In recent years, the development of war films in my country has stagnated, and many people's most intuitive impressions of domestic war films are still those very classic old films produced by Bayi Film Studio. The large-scale counterattack on the plains full of justice and upward, the heroic portrayal of Gao Daquan, and the heroic evergreen spirit of pines and cypresses are classics and symbols. However, today's war films can no longer meet the audience's demand for stimulating perception. The emergence of "Saving Private Ryan" has a strong visual impact and excavation of the weak humanity in the war, subverting the single portrayal of war in the previous films, and becoming a new digger of war films. For most Chinese audiences, this film gave a brand new shock to the audience.
At the beginning of the film, under the American flag fluttering in the wind, when the old Ryan came to the solemn cemetery to cherish the memory of the dead comrades in arms, the neat rows of white cross tombstones themselves gave a strong shock, as if they were gone. The loyal soul straddles the neat square formation of time and space, and has experienced a cross-time dialogue with the elderly Ryan who has come over. Then the camera stepped closer to the eyes of the elderly Ryan. This is a beautiful transition. Back in time and space in 1944, when the army of millions was about to land on Omaha Beach, the director did not use conventional aerial photography to show the magnificent scenes of the battle, because that would not be able to truly portray the tragic nature of the war itself. The film’s processing method is unique. It is first presented to the audience with a trembling hand. What does it express? The trembling hand vented out the intuitive expression of the tension and psychological fear as a soldier on the battlefield. This general anxiety and tension was "diffused" by the lens of this hand and appeared in the whole cabin that was shaking. Soldiers praying to God, soldiers vomiting violently, rained down from the cannonballs, and the anxious and painful atmosphere made the suffocation of the war instantly hit.
As soon as the back door of the cabin was opened, the flying bullet pierced the helmet of the soldier in front. Before I had time to take a look at what war was, death and war came so suddenly that people were caught off guard quickly. The director uses a special shooting technique to interpret this war and death. It uses hand-held photography to simulate human visual height and the restless sense of shaking. In the film, Captain Miller sees the entire battlefield through the eyes of Captain Miller: a soldier who fell into the water was hit by a bullet shot into the water or Being entangled in heavy objects, unable to get out, suffocated alive. A soldier was finally rescued from the water. He was killed by a flying bullet as soon as he exposed his head to the surface of the water and said thank you. When Captain Miller dragged his companion who had broken a leg on the battlefield, the person dragged behind was only half of his body after an explosion, and the one who was hit in the head as soon as he took off his helmet was somewhat dramatic. , Or later the soldier who watched the bayonet pierce his heart because of his powerlessness. This is the real battlefield, the real death, the fate of the next moment is completely unknown at the last moment, and the death on the battlefield is such an instant thing. So fast, so suddenly. Inability to change. When the film appeared in the silent state of silence for a moment, we looked around at the tragic scene through Captain Miller's dizzy eyes. The whole war could no longer be described with consternation. All the viewers' minds were left blank, which was unacceptable. Everyone who was still calm the moment before came to hell. For the first time, the audience felt like they were actually on the battlefield. The flesh and blood flying around, the real tragic and urgent rhythm quickly pulled the audience into the atmosphere. The strong visual impact and extremely realistic sound effects gave everyone a huge impact on the soul, desperately not daring to look directly. And Captain Miller's painful silent vision finally turned back to the real and fierce battlefield during a soldier's questioning "Captain, what should we do now".
The twenty minutes of the beach war portrayed at the beginning of the film, people have to admire Spielberg's mastery skills from the bottom of their hearts. Back then, when the famous American photographer Robert Capa went to the war-smoked European battlefield and took the risk of shooting back the famous "Landing in Normandy", the visual deterrence it gave people was just to stop. In front of a black-and-white picture, and decades later, when director Si Shi stopped in front of it, he continued to extend and expand his deep emotional and infinite imagination of this old photo. The history of the passing wind gradually becomes clear again before our eyes, three-dimensional, and plump. It shook our visual nerves, and also shook our contemporary minds that have tended to be forgotten. War, this word that can fully arouse the infinite sensory and physiological stimulation of young people, what kind of thing is it?
"Good sight." Yes, good sight. This is what Captain Miller said after the war. War, excitement? Maybe. But what a sight this is! When a large-scale battle was over, and when this familiar music sounded again, the director was finally willing to give a panoramic view of the aerial photography of the battle. What we saw was the corpses all over, the blood flowing into a river, and the air. The scene filled with blood and rain, this is the real war, this is the most real side of the war. It is not the Cs that you hit against the computer screen, nor is it a so-called sensory stimulation, it is real, death. If you fall down and die, you will never be able to stand up and start over again as you did in the game. die. So in the sound of melancholic music filled with even the wind, let’s look back again: when the exceptionally tragic panorama presented in front of your eyes and the neat rows of white crosses in front of Old Ryan in the cemetery When the tombstones overlapped, did you feel a deep shock? Can you feel that it is the loyal soul that has passed away once again neatly spreading across time and space? The war is far away, the hero has fallen asleep, has fallen asleep. They slept in France, in Normandy, a foreign land they had set foot on, they came from far away across the ocean, they fought here, fell here, and finally slept here. I don’t know if they were silently chanting the distant hometown at the moment they fell and left, but today, the hometown, the motherland’s call to these fallen martyrs is so fluttering on the French soil. American flag, they didn't wait until the moment they went home. When a few years later, Ryan, who had gone through the war, walked the distance blocked by the waves and returned to this familiar land again. He saw that on this French land, beside the French flag, The neat and solemn array of tombstones is always facing the flying American flag, stubbornly and loyally like a sunflower, watching and saluting!
