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story of Attu starts flashbacks from New York in 1983. Hecht, a veteran working in a post office in Manhattan, saw an unfamiliar customer and suddenly shot and killed him. Then the police found the head of a statue in his home. Back in the cold winter of 1944, the 92nd Division of the American Infantry (known as the "Buffalo Unit" in history) composed entirely of blacks, 4 soldiers were surrounded in Toss, Italy to save the life of an Italian boy Angelo In a village called Santa Ana in the Cana region, on the one hand is a black army that has been discriminated against in the country and oppressed by white bosses in the army; on the other hand, it is a war-torn but shining humanity. An Italian rural town; the local villagers who were originally trembling with the black soldiers gradually became enthusiastic about them as the battle progressed. They crossed class, race, and geography to create a miracle of fraternity and power praised by the world.
Director Spike Lee is known as the "Black Fighter". In his 25-year history of directing, whether he portrays characters ("Malcolm X", "Be the Way") or concocts satirical comedies ("Fool", " "Betrayal of Heroes"), he always showed endless concern for the situation of blacks, and he must criticize the various contradictions and estrangements caused by the lack of communication between blacks and whites, and never forget his original intention. In this film, too, the heroism of black Americans is highlighted. Most of the
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films are made up of local actors, and Spike Lee also allows them to have natural conversations in their own country's language, so they often see English, German, and Italian in the same scene in many different languages. People from different countries have the same beliefs and pray the same prayers in different languages, which seems to be a metaphor for the equality of people and the injustice of war.
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During World War II, the widespread problem of racial discrimination in the United States was not alleviated much by being in the military. The government even allowed blacks to form an army independently, treating them as dispensable victims. However, they suffered from the country because of their skin color. The four soldiers, who were indifferent and alienated from their compatriots, found comfort in their hearts in a small remote village in Italy.
Cigarettes, chocolate, ice cream-the iconic American product
Angelo, who likes to eat chocolate, often yells Chaen chocolate Giant; in the eyes of locals, it is a luxury product or American cigarettes that money can't buy. They all reflect Their superiority as American soldiers, but the scene that happened in an ice cream shop opened by white Americans and the dazed and disappointed expressions of five people standing in front of American posters made me feel the urge to cry... from
Tuscany. The mountain village of Santa Ana has old stone houses and stone streets.
Angelo, the little boy rescued by Cien accidentally, often speaks to a person named Attu in the air. We can only think of Angelo’s illusion. Perhaps Attu is a non-existent person; until the end of the film, I just know who Atu is, another innocent child who died under the gun of the Nazis. The conscience of the German soldiers who had rescued Angelo was finally captured by the guerrillas and the carotid artery was severed by the avengers. It seems that every film that reflects the Second World War will have a righteous German officer or soldier who recognizes the mistakes of the war and acts in good faith to make up for the previous moral decay, but he himself will give his life and freedom to redeem.
Characteristic:
Sams: handsome, the leader of the four soldiers, an impeccable person, keen observation and decision-making, and very righteous, I think he likes Lenas.
Chai En: A silly cute big guy, a timid and devout believer, carries the statue head of the goddess of peach blossom with him, firmly believing that it can bring him strength and good luck. Cien tried his best to defend Angelo and stay with him. Their language was impenetrable and limited to the expression of a few behaviors.
Hector: The only survivor of these black soldiers, who speaks Italian, always runs on the battlefield with a heavy radio receiver on his back. Because he was delayed on the mountain by Rudolph, he was saved at the last moment of the gunfight in the mountain village. The regular action is to kiss the cross hung on his neck religiously, but in the film he didn't notice how his cross necklace got on Angelo.
Bishop: Not very flattering, often with a silly smile, contradicting Sams, and seduce Lenas, who is still the heroine. Until Cien was dying, Bishop took the Angelo he had entrusted to a safe place, and when he looked back to rescue Cien, but died in the bullet rain, all my disdain for him disappeared.
Lenas: Beautiful, kind-hearted, brave. Although she is Italian, she speaks English. She obviously likes Sam but has a relationship with Bishop. She is the wife of guerrilla Pipi, but her husband has been missing for a long time, perhaps Bishop. That's right, she is a little wild cat that needs nourishment...
Pippi: The leader of the local guerrillas, the German Hitler who offered a huge reward for assassination, has always been worried about the death of her former friend, the Hitlerist Jack. Forbearance and partiality. In order to find him, hundreds of people in Santa Ana were innocently slaughtered by the German army; for him, it takes more courage to live than to die.
Rudolph: Jack's brother, who wanted revenge and became a guerrilla traitor, cut off the neck artery of the German soldier, and shot Pipi when he finally knew he was a traitor. He had been shot and killed with a German pistol by Hector, who was about to retire decades later.
Hmm~~~ Miracles don’t just refer to miracles in war. You can understand from the tiny possibility in the opening film and the reunion of Angelo and Hector at the end. If Hector did not meet Rudolph again or recognize him, or if he worked honestly until retirement without shooting Rudolph; if the reporter who just worked was not so persistent in wanting to report the news, or if he was a police officer Suppose the reporter has withstood the stalking of the reporter and did not give him convenience, then the reporter would not be able to follow the police to Hector's house, did not find the head of Peach Blossom Goddess, and could not write exclusive headlines about Peach Blossom and Hector's photos; The American businessman living in Rome didn't pick up the newspaper when his mistress was teasing, or the coquettish mistress took the newspaper and didn't throw it out the window, and the newspaper happened to fall on Angelo's table sitting in an outdoor cafe drinking coffee, then Angelo probably wouldn't have seen such a big picture of Hector and the Peach Blossom Goddess. The Peach Blossom Goddess was like Chai's relic, and Angelo was too familiar with it.
Decades after the war, Angelo has given full play to his talents and has become a very successful wealthy businessman in the United States. In the morning in Rome, in the outdoor cafes on the street, everything was a miracle to him. With his help, Hector was acquitted without spending a few words. For Hector, it is a miracle whether it is the survivor of that war or the surviving of an indisputable murder a few decades later. Therefore, the reunion of Hector and Angelo was also a miracle.
At the end of the film, on the blue seashore, the two tearfully forgot and cherish the memory of their friends who died in the war. Emotional flooding.
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