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When Obama visited Hiroshima historicly and Shinzo Abe went to Pearl Harbor, the historical and moral issues left over from World War II step by step towards the final reconciliation. In recent years, the best films related to World War II have begun to stay away from the frontal battlefields and famous battles, turning to other ways, such as "Furious" about tank squad battles, "Son of Sol" by the concentration camp task force, and Nolan's new film " Dunkirk. From this point of view, "Blood Battle of Hacksaw Ridge" chose the Okinawa battle, not only old school, but also looks a bit outdated.
But I must say that it has been a long time since I saw such a serious World War II movie. Of course you must kill people in a war. This movie is about an American soldier who refuses to take a gun. He threw himself into the battlefield just to save people. This was the Second World War in which nearly 200 million people died and wounded, and it was also a war in which Desmond Dawes was alone. The structure of the film is very similar to Kubrick's "Full Metal Shell". In addition to the mundane life, the first half is full of foul language, corporal punishment, arguments and interrogations of training recruits. The second half is a bloody hell-mode battlefield with stumps and broken arms flying around.
In the two paragraphs before and after, the image styles are very different, and they are completely two worlds. The more old-fashioned, old-fashioned, old-fashioned, clichéd things you feel in the first half, and even a little unbearable. Then, the visual shock and spiritual shock you will encounter in the second half will be greater-you will have to fight yourself. The story of "Blood War Hacksaw Ridge" is like this: Desmond, his brother, and his parents live in a small American city. Although it was already in wartime conditions, the sun was shining all over, and the spring flowers were blooming. If he does not go to the battlefield, Desmond can fall in love freely, play a stable job, and live a comfortable life like a good citizen who obeys the law.
But the war broke out after all. All young people want to die for the country, and Desmond is no exception. However, because he almost missed his brother to death when he was a child, and because his father was intolerant of domestic violence, he was a devout Seventh-day Adventist who was willing to go to the battlefield but refused to take a gun—that is, blatantly defying the military service system.
Without the patience of the first half, the story of "Blood Battle in Hacksaw Ridge" probably has nothing to do with God, but with mental illness. Desmond will be more like a coward who is too scared to charge a gun on the battlefield, a crazy recruit defeated by PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Even if it is changed to a 120-frame psychological activity, it is difficult to subvert the audience's view of war.
The first half also tells that Desmond likes to climb mountains. He inadvertently saved the life of a stranger, and he wooed the girl straightforwardly...The seemingly clichéd clichés added a profound rationality to the bloody battlefield in the second half. His abundant physical strength, his firm beliefs, and his obsessive character. These things are indispensable after climbing up the hacksaw ridge.
There is also a war trauma suffered by a father, which also deeply hurt his family and children. Desmond jumped into the war, but hoped that the mother and child would stop crying and get rid of the damn nightmare cycle. The motives, the rationality of the drama, and the tacit understanding of the video still cannot explain most people's instinctive doubts about "Blood War Hacksaw Ridge". Do not kill on the battlefield, this pity and sympathy is more vain than the Virgin, what an international joke. At this time, without the blessing of real people and real things, "Blood Battle of Hacksaw Ridge" is simply untenable. As a result, "Blood War Hacksaw Ridge" really has a character prototype. This time the audience can understand the epiphany: heroes come from ordinary people, and ordinary people can also glow with divine personality. This anti-war movie is more anti-war than the previous anti-war.
It basically regards the battlefield of Hacksaw Ridge as a story in the "Bible" to tell. Desmond witnessed the killing, but refused to shoot himself. Desmond not only saved his own people, but also the Japanese soldiers. This is indeed a unique case, and it is even more buggy than the halo of the protagonist of a superhero movie. Also regarding the rescue of "Captain Sally", it is difficult for latecomers to use cold machines and data to simulate the psychological reaction of a normal person on an airplane. Everyone understands that it is either you or me who stepped into the battlefield. However, when you find that your life is at stake, then an individual will cry out for a savior. Those who didn't shout were definitely because it was too late. Fortunately, the savior is not far away, he is also a human being. Desmond is certainly great to save 75 people, but he is also a flesh and blood body, will be shot and wounded, and retreat to the line of fire. The war turned good human beings into inhumans with hideous faces. People in the era of peace also accept this worldview: allow their mental and physical consciousness to completely change, to praise the heroes of the battle, and to proclaim the brilliant results. Desmond puts war and peace in a world of mind: he saves and does not kill in an era of peace, and he saves and does not kill on the battlefield. The appearance of "Blood Battle of Hacksaw Ridge" did not happen overnight. Malik's "Thin Red Line", soldiers wandering on the battlefield. They are involved in battlefield killings and have doubts about the nature of the war. They are on the scene, but wandering in another world. Eastwood used the mirrored version of "Letters from Iwo Jima" from "The Flag of Fathers" to successfully treat the Japanese enemies as human beings, instead of being the incarnation of the devil with fierce face and impenetrable language. "Blood War Hacksaw Ridge" has a more far-reaching significance, which is aimed at wars that have already killed too many people. If both sides of the battlefield are painful, bleeding, and calling lives. The existence of war is equivalent to destroying human life. The tragic sight of those bullets and shells hitting the human body indicates that people are dying every second. That is not a number. That is life.
Killing one person and killing hundreds of thousands of people are killing people. But saving one person may save the hope of a family, and the beautiful new world connected behind countless families. So, even if I don't quite believe it, Desmond dragged Hacksaw Ridge to victory alone. But I believe that he won his war with his desperate spiritual beliefs and practical actions. [Please do not reprint. Published in "China Business News" ] Reference: Desmond Doss on Wikipedia is as powerful as it is a war movie, and these
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