"I look at myself in this uniform in the mirror. I don't know who I am. Do I look like a hero? I don't feel it."
In the first half, Michael Bay skillfully applies the techniques of action movies to emotional scenes. It is deep and fierce, not sloppy, and at the same time affectionate, poignant and warm. It is very suitable for the love that sprouts under the background of war. I didn't expect "Boom Shell" to have such a sentimental side before. With his brush strokes, his emotions and battles are free and easy. Here, he is both a lover and a small clever. Panoramic composition, smoke with light and shadow, backlit silhouette, multi-color and single tone, of course, indispensable slow motion and awesome line soundtrack, Michael Bay of that period was simply the best-selling author of the mass production epic on the assembly line. From the end of the last century to the beginning of this century, it was the golden age of movies that I miss the most. In this movie of this era, Josh Harnett is young and determined, and Kate Beckinsale is shining. In the second half, Michael Bay finally picked up his housekeeping skills. He is like the crazy conductor of a symphony orchestra, closed his eyes and devoted himself, turning himself into the center of an endless vortex, pouring out a budget of 140 million with extreme efforts. Too real, too tragic, to show the insignificance of life before the war, the helplessness of the flesh and blood under the steel and shells, chaos, daze, panic, despair, and sluggishness are intertwined and biting... The tension before the war , The panic when the war comes and the illusory emotions are intertwined. The use of filters and focal lengths creates a purgatory dream in which you can't tell whether you are alive or dead. There is no time to think about it, and you can't help but resist numbly. Here, only mechanical instinct drives you forward. Wailing, roaring, screaming, and painful one after another. Forty minutes of high-pitched battle scenes, with nearly one-third of the space to describe such a tragic and tragic experience of gushing plasma and adrenaline, even a documentary is absolutely rare. The first half was originally a very well-rendered emotional drama, but compared with the subsequent explosive war drama, it turned out to be a bit redundant. To say that there are of course shortcomings, and they are also a bit dazzling, that is, the editing is somewhat lacking in stability. But the flaws don't cover up. I still don't understand whether a war movie should make people feel nauseous or nauseous, or it's better to make people move and excite. In my opinion, there is no such thing as the worst war and easy victory. In the face of any war, the damage caused is equal.
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