Desert Smoke

Dejon 2022-01-25 08:02:43

I watched "Black Hawk Down" again, and I felt as uncomfortable after watching it as it was the first time I watched it. Ledley Scott's technique is calm and shocking. What impressed me was a group of scenes at the end of the film: US military survivors passed through a crowd of Somali civilians and ran into the Pakistani base, surrounded by smoke. The director used slow motion, and the Americans were in shock, holding the trigger with their fingers, ready to fight back at any time; Somali civilians have long been accustomed to force, or indifferently or sarcastically looking at the embarrassed group of aliens covered in dust and blood. Two completely different expressions set off the living conditions of the two worlds. The music should be the singing of the native Africa. The bleak, remote, and the artistic conception of the desert is perfect, but at this time it is accompanied by a full range of war traumas, hitting the viewer's thinking heavily, making people unable to think, full of only war emanating. despair. It is also because of this that I have always watched war movies selectively, and some of them cannot bear this cruelty.

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Black Hawk Down quotes

  • [McKnight sees Schmid treating the injured Blackburn]

    McKnight: What happened to him?

    Schmid: He fell, missed the rope.

    McKnight: How'd he do that?

    [Schmid shrugs with an odd smirk]

  • [after Super 61 crashes]

    Harell: We got a black hawk down, we got a black hawk down.

    Matthews: Super 61 is down. We got a bird down in the city. Super 61 is on the deck now.