Let's talk about this first. Joyeux Noel = Merry Christmas. To be honest, if you just look at the title, if it weren't for the admission coupon for the first film, I wouldn't have watched it. Thanks to this coupon, I didn't miss this masterpiece.
I always feel that it is more suitable to use the 1983 "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence" (Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence) as the translation of Joyeux Noel.
At the beginning of the story, three children told about my wishes in elementary school classes in Germany, France, and Britain. The German child vowed to kill all the British, the British child regarded the French as a feud, and the French child was determined to eliminate all the German troops. At that time, they didn't know what war was. In their ears, war was just a game in their minds.
Unexpectedly, in 1914, the three of them had grown up to go to the battlefield, and also became generals, meeting on the same front. They no longer frolic, but try their best to keep themselves alive, looking forward to reuniting with their families after peace. People who are forced to go to the battlefield are, in fact, people who have no intention of fighting. Everyone is homesick.
On the battlefield, there were also the Scottish priest who was a medical team member, the German tenor Spean who was forced to take up a gun to charge into the battle, and the soprano Anna who came to the battlefield to live and die with Spean.
On the night of Christmas Eve, the priest performed the Scottish organ in the trenches of the British army, and Spean sang in the trenches. The music played on the battlefield moved each other's hearts. Finally, the generals of Germany, France and Britain agreed on a truce on Christmas Eve for one day. The priest even presided over the most important midnight mass in his life. Everyone is indifferent to me. On this evening, put down their weapons, share cigarettes and chocolates, and talk to each other. A cry: "Merry Christmas". The French generals and the German generals even made an appointment to meet in Paris after the war to introduce their wives and children to each other.
Soldiers long for peace, not war. Moreover, the friendship that sprang up overnight can no longer ask you to point a gun at the other person. But the militant is the ambitious man behind the scenes, and they didn't give up. Moreover, this battle did not last only a few months as they wished, but the First World War which lasted four years.
After Christmas, Spean and Anna left France with the assistance of French generals, and the three generals and priests were all transferred away. The British and French generals were convicted of treason, and the priest was sent back to Scotland by the church. Instead, another "priest" who was spreading the devil's message asked the British army to wield a god-given sword to kill the enemy. The German general and his men were sent on the death train to become martyrs in Russia.
There is a Christmas card on the promotional material of the premiere. The card read: May the world have peace and a Merry Christmas and a happy Christmas after Christmas. The
flyer also quoted the work of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm All hostility.
Although world peace is far away, the episode of real life on the battlefield in 1914 was a vicious protest against the cruel war.
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