1. The protagonists’ identity of Russian descent
A group of American Russians were forced to play Tetris by the Viet Cong. Bah, the Russian turntable.
2. Promise flag before the war
According to the definition of a war movie, Li's entrustment of the flag is very successful. If Nick asks Mike to add "alive" when he brings him back, he may be able to come back alive according to the law.
3. Title
Mike and Nick both look American, but in the end Mike used the Russian nickname Nicholas when calling Nick's memory, which was also different from the official Russian name Nick was asked in the hospital. Mike's friend called him Misha once when he clinked glasses after he came back, which is also a Russian nickname. So the Russian nickname is the link that awakens memories?
In addition to Nick, others including Steve call Mike Michae, and Mike call Nick Nicky. Both of them are very American nicknames.
American or Russian nickname. Considering the background at the time, this group of Russians who grew up in the United States may have been branded with contradictions from birth.
4. Dancing
During the wedding celebration, when Mike looked at Linda, a red-haired girl was staring at him (probably the red-haired girl Stanley said Mike didn’t do to her), and then Nick gave Linda a Mike went to dance, danced with the red-haired girl, and saw Mike take Linda away to drink, his expression was a little subtle, as if his brother could finally make a girl.
5. The bride
Angela got pregnant when they got married, but Steve and Nick swear he never touched her. Stanley knew that Angela might have gotten it from his girlfriend, and then he chewed his tongue everywhere. So maybe everyone celebrates, loves, and blesses the new couple, including the priest, but behind everyone knows (or mocks) that the groom is the "new" lady's successor.
5. Photos
The director sent off the party before Huan set off. When he was captured, the Russian turntable. After returning, at the bowling alley, there are people in the photo in the background quietly looking at the people outside the photo. I don't know what it means.
Mike watched everyone dancing happily on the court while quietly getting himself drunk like an outsider. He looked at Nick’s pictures on the wall for a few seconds, and then turned his gaze on the dancing Nick and Linda. At this time, in the perspective, He is opposite to his own picture, with the dancing couple in the middle. Linda quickly noticed this gaze, which made her feel a little uncomfortable (Aunt May played really well here!), she seemed to feel Mike’s "deer hunter" gaze, and she was the deer. (But why look at Nick's picture)
In the captured Russian turntable game, behind Mike is a picture of Ho Chi Minh. Hu Xming's gaze seems to be looking at the card table. There are various banknotes and watches on the table. Maybe it has formed a certain ironic effect with Hu Xming's publicity? Nick is facing Mike and Ho Chi Minh above Mike's head, so from his perspective, the conflict between the two divisions is very obvious.
6. Amnesia
Nick looked at the soldiers' bodies outside the window being carried back to the country. When asked about his name, he was already in a daze. When asked about his parents’ birthday, he suddenly broke down, probably because at this time he realized that he could not remember the past. , And before leaving, he said to Mike that he loves this ghost place in his hometown very nervously, so he asked Mike "no matter what he becomes, don't leave him there."
Finally, when Mike found him, he asked what his surname was. Nick couldn’t remember anymore. Mike said "come home", but the boy who loved the family shot down and didn’t go back. When the opportunity to go home was before his eyes , Choose to stay in Vietnam forever.
7. Elephants in Zigong
At the prostitute’s house, Nick was suddenly attracted by the wood-carved elephant on the street (I think this wood statue also has some meaning), and then said I was going to catch an elephant, and ran away without doing work, but he ran down and didn’t catch the elephant. . In connection with the front, he likes all kinds of trees and various tree shapes. Does it seem that he thinks the best shape of trees when he was in Vietnam?
After Mike saw the money and the elephant sent by Nick, he suddenly asked Steve to go home. It should be because he decided to go to Nick, and Steve needed someone to take care of him. He didn’t have time to stay here and let history slowly. Steve recovers. In this way, if something goes wrong with him, Steve may stay here for the rest of his life, escaping from the family. It is better to take advantage of his ability to force Steve out of the shadows and return home. Steve was very resistant at first, but he quickly succumbed, perhaps thinking that his life was saved by this man...
8. Mike and Nick's game
The reflections of the two games were very strong. In the first game, Mike was fierce and fanatical. He enthusiastically encouraged Nick to muster the courage to shoot, abandon the weakness of human nature, and use the lives of the two to bet the probability of their survival. . Mike roared when he squeezed the trigger, and Nick was on the verge of collapse with horror. The two shot each shot. The third shot Mike hit the Vietnamese was live ammunition.
In the second game, Mike was tired and earnest. He begged Nick to regain his humanity and stop shooting. Mike said when he pulled the trigger, "Is this what you want?" "I love you, Nick." The trigger was pulled slowly, and the empty gun sounded, and he was relieved. At this time, he and Nick shot all the shots. In the third shot, Nick performed Mike's "one shot" as Mike's friend, live ammunition.
After 40 years of time gap and 400 years of cultural gap between China and the West (it doesn’t need to be 4,000 years, it hurts more), the whole film makes me feel almost non-existent, because it’s not the same as my life experience. Place, I can feel a little bit...death crisis?
Anyway, I am not familiar with the background of the times and culture, so let's look at it from Mike's point of view. He was originally a person who was not comfortable with the status quo. He was a little maverick in the town-likes a deadly shot, likes to take risks, and decathlon, physical strength is very good in doing everything, maybe some look down on it. (But there is no contempt at all, just an objective evaluation of their failures) Several other mediocre partners.
In spirit, Mike is like an outsider among this group of people. No one fully understands him, but everyone will admire him (except Stanley). Nick thinks Mike is more alternative but it is this alternative that gives him a sense of security (Nick: I like Mike It makes me feel very safe. Mike’s strong independent personality is Nick’s spiritual pillar, which is particularly prominent in Vietnam. Mike himself is very clear about this kind of intimacy: I don’t want other people to hunt, they don’t understand the true meaning of "one shot" (that is, these people are not pursuing the mediocrity), and I only work with my quick-responsive companions (he sees) In terms of Nick’s conditions, I think this group of people is more suitable to accompany myself), but without you, I will go hunting in the mountains alone (although I admire you very much, I am not indispensable for you).
This sense of independence makes Mike not too fond of being involved in the scene of everyone's celebration, and more willing to observe them, and then get himself drunk by a cup. At the wedding, he and Nick, who had always been at the center of the celebration, formed a bright and dark contrast. But Mike is really a good person and a natural hero. He likes everyone very much, perhaps more than everyone likes him, and is extremely responsible. He is like a guardian of everyone.
After Mike came back, Linda said she wanted Nick to be with him. It seemed that everyone had a tacit understanding that Mike was the one who guarded those two friends because he was very strong.
However, after being captured, no matter if McDonald is strong, the three of them are "deer". The Vietnamese have a "one shot" with a one-sixth probability. They hit it, kills with one move, misses it, and wait for the next one. one-sixth. Mike has gone through two rounds of the Russian carousel. Looking at the analysis, this can be a metaphor for the soldiers who have survived a rain of bullets and are dragged to the next.
And the motivation for the soldiers who survived to take the initiative to participate in the next deadly battle, just like Mike showed, is actually to survive, only to fight with their trusted companions, and they and their companions may die. Escape. This is the sophistry of war.
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