The Fable of the Plague (Brief Review)

Harley 2022-01-16 08:02:10

Zhuanqiao Wanda Hall 9 (3D version released), 8.1~8.2 points "What is the plague? It's just life"-Camus 1, the opening screen changes from small to large, and the ending image changes from large to small , It is obvious that metaphorical history may be able to slowly walk into us at a certain moment, but it is destined to quietly retreat to the endless black hole of the years. Forgetting is human nature, our memory is too late to fill the sorrows and joys of others

2. I admire the production team’s devotion to history, and I’m very happy to see so many precious black-and-white images on the big screen that were first announced (and even repaired and colored). !). But from the perspective of the movie, the 90-minute bombardment of uninterrupted lines and the slightly monotonous accumulation of records are not the hallmarks of the best film.

3. Moving from black and white to color, it seems that I have lost the coordinates and latitude of time. That long narrative mixed with the charge gave me a terrifying empathy for the bottom line of the horror of war. Such a naked fear is rare in movie history.

4. Just as those innocent children under the age of 19 misunderstood war as a game, the most unforgivable and indisputable thing is that countless ordinary people regard their lost lives and bloody wars as wine for others. Gossip after a full meal. It’s not that they can’t empathize with them, nor that they’re willing to forget it on their own initiative. It’s just that this cruel world only allows us to have a little time to take care of and satisfy our endless greed and desires.

So, their pain and sorrow, let them go with the wind

War is like a plague, it won’t make life better, it won’t make life worse

Human nature is the same, right

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Extended Reading
  • Ambrose 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    A special screening on the centenary of the end of the First World War. Before anti-war, you need to know what war is. This movie truly restores the war in detail. Although there is suspicion of talking, but Peter Jackson's craftsmanship is too good, I feel that the genre of documentary has been subverted. If all century-old films were repaired in this way, it would have opened the door to a new world! ! !

  • Catalina 2022-03-24 09:03:19

    The viewing experience is very special and shocking. Not only the brutal presentation of the war, because of the use of the film of the year, the characters in it are very sensitive to the camera, they are always staring at you, and they are always smiling. This is especially heartbreaking. When I watched the biopic of the author of Winnie the Pooh that day, it also mentioned that the returning veterans of the First World War found that people were reluctant to talk about it. At the end of "The Lord of the Rings", Frodo and the others returned to the Shire, and no one was interested in the suffering they experienced. It's all post-war scars.

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They Shall Not Grow Old quotes

  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.