Nether Front

Bianka 2022-11-10 09:31:15

I remember when I was a student, my first thought after watching "Blair Witch" was: "Oh my God! What a bad movie! It's so mysterious, and the ending is inexplicable! Audience, what happened to the last shadow drifting by? Is it fun to waste more than an hour of our time?”

The above is my impression from 1999. Eight years later, the director obviously wants to play it again, but the theme of witch is old There was no reason for it, so he turned his brain to the 9/11 air disaster in the United States, and used the CIA to send a CIA operative and a group of well-armed troops to the Middle East on the grounds that al Qaeda had found powerful weapons in the Afghan desert. Mission to the most inhospitable environment in the world. The result can be imagined, they were all destroyed by "unknown force" in the end, and after reading it, they still didn't understand what the other party was. The direction of the plot remains unchanged.

There is a lot of first-person narration throughout the film, which is a labor-saving method for the director, because he does not need to spend more space to describe the mental journey of each actor, and the audience can see it effortlessly, which is his improvement. This film later only won the technical award in the photography category, which is obviously a step backward compared with his famous work "Blair Witch". After all, a person who only speaks about phenomena and is unwilling to explain them will be disgusted by people both in reality and in movies.

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  • Benjamin Keynes: Habban is highly respected among the local population. He is considered the spiritual force that helped the Mujahideen defeat the Soviets.

    Sgt. Vincent Degetau: [mocking the CIA operative] I thought the CIA was the spiritual force that helped them defeat the Soviets?

    [chuckles]

    Benjamin Keynes: That depends on, uh, your definition of spiritual, Seargent.

    [dead-eye stare toward Degetau]

  • Chief Warrant Officer Wally Hamer: Remember, once we hit the ground this is a meet and greet. We smile at the locals, we hand out pens, we win hearts and minds. We're not door-kicking on this one, everybody understand?