Love, family and personal destiny are worthless in the face of cruel war.
About the first fifteen minutes of the movie, the dull breathing underground, the continuous shelling sound, and the slightly lengthy narrative made people feel depressed to not want to watch it. However, a group of miners, miners living like mice in the gloomy underground, they all had a bright and beautiful life.
The story told by the two main lines interspersed and finally reached a climax in the last half an hour.
Glory and dreams in war.
Ninety feet of darkness and invisible smoke of gunpowder underground.
Everyone has extraordinary tenacity and courage, and they carry the mission and irresistible orders of the country. They carry photos of their wives or girlfriends and mothers, which are bright in the dark and warmth in coldness.
War means casualties. Even to some extent it means the tombstone of the vast majority of soldiers.
The old father is dead.
Billy Scud is dead.
Finally Tiffin died too.
One will succeed in everything.
[What you hear is your own heartbeat]
Goodbye to prepare time.
Farewell to life and death.
People like Oliver are born to be commanders.
And people like Tiffin are more ordinary people, not mature teenagers. Facing war, I’ll be afraid, cry when facing shells and explosives flying over my head, carry a birdcage like a child, get lost, walk at the end of the line, and make a small wooden box for Oliver’s girlfriend. His dream is to become a little carpenter after he walks out of the mine.
But he did not walk out of the mine tunnel. Facing the upcoming blasting and death, he held the last candle in the last mine tunnel, muttering "What you hear is your own heartbeat." Is it self-deception or comfort or bravery.
Oliver couldn't save him, he personally pressed the blasting gate.
His comrades-in-arms can't save him, everyone is a pawn in the war.
After a few seconds, Tiffin's heartbeat also stopped with popping noise and rolling fire smoke.
[You experience how helpless life is] The
film comes from a real story:
"On June 17, 1917, Oliver Woodward and his comrades exchanged blood and tears for the 19-minute explosion that created the largest explosion in the world’s history. An artificial blast, the length of the explosion stretched quite from London to Dublin." The
following subtitles made me sigh:
"This battle was the biggest victory of the Allied Powers during World War I. The German army regained 60 positions after a month and a half. The death toll in this war was 16 million
.
Victory and defeat are a cloud of smoke.
Glory and dreams cannot be judged.
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