God is on his side

Fabiola 2022-03-18 09:01:02

Hacksaw Ridge is adapted from real events. The World War II military doctor Dawes refused to carry any weapons on the battlefield. In the end, he saved 75 lives in the Battle of Okinawa and won the honor of the Supreme Congress. He was also the first medical soldier who refused to kill on the battlefield to receive this honor.
Director Lao Ji created an atypical hero through the conflict of faith and the reality of its enemy. Tired of the born and stalwart soldiers in Iliad Homer’s epic, war films gradually focus on portraying the epic struggles of small people and even seemingly disadvantaged groups. The movie has a long-lost layout of a neat and grand battlefield, a legendary true story, and an American theme that is not annoying. This seemingly naive and stupid idealist without a bullet, after the retreat of the first battle troops, was alone looking for the surviving comrades among the piles of corpses. His hands were worn blood by the thick rope he used to transport the wounded comrades down the cliff. , His nails were full of dirt. He bent over and carried a sanitary kit and shuttled through the trenches with gunpowder smoke, and he was saying let me save another one. At this time, you can only speak the word hero and you are speechless.
There is a very impressive clip. On the first night of the first battle, he and his comrades were sitting in the trenches. The comrades opened a can and asked him why he didn't eat. Dawes, whose face was dark and grey, smiled and waved his hand and said: I don't eat meat. Suddenly, I think what a respectable person, his beliefs cannot change the war, but the war has nothing to do with his seemingly most common beliefs.
Thinking of the Japanese soldiers interviewed in the memoirs in the film review, they always saw the dead health soldier on the front line to save people, but the bullets always stuck when they wanted to hit him. Maybe when the true believer appears, God is really on his side.

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Hacksaw Ridge quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Desmond Doss: Help me get one more.

  • Sgt Howell: I believe that any man who takes great *pride* in his natural naked state, will surely enjoy the *brisk* of the outdoors. Now move your *privates*, Private Parts!... Move it!... You son of an *exhibitionist*!