By coincidence, I watched "Attack from the Bottom of the Sea".
The first time I read it in two parts. The atmosphere creation, character performance, conception, and group play scheduling are all unparalleled. The second time I set aside time to watch the whole film at a time, the rhythm, structure, details of the film... I feel more and more great.
From the Bottom of the Sea is a downright masculine movie. From the content to the form, from the characters to the idea, it is full of masculinity.
At the beginning of the film, the subtitles briefly introduced the background, and at the same time released the data-during World War II, more than 40,000 German submarine servicemen and 30,000 died in the Atlantic Ocean. The protagonists of the story are these submarine servicemen, and there are few civilian characters in the film. The will of man, the will of the soldier, is manifested in the green seabed, the storm of the vast ocean, and the shadow of death,
The film is narrated according to time, and the chapters are clear and unhurried. From the time when the submarine was ordered to go out to sea and began to introduce the crew on the boat; to the time when the destroyer fled and officially entered the war; to the time when the storm lost its direction, attacked the British cargo ship and nearly escaped and prepared to return to port, they were already a group of qualified soldiers; at this time However, they received an order to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, and the result of the implementation of this almost "sheep into the tiger's mouth" order was that the submarine was sunk and stranded on the seabed. Everyone worked together to restart the submarine and returned triumphantly. The will of man was brilliant at this moment; and the air force attacked at the next moment. , the submarine sank, and the strong man died almost comically.
There was no scheming and resourcefulness, no invincible spirit, after the brainwashing political discourse faded away, the war unfolded in front of these young German soldiers was the anxiety of not being able to find the enemy, the health problems and the oranges day after day, It was the sound of the destroyer's sonar moving away and approaching, the creaking of the submarine as if it was about to be squeezed into a solid iron block under the pressure of the deep water, the roar of the depth charge and the tremor of the submarine, the slamming of the water pipe joints. Open lasing water.
At the beginning of the film, when the submarine went to sea, the captain asked reporters not to take pictures, because these soldiers had no beards and were still "baby babies", fantasizing about facing the cruelty of reality and being a hero. After watching the film, when I went back to the beginning of the film, the captain and the crew had no mustache and gunpowder faces. The group portrait created the epitome of 40,000 young people who rushed to the battlefield one after another, became men, became soldiers, and died on the battlefield.
After watching the movie, I said to my friends, "From the Bottom of the Sea", and the recent "Our Fathers", how can Germany make such a good movie. My friend woke me up a little bit - that was Germany shooting itself. As the initiators of wars, and also as victims of wars, they may have more feelings about the cruelty of wars and the insignificance and greatness of people in wars.
People are very small, especially in war. However, the attitudes of people in war and fighting age are more vivid because of oppression and cruelty. Similarly, there is a saying in literature that "articles hate fate", which means that people who live comfortably often can't write any works, and they can't help but sigh.
The captain's attitude is masculine and stalwart. He has a position and is clear about the cruelty of the war and the political discourse of the head of state; he goes to war, but he also sympathizes with the lives of those on the British cargo ship who have not been rescued in time; he can decide, in a crisis, he chooses to send the chief engineer and reporters off the ship, and chooses to take with him All crossed the Strait of Gibraltar; he was a leader, convincing, respected and followed.
I suddenly remembered Wang Jiazhi in Lust and Caution. She's pretty much the opposite of the captain's image. She is not a typical character, too many random events happen to her and dominate her decisions. If someone gives a way, she will go down. So she joined the drama troupe, so she seduced Mr. Yi. The temptation failed or failed, and she lost her life in the mainland. Until she met her classmates and gave her a way, she seduced Mr. Yi again.
Piaoping in troubled times, she is a woman without a goal, a woman who does not feel her own existence and value. In a mission and mission, in the pain of Mr. Yi's confrontation, she clearly felt her existence. But she still didn't know what she wanted.
Until the end, she finds that Mr. Yi seems to love her. She didn't want to believe it, so she tested Mr. Yi, "Do you like the diamond I chose?" Mr. Yi said, "I'm not interested in diamonds, I just want to see them on your hands." Hearing this, she put on diamonds, the muscles on her face were stiff, a mixture of joy and pain. She subconsciously wanted to take the diamond off, she didn't think she was more valuable than this diamond. But Mr. Yi let her wear it, with an irrefutable explanation - "you are with me".
She really felt the love. The next moment, a sound woke her up suddenly. Mr. Yi was in the trap of death, and she subconsciously said "go away". Mr. Yi didn't understand. The expression on her face was with tangled joy, and her voice said very clearly, "Come on." She can no longer care about tasks, politics, morals, whether this person is heinous or not, whether she can live together forever, she can't care about anything, she can't let this person die.
According to rumors, when "Lust and Caution" was being filmed, Wang Jiazhi's actor was not decided, and Zhang Ziyi, who was already famous, was not selected. The reason is, she doesn't seem like the kind of person that would happen to such a story. My understanding is that Wang Jiazhi is soft, weak and ordinary, while Zhang Ziyi is tough and handsome.
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