Belgians who had colonized them for about a century. Yes, they were the white men who grabbed diamonds in "Return of Tarzan".
Lumumba: The Congolese picker after Belgium's brainless retreat. Sharp-minded, anti-white, anti-Western, pure-minded nationalist. (He was the one who was beaten to death in the opening scene. Historically, he was beaten to death by mercenaries for many days. The movie has been simplified.)
Tshombe: The talker in Katanga, the richest region of Congo. A shrewd, cunning, bold and double-faced politician, being fast and cruel is his life creed. Being good at dealing with various factions and flickering their benefits, they can reconcile contradictions like a god, allowing Congolese racists and white mercenaries to get along with each other and use them for their own purposes. It is a hero like Cao Cao in the troubled times of Congo.
United Mining Corporation: In fact, it is a mining group composed of three Belgian companies and a British company. What? You asked me about his relationship with the Congolese government? Those who have played StarCraft will understand that if you don't have a mine, your base can't be upgraded. To put it bluntly, whoever supports them in mining and selling money in the Congo is the real big brother. (Without them, there would be no mercenaries and planes in the Congolese army. The French trainer plane piloted by the Belgian who bombed the UN army was built by them.)
Secretary-General of the United Nations: (That’s right, the brother who crashed in the plane strangely) The purpose of the United Nations is to remove foreign troops and foreign-supplied heavy weapons from the Congo. Give back to the Congolese people a relatively independent and bright world. (In reality, the crash of the secretary-general's handjob is a mystery, but the movie has made an allusion.)
Connor: The chief Ma Tsai sent by the UN secretary-general to the Congo is a theoretical school who talks on paper. The "Mossau" he executed was translated as "Smashing". It is an action to further drive away foreign forces in the Congo.
Irish Army: The brainless cannon fodder who were unlucky enough to win a bad lottery.
There are three kinds of people in the world, those who are foresight, those who perceive later, and those who are ignorant. The Irish brothers, the protagonist of the film, are these ignorant novices. When someone ordered me to come, I hit an appointment with someone, and I went home when someone whistled.
It is simply the fat sheep in the eyes of liars, Fan Wei in Zhao Benshan's eyes, and calcium in calcium in the eyes of politicians. The only thing the protagonist of the whole film decides is to surrender.
If a war movie just shoots bullets flying around and explodes, it is basically nothing to look at.
A good war movie is either an anti-war theme, a love theme, a human nature theme, or a good and evil theme.
The Irish brothers, one is not for justice, two for humanity, and three for anti-war. They went to other people's country and fired randomly and used all the bullets twice. My day, play live CS. You have carried out the peacekeeping spirit to the end.
At the beginning of the film, it said that "Africa is like a melting pot, either melted by it, or made into steel." The Irish chose peacekeeping and finally felt that they could not hold on and ran away. Really damn it.
The opening shot perfectly mirrors the theme of the whole movie.
Soldier: "Miss Nurse, does the injection hurt?"
Nurse: "It doesn't hurt."
Soldier: "My grass, it hurts!"
The pattern of choreography determines the height of an artwork. Narration is just a stack of sound and picture techniques, and the theme and aesthetics are the key points of difference.
McBay talked about crisis and survival in "13 Hours of Crisis".
Feng Xiaogang talked about responsibility and trust in "Assembly Number".
Spielberg talked about life and value in "Saving Private Ryan".
However, the director of the film seems to have only made a "Guide to the Small Battlefield Besieged and Escaped", and the theme of this guide is-surrender.
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