The story setting of this movie is very simple. After a sniper and his observer failed to perform their mission in the desert, they fled in the desert. The observer accidentally died in front of the sniper by a landmine. At this time, the sniper who had been alert heard the sound of having stepped on a landmine. The observer committed suicide by drinking a bomb, and the sniper called for help via radio and learned that the rescue team would arrive at the fastest 52 hours (it actually took 69 hours). The sniper survived for 69 hours in the desert alone in the face of cold nights (the average temperature difference between day and night in the desert is 50 degrees), hungry wolves, hunger and thirst, and unable to sleep. In the meantime, hallucinations struck, and various memories flashed back. Including the domestic violence of the young father, the hero who met his girlfriend for the first time to save the United States, and the ward where the mother was critically ill, she did not dare to look back after leaving the house. The snipers were all under the sound of "stepping on thunder", unable to take that final step. Faced with domestic violence against his mother, his father did not dare to resist. After the hero saves the United States, he dare not return the hat he picked up to his girlfriend... The reason is simple and easy to understand, and everyone may have "mines" that they can't get through. When the "thunder stepping" sounded, we hesitated, feared, compromised, and dared not face the predicament directly. This has become a minefield in our lives that we can never step through. Even if we accidentally touch it, we will always think of the deadly "thunder stepping" sound in our hearts, making us afraid to look back until it condenses into a scar and the blood accumulates without knowing it.
The optimistic black man in the play tells us the answer. No matter what kind of predicament he faces, he always needs to keep moving forward. It may be very difficult, may fail, be afraid, and may face death, but it is the only way to find happiness. way. And God’s jokes always make us discover that after the “landmine” under our feet has passed, it turns out that it is just a can.
I believe that black people know from beginning to end that the sniper’s feet are not landmines at all. This can be known from the fact that the sniper took out the soldier doll that the black daughter loved to play with during her lifetime. It is impossible for a black man to forget the location of the souvenir of his daughter he buried with his own hands. Looking through the movie, you can find that the blacks have hinted countless times that the sniper's feet are not a landmine.
"I stepped on a mine" "Are you sure?"
"My teammate was killed because they stepped on the mines here!"
"Don't worry about your friends, but you are still alive, you must take a step"
"My next step will be my last step"
"I know the problem, you are scared"
At this point, our sniper was going crazy by this philosophical black man. He doesn't understand why there are idlers discussing the philosophy of life with him now that his life is threatened. All he wanted was a sip of water and a radio that he couldn't reach. Of course, we can't criticize a soldier brother who is almost completely dehydrated, and we can calmly think about these linguistic cues. I just want to tell you the occasion and background of this conversation.
Snipers came to Afghanistan to perform assassination missions. For the Afghan people, snipers are outsiders and unwelcome invaders!
"Forty years have passed, and there have been more than 8,000 wars"
"We planted 3.3 million landmines here"
3.3 million landmines, what an amazing number. These landmines are buried on the land of the Afghan people. Some do not know how long they have been buried, or how many have not yet detonated. These mines are like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the Afghan people, and they don't know when they will be smashed down by lightning. Death is pervasive in his homeland. At this time, an Afghan black man saw a man who mistakenly thought he had stepped on a landmine planted by his country's army. Precisely, this black man and his deceased daughter made a living by "selling mines" or clearing mines. This job is dangerous and helpless.
In this context, if I were the black man, I couldn’t do it. I calmly told the sniper that my feet were not mines at all, but were the relics of a soldier doll of my daughter in a can! Of course, in the end, the black people saw such a tough sniper and helped the sniper to persevere again and again. Perhaps the black man hoped that God would judge this intruder who claimed to be "I'm just a soldier".
"Why in the desert?"
"Because there is a war!"
"Do you want to kill the enemy?"
"No, I'm a soldier"
I sincerely hope that all soldiers and officers can find a reason for every war they have participated in. Soldiers are not robots, they are also flesh and blood people. There is always a line that disgusts me in modern war films, "It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders." why? Isn't a soldier a human? Don't soldiers have the freedom to think? Of course, it is also a career as a soldier, destined to have his uniqueness. But I always naively hope that a soldier knows why he kills before he pulls the trigger!
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