On June 25, 1941, the Soviet Air Force suddenly attacked the airports of 18 cities in Finland. After three years of repression, Finland officially declared war on the Soviet Union, and the war continued!
On August 31, 1941, Finnish troops arrived in Vyborg and announced that they would regain all territories lost in 1939.
On October 21, 1941, the Soviet city Petrozavodsk was captured.
On June 9, 1944, the Soviet Union began a counterattack in Karelia and broke through the Finnish defenses the next day.
In July 1944, the Finnish army retreated to the front at the end of the Winter War, and the Soviet Union ceased its attack on Finland.
As part of the Second World War, the war between Sufen and Finland is rarely known.
But there is such a story, it tells the whole process of Su Fen's "continuation of the war", and was remade three times into a movie, its name is "Unknown Soldier" .
After the Sufen Winter War in 1940, Finland lost the Karelia region, including Vyborg, Finland’s second largest city, and ceded the Rybach Peninsula in the Barents Sea, four islands in the Gulf of Finland, and part of the island. Pull the area and lease the Hanko Peninsula to the Soviet Union as a naval base for a 30-year lease.
In this regard, Finland has always been brooding, training recruits in the forest to wait for the opportunity to regain the territory. It wasn't until Germany blitzed the Soviet Union in June 1941 that Finland saw an opportunity to regain its territory and did not hesitate to launch an offensive against the Soviet Union.
From a historical point of view, Finland, which won international prestige during the Winter War, can completely make this film a hot-blooded war film that "offends our country, even if it is far away". But the 3-hour "Unknown Soldier" was filmed extremely restrained and calm. This "calmness" made people feel too plain and even boring.
In order to create this "calm" atmosphere, the tone of the whole film is almost dominated by dark and cool colors. This would also fit the character of Finland, a Nordic country, on the other hand, the gloomy picture can better express the dark side of war.
Not only that, but the objective and true lens brings the audience back to the tragic and cruel years of war.
The rain of bullets on the battlefield seemed to be in front of you,
The blood splattered after being blinded by the blow, the heart-wrenching cry,
Just take a bite of the bread raided from the corpse.
Even the wounded who were transported back could not escape the enemy's ambush and were brutally killed.
As a movie depicting the life of war, "Unknown Soldier" has no real protagonist, but every character is exactly the protagonist.
The timid and weak commander who first entered the battlefield was full of spirits after several victories; the recruits who grew up with the war went from ruthlessly shooting prisoners to learning to be compassionate and proactively placing their guns next to the wounded to relieve them. pain. There are also new recruits who are inexperienced to raise their heads too high and get headshot to death.
The most impressive of these is the veteran who has experienced many battles.
This veteran who had participated in the Winter War enlisted in the army again, and often dismissed the orders of his superiors.
But he took good care of his comrades, not only carefully taught the newly transferred recruits how to patrol, but also braved the bullets to carry the injured comrades back across the river.
Don't look at people's appearance of old fritters all day long, the war is not at all ambiguous. Not only is the posture of holding the gun extremely practical, but the tactics of clearing the trenches are also very accurate and efficient.
Obviously he has a good ability to make great achievements in war, but he doesn't care:
If you want to be a hero, I don't care about that kind of thing. I only move forward when I need it, otherwise I just lie on my stomach. We are not here to be killed, but to kill.
What he really cares about is the three children at home and the wife who is about to give birth.
When he finally went home to take care of his wife and children on vacation, he did not forget to harvest the rye in the fields at home together, and this scene is a rare warm-toned scene in the whole film.
"The Unknown Soldier", which has no real protagonist, portrays the unique characteristics of each character. Even after watching the movie, we still can't remember their names, but their distinctive personalities can be deeply remembered.
This seemingly "weakening" of a single character's way of telling is actually telling us the impact of war in the most straightforward way: the helplessness and sorrow of ordinary people in the face of war, as well as the loss of relatives and lives. Of confusion.
This kind of influence is actually something we can't see in superhero movies, because those superheroes who are overwhelmed with fighting capacity and can come back from the dead are more often concerned not about bread, but how to defeat the enemy.
Maybe we will feel passionate and excited when watching these superhero movies, and we are looking forward to one day we can be a hero and help the weak, but they will not tell us how much it takes to be a glorious hero. cost.
Even though Finland has a reputational advantage in this war, in "Unknown Soldier" we can hardly see a large-scale Soviet army. Only a few small Soviet soldiers occasionally remind us that this is a game between countries. Of war.
This deliberate refusal of the enemy’s image is quite similar to Nolan’s "Dunkirk" last year. The original intention of this is to let the audience reflect on the impact of the war and cherish the hard-won peace. Instead of creating hostility.
After this war, Finland chose to maintain a neutral foreign policy, even during the East-West Cold War. Such far-reaching impact is enough to show how deep the scars of the Finnish people are brought by the war.
The veteran once said this scar in one word: war is terrible for both sides, it doesn't matter who started it, and all those who experience it will suffer.
When the veteran returns home after the war, his wife flies into his arms, and his daughter's eyes are happy, we will understand that home is the most worthy thing to protect.
Text/Leng Zimo
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