It is undeniable that every director will express his own wishes, and this film is the same. In my opinion, if they really do it for peace and for all this to calm down, they can give more shots to the Afghans in the Kurungal Valley and tell the audience how they live in the face of war.
Ordinary Afghans, they are the victims of the war, they are double-controlled by the U.S. military and the Taliban, they have no weapons of resistance in their hands, they can only reluctantly compromise one at a time. In the film, this force of forcibly entering life makes them paralyzed and plain, even when their children died under the rocket of a gunship, they only yelled with a slightly angry expression.
The above is the plot that impressed me the most in the film. The Afghans participated in the performance of the entire film with limited anger and stiff expressions. The director gave them more shots to get them to seek compensation from the US military for their dead cattle, but did not let them talk about the death of their children.
When a U.S. sergeant was killed by the Taliban on the top of the mountain, the American soldiers who had been helpless in this Death Valley lost control of their emotions and wanted to cry without tears, just like they used the names of their comrades to commemorate their outpost battle. After grief, they put their anger into bullets and blasted them until the enemy's death.
All of this is so real, it even makes people think that this kind of unmodified performance will be too strong, appearing too abrupt in the quiet soundtrack of the documentary, that is when the family, lover, and brother are lost. lament.
Their grief may have shocked many Chinese like me, as well as Americans who are more like-minded. However, a group of soldiers pushed the war with simple and crude anger, shooting and cursing at the valley until their opponents were torn by bullets. It fell apart and started laughing and high-fiving. What I see is not at all the friendship between brothers, or the loyalty to the country.
The villagers in the Kurungal Valley are sad. They may have nothing to do with all political positions, but they have to succumb to the powerful Taliban and American soldiers, expressing the anger and castration castrated by the director in the camera. sad. As the only neutrals, they were slaughtered, and the director was still spreading the justice he recognized. He didn't know that he himself was in the camp of the gunman, and he felt at ease.
If he is an Afghan, he will also join the National Guard. I think he will not be because of the American call, but because of fear, not for justice.
The war formed opposing groups. They confronted each other and formed a distinct camp. At this time, which side is strong, most people squeeze their heads to fight for standing with the gunner and be proud of it. There is no ideal, not for the sake of it. hope.
Through his work, the director extols crude anger, confuses opponents with the superior front-line life of the US military, promotes unilateral justice, and intimidates those who do not accept it. If he moves to China, he can work at CCAV, and he will definitely be a good director.
A film that deliberately ignores the most basic justice. After praising the brotherhood of a group of soldiers, I still don't feel that the real sadness belongs to them.
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