Sitting at home, the night was shining outside the window, I turned off the lights, and the people watching the screen in the dark alone interpret life and death 7,000 kilometers away in Arabic. There was a sense of unreality through time and space in a trance. But every scene of this birth and death is based on real events, and the stage is not in the "distant" past. It happened four years ago in 2016. Most of us can even clearly recall the spring that passed that year. Summer, autumn and winter.
Because of a can of washing powder, a sovereign country was crushed and crushed by the ground. Mosul, once the second largest city, was dragged into the endless wars. It was hard to get the "Crusade" to leave. In exchange for being occupied by the more cruel Islamic State. Because it is close to Kirkuk, a major oil town in the north, Mosul has actually become the political and economic center of ISIS, and its actual status is higher than the nominal "capital" Raqqa. Once the seat of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, once again becoming the center of a “nation” brought the people of Mosul not prosperity and stability, but more fierce wars and more extreme religious rule. They can only stay here. Suffering from day-to-day suffering. Until 2016, the Iraqi government's coalition forces finally started the battle to recover Mosul, but due to strategic misjudgment, the originally planned three-month operation was turned into a protracted battle. This film intercepted just one day. , The Nineveh Special Police Squad launched a desperate battle with terrorists in the ruined walls of the homeland.
Living in a great eastern country, it is difficult for ordinary people of us to imagine the environment of Mosul. Even if I am familiar with the article of the “Earth Knowledge Bureau”, it is the first time to experience the complexity of it through images. There are ISIS extremists, all kinds of pro-government armed forces with all kinds of ideas, special police squads floating outside the order, and Kurdish armed forces, the people's mobilization organization PMF, and the United States and Iran hiding behind them. The years of war not only tore apart the territory of this country, but also made everyone trapped in it seem to be a contradiction. Once the government police are captured by ISIS, they may turn their heads and become terrorists firing on their comrades; The middle-aged man whose relatives were killed by the U.S. military, but emigrated his surviving grandson to the United States; the captain of the special police recognized the powerful combat firepower of the U.S. military, but would rather be in danger than seek help from the U.S. military; the SWAT team hates the barbaric terrorists Beheading, but in turn greeted the ISIS prisoners with the beheading; there are also fundamentalists who read American pornographic magazines, Iranian special forces officers who use NATO weapons, and PMF who are both enemies and friends. Kurdish grievances. The diversity of human nature is intermingled in the melting pot of war. You can't distinguish whether a person is good or bad. Enemy or ally is a mask that changes at any time due to the environment. This is why the quagmire of Iraq is stuck.
Everything is an interest, but what no one cares about is the life and death of ordinary people. The homeland has been dilapidated so far. The retreating terrorists will naturally not consider how to rebuild, the new commander will not consider it, and the Americans who are half a world away will not consider it. Only the people who were born and raised in Mosul will do it. I really care about this problem from the bottom of my heart. The members of the special police squad grew up in Mosul, and they have lost their relatives because of ISIS. They gave up all government support, willing to risk being sent to a military court, and sacrificed half of their comrades in less than a day. , Just to complete their secret mission. They worked so hard, so desperately to find their trapped relatives, so desperate to protect the next generation of Mosul, because they knew that young blood was the only hope for rebuilding their homeland.
In 689 BC, the Assyrian Empire captured the city of Babylon for the fourth time. After the raid, the thousand-year-old city was burned to ashes by a torch. Seeing countless treasures being continuously sent to the Nineveh Palace, the empire was brought to the extreme with one hand. King Sinaherib in his prime could not imagine that two thousand years later, the capital of the capital would encounter a catastrophe comparable to the death of the city of Babylon and become a chessboard for great powers. But just as the city of Babylon will eventually be born again from Baghdad, as long as there are people there, there will be hope in Mosul. The two rivers that have been running for thousands of years will be the best testimony of all this.
Although the film excludes the actors and scenes, it is actually a typical American war film, but its focus on street fighting is very professional-every corner may be a shuttle bullet, and one hand holds a gun, the other holds it. This is the first time I have witnessed the sneaking posture of the RPG, which is quite realistic. More importantly, this film allows us to face the closest war to us, so that we who are in peace can get a glimpse of the side of Iraqis that do not bow to fate: no one is born an invincible hero. Before becoming a hero, they are the first To become a person who knows how to love and yearn.
Wonderful, recommended, not favorite.
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