1. I especially like these two paragraphs:
(1) During the trial, approached and looked down at the three soldiers in turn and listened to their answers. Obviously it is the judge's perspective, but it is so close that it triggers the audience's guilty conscience and a strong experience of "being ashamed of being a human being".
(2) Before the execution, the soldier walks to the execution rack. Is this the "Road