But after watching it, I watched it again immediately! Because I noticed my own narrowness and viewed it too subjectively, the content seriously deviated from my presupposition!
Why is Miller determined to save Ryan?
Because this is in line with his philosophy of war. There is no doubt that after years of war, he is a calm, professional and resolute soldier, a captain who is currently arranging troops and commanding Ruo Ding. However, before the war, he was an English teacher who would play baseball with children and teach for more than ten years in the sunny spring! Imagine a person who originally lived a stable life, who was generous and kind, was thrown into a cruel and merciless war machine, facing blood, cruelty, death, and ugliness of human nature (when commanding Omaha Beach to take down, two US troops The soldier laughed and shot and killed an unarmed German Czech prisoner). What faith did he rely on (he saw the shooting of the prisoner, and instantly showed a disgusting but helpless expression)? How did he persuade himself to take up a gun on the battlefield, and without hesitation, end the lives of those young soldiers who were "enemy" but who were in fact embroiled by the war that he sympathized with? Under the intensive shooting of the enemy, someone would be shot and fall when he knew that he rushed out, but as a captain, he still organized the next charge of the department. How did he explain to himself that these compatriots should be sacrificed? It is undoubtedly a very painful thing to do something contrary to one's own nature.
To survive tenaciously on the battlefield, you need to have your own "war philosophy" to guide yourself and comfort yourself as a spiritual program: the deaths he caused and the passing of lives he witnessed are meaningful.
So, that night in the church, he said to Horvath:
"Whenever a brother dies, tell yourself that this can save two, three, four, or ten lives, or even a hundred people. Do you know how many men died when I was in charge? Ninety-four. But Does that mean that I have saved ten times as many people? Or even twenty times? It’s that simple. That’s how to rationalize the choice between tasks and subordinates.”
(When you end up killing one of your men ,you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two,three,or ten others.Maybe 100 others. Do you know how many men I've lost under my command? 94.But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20,right? 20 times as many? And that's how simple it is. That's how you rationalise making the choice between the mission and the men. )
See here, I suddenly Cheerful. For him, the meaning of war lies in-"salvation". Sacrificing a teammate may mean that two teammates will be killed later. The sacrifice is also an indirect rescue: on the way to save Ryan, a German army ambush was found under the bunker of an abandoned radar station, and Miller immediately took off. Heavy combat uniforms need to organize a quick raid. The subordinates questioned this, this is not their task, they only need to make a detour to avoid the enemy's machine guns. He replied:
"Yes, we can take a detour, but Merissy, do you want to do this? Let our other teammates be attacked?"
(I hear what you're saying, but we can not go around it ..... Is it what you want to do, Mellish? Leave it here so they can ambush another company?)
So he does not allow himself and cowardice hesitate. At the beginning of the film, the difficulty and bloodshed of conquering the stalls reflected his firm will:
-What should I do, sir?
-Quickly attack the Shanghai embankment!
—I want to stay!
-Speaking of the beachhead first!
—Going out is dead! Everywhere on this beach has been targeted!
-There is no doubt that you will die if you stay!
—Why not just blindfold us?
—All we can do is rush out and desperately!
In his opinion, he is indistinguishable from his subordinate soldiers. He is also ready to sacrifice at any time, because sacrifice to him also means salvation. Horvath, who was loyal to him, offered to run for him in the center line (because the center line is facing the enemy's gunfire is the most dangerous), he did not hesitate to refuse.
Horvath: Maybe I should go up the middle?
He: The way you run? I don't think so.
Horvath: Maybe I should go left, sir.
He: Maybe you should shut up!
But he is also afraid of himself Will become a numb killing machine, war will make him look like himself, so he is not willing to kill indiscriminately. When a German soldier was captured in an abandoned radar station, he and his comrades clashed fiercely about whether to kill the captive:
"You want to give up looking for Ryan, you want to fight? I only know that every time you kill Alone, the farther I leave my home."
(By You want to the Leave? By You want to Go Fight at The OFF and the WAR?
The I the Just know that the kill with the I Every man, Away from Home at The farther the I Feel.)
He hopes in their own relentless war still maintain a lover Heart, war is for homeland and for a better life:
"So I think my actions have changed some of the world. Sometimes I think, if I change enough, one day, I will return to my wife. At the time, she was still able to recognize and love me.”
(So I guess I've changed some.Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even going to recognise me whenever I get back to her. )
His salvation is not about the separation of barriers between the enemy and us, and I will save the world by defeating you on behalf of justice, but the universal meaning of "save":
"This Ryan is better worthy of our rescue. After he returns home best to practice the invention or save what lamp longevity. "
(This Ryan BE HAD better better Go Home Worth it.He'd s disease and Cure or some longer-lasting Invent a Light-bulb or something.)
Do not you see battlefield campaign Suffering, I still remember General Li.
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