I want to go home! This is the most urgent and inner thought of every soldier who is going through the war. Perhaps before they had experienced the shocking, they had infinite vision of war and felt that it was really a man's thing. Then, when they really stood on the battlefield, they would never feel that this was something to show off and excitement. The value of life, the warmth and tranquility of the home, how beautiful those are! Why did you turn a blind eye before? On this battlefield where the bullets are so fierce that they can't breathe, home and God have become the belief that supports every soldier and perseverance, and they have also become the softest part of their hearts that they have been thinking until the last moment. Reiben, the first soldier who died in the rescue team, was at war with the Germans, but he died in order to save a little German girl who had never known each other. It was barely exposed to the guns of the Germans. Miller and the others had warned him rigorously, don't do this, we are fighting, we can't bring a child. However, he did it. He didn't consider whether it was worth it from beginning to end. It was just out of instinct and kind instinct. He remembered that when Miller warned him, he held the girl and walked down the ruins. He said, I don’t know, this The child reminds me of my niece. When he was lying unable to move in the cold rain and realizing his situation, he begged his comrades with difficulty to send a letter to my father. Sudden death may not wait to be afraid that everything is over, and wait for the moment of death to approach, or helplessly face the life being pulled away from the body little by little. This kind of waiting can be said to be the most desperate in the world. At such a moment, Lai Ben's helpless pleading voice was mixed with the cold rain, which hurt everyone's heart. There is also the doctor who saved many people on the battlefield but couldn't save himself. The unknown soldier whose intestines exploded all over the place, at the end of their lives, shouted in pain and despair: Mom, Mom.
mother! In their hearts, this soft and warm appellation is a symbol of home and a warm bearing. When the squad stopped in the twilight, its tired and tense footsteps during the day and finally rested, in the candlelight almost all the soldiers talked about family, love and miss for home at this moment. Yes, in this difficult task, home and God are the same, it is a kind of belief, you can fight for it, you can also stand for it. Just like the reason that Captain Miller gave when he insisted on releasing the German prisoners of war: I always felt that every time one more person was killed, one would be farther away from home and the road back home would be longer. 00
Miller is a battle-tested veteran. He has faced the war most directly, and the indelible painful memory that war has caused him the most. This is most directly reflected in the hands that tremble as soon as they appear on the field. This hand and Miller itself are both symbols used by the director. As a veteran, the director used Miller's eyes, hands and thoughts to interpret the war. He is a teacher, and he tried his best to stick to the most basic moral bottom line in this war, so he decided to let go of the German prisoners of war and try not to imagine the consequences. He didn't know if he let go of the German in front of him, he would not be in the future. Will return to fight again, but he knows one thing, that is, killing one more person, the longer the way home. However, one person's persistence is so small and helpless for the strength of the entire huge war. Don't talk about left and right, you can't expect to stop the crazy gears of the powerful war wheel. Miller is more helpless. When the two Germans who surrendered raised their hands to request, the Americans shot and killed them without letting them say anything. After mastering the control of the war, the U.S. military's anti-killing of the Germans was almost crazy. They survived the horror of death and the baptism of war, but they were still able to keep their faces in the path of the massacre, or jokingly. War is the place where humanity is best displayed. All people became mad under the high pressure of the war. No one can blame this. Who can blame this? War, to put it bluntly, is a game manipulated by politicians. It is a matter for the highest decision-makers, and everyone on the front lines of war is just a pawn in this crazy game. No one is right or wrong. Did you say that the Germans were wrong? Yes, it was Hitler's business, but the German soldiers on the battlefield, like the American soldiers, were fighting for the motherland. Are the Americans wrong? No, they are fighting for the freedom of people all over the world. What's wrong with this? But are they right? This is not a matter for frontline soldiers. Whether they are German soldiers or American tycoons, they are all here for the call of the motherland, and for the call and belief of the motherland, they are completely lost in this shocking battlefield. They are not tired of it, and they are completely lost in politics. . Only those who are still struggling to be rational will chew pain more than others.
What Miller can do is to wave his hands desperately when the U.S. military is shooting frantically at the ditch, "STOP, STOP, STOP". He is a soldier, unable to change anything. More often than not, despite endless doubts in his heart, he It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. "I don't understand. Each of us has a mother, and Captain Miller also has it. I don't understand, why should we sacrifice us for another son?" Miller did not speak, but he was still wondering in his heart. But he knew that this was an order. 8 people save one, is it worth it? This is a question that everyone is pondering. Retreating from the intense stimulus in front of the breathless rhythm, the film slowly opened the curtain in this question. The apparently slowing down of the rhythm makes all the audiences who have not yet eased their minds involuntarily, always with this curiosity and doubts in the process of watching the movie. For those people in the war, they didn't have time to think about it. This is an order, okay, let's do it. The squad led by Miller can be said to be the epitome of all the soldiers of World War II. The director is very clever. He uses such a visual corner and generality to tell a war.
The eight people, like saviors descending from the sky, slowly walked out from the sky and walked on the road of salvation this time, but they were not gods after all. The true state of a person in war is varied, cowardly, courageous, despicable, and sublime. A sniper with many shots, his signature action before each attack: kissing the cross, as if praying to God for life, but in the end he still did not escape death. The doom of human beings, it is impossible for people to change the outcome of the war on their own. Translator Ertim, cowardice is almost shameful, almost everyone is heartbroken for his cowardice, but can he be to blame? When Miller first found him, he was just a civilian sitting in an office. He told Miller that he had never received war training. It is natural for such a person to face war and death at such close range. There are real fears on the real battlefield, and not everyone is a hero of Gao Daquan. "Save Ryan" is just an introduction to a 120-minute story of eight people. Their deaths were caused by war. What is really heinous is the war itself. Under such a story, it is the director. And the strong anti-war sentiment of all peaceful people.
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