"For a politician, a soldier's life is just a number, but for a family, it is all of a mother."
This film is not only a commercial film about war, but also a philosophical film reflecting human nature and self-worth.
Spielberg directed a war film for the first time. He did not use the big vision and bird's-eye view to express the grandeur and majesty of war like previous war films, but focused on the description of small battlefields and small people. In the story, a tragic war is used at the beginning and at the end, most of which are interspersed with some drama conflict plots and literary drama. I will talk about it in detail below.
The first is the opening battle of Normandy. This was a major counteroffensive by the Allies in history. From a macro point of view, it should be magnificent and exciting, but Spielberg did the opposite, using handheld cameras. The way to shoot this group of scenes and interspersed with the first perspective of the male lead played by Tom Hanks, coupled with deafening gunfire and explosions, and temporary deafness caused by stimulation, without excessive rendering, without Exaggerated picture effects, everything is cold and concise, with a very strong sense of presence, there are no other emotions, and some are only cold and cruel. In addition, this scene also preliminarily explained the personality characteristics of each team member, Lieutenant Miller’s commanding ability, sniper Jackson’s calm and calmness, Horvath’s veteran, military doctor Wade’s bravery, Lebin’s astuteness, and Capazzo. The sensibility, Melly's hatred, except for the recruit Urban, who later appeared on the field.
From the landing battle until the finding of Ryan, there are interspersed literary drama and brief exchanges of fire to further characterize the characters. I was also impressed by the few fragments. First, when the medical soldier Wade died, the blood flowed continuously, and he kept shouting "Mom, I want to go home." It showed the cruelty of war and the loneliness of humanity at the time of the limit. heart of. Related to this paragraph is that in this battle, Captain Miller insisted on destroying the enemy army, and believed that the death of the medic Wade was entirely his own fault, so he cried out loudly, and in the death of Capazzo There is no excessive sadness in it. This clip also showed a German prisoner of war. When everyone was arguing, Miller chose to let go of the prisoner. He was a middle school teacher before joining the army, and the war constantly changed him, even his former occupation changed here. Into a bet. War amplifies the good and evil in human nature.
The last hour of the film is all in the same scene, from preparation to war, and then to the end, very neat. The director added a lot of details, such as the tranquility before the war, coupled with BGM, to the extreme beauty, such as the treatment of the prisoner who was released before, such as the eyes of Captain Miller when he died, as performed by Tom Hanks. Very brilliant.
In the film, Urban is undoubtedly a very brilliant character. He will try to release the prisoners based on the international conventions, and will speak in the church if the war is good for him, but when he finally has the opportunity to kill and save his comrades, what will he do? Can't do it either. The director used him to symbolize the attitude of ordinary people towards war. It was ideal at first, but once he really invested in it, he realized that nothing can be done by relying on innocence. So when he finally pulled the trigger, he wanted to understand. , But it was also changed by the war.
The whole movie is about something that is extremely uneconomical from a utilitarian point of view. That is, a team of eight people saved one person at the expense of six people. The director praised and praised the existence of humanity in it. The shining point of itself shows the cherishment of life by human beings, and it is also a blockbuster of American spiritual output. In fact, many multiple-choice questions of human beings are not simply equations or inequalities about numbers. If they tend to be absolutely rational, human beings are a cold machine, and it is the existence of this kind of sensibility that makes human beings In certain circumstances, making decisions and activities that may seem stupid but are great, and it is precisely because of this that we have a colorful and warm society built with sensibility.
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