I watched two war-themed movies for two days in a row, and they are no longer getting old in the decisive battle on Midway Island. Although I am a fan of the puppet army, I particularly like war movies, from the favorite Pearl Harbor movie Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! When it comes to Dunkirk and the darkest moment, then to the bloody battle of Hacksaw Ridge, there are also the bright swords of the N brush, haha, not much to see, but if there is a schedule, it will definitely contribute to the box office. But the movie I saw in the theater yesterday was very different. I kept crying when I watched the movie. It is different from the war movies I have seen before because the pictures, sounds and scenes contributed by this movie (or documentary) are all different. Too real, let the gray battle of the first show to the audience in colorful and sound 3D form.
1. The pictures are real. Because the film is a historical film restoration (too many great gods have introduced it in the film reviews, I won’t repeat it). Every soldier in front of the camera goes from being inspired to enlist in the army, to training, to being on the battlefield. The surviving military veterans are so real. Unlike other war films, where the actors perform, the soldiers in front of the camera are real people a hundred years ago. Their smiling faces, their actions, and their helplessness are all real. The color of the movie starts in black and white, slowly changes to color, and finally becomes black and white again. The director seems to slowly unfold a picture scroll and close it at the end, or the audience is like looking at a diorama, slowly becoming fascinated and slowly dismissing.
2. The sound is real. In fact, many of the sound effects in the movie are simulated, but the narration is the voice of a veteran who has actually experienced a station. The director merges the voice of the veteran with the sound of the battlefield. There is even a five-second black screen in the film, that is I want the audience to feel the immersive feeling, the kind of helpless panic and fear of cruelty. Of course, there are various mechanical sounds and the sounds of the soldiers laughing. These sounds should be post-configuration. There is a camera where a soldier said to the camera: hey, mama, every soldier in front of the camera saw the camera, a rare object at the time. Laughing all the time, even in the exhausted rest after the war.
3. The scene is real, even if I have watched how many realistic European and American horror films, and how realistic the prop artists have arranged the blood of the corpses, my feelings are only disgusting or surprised, but when you really see the scenes all over the battlefield The corpses and wounded soldiers, some of the corpses are purple, some are stiff, and some have begun to decompose. When I actually saw it, I didn’t feel scared but felt cold and sorrow in my heart, because human instinct can make you aware. Until your kind, a life has passed away, and the ending is very unbearable, ugly.
The most amazing and sad thing about watching a movie is that through the lens, it seems that every face and every eye look like time and space that has traveled through a hundred years, and exist in a parallel time and space with me, just like the soldier on the poster turned his head, his My eyes are looking at the camera or looking at you, as if saying: live well and do not mess up! This kind of shock cannot be brought to the audience by large-scale productions or excellent actors. This is also the fundamental reason why this film is different from other war films. It shows not that heroes are not individuals but the most basic unit of war---everyone. An ordinary soldier, no name, no special, is the ordinary people around you and me, even German soldiers are the same. The captured German soldiers are treated humanely, and you can laugh with the British army. They may all be haircuts in their hometown. Teachers, newsboys, butchers, shop employees, etc.
The director deserves to be the director of The Lord of the Rings. There are many details in the Lord of the Rings reflecting his thinking about war. For example, the optimistic British are the residents of Hobbiton, and the residents of the Hobbits after returning to their hometown after the war are not. The attitude of caring about war is a reflection of ordinary British people. These details make me have a respect for the director and the production team.
At the end, I always see a small red flower on the British soil in the film, which is very conspicuous in the monotonous tone of the film. I wonder if it is the poppies worn by the people on the British National Day. NO WAR! PEACE&LOVE!!!
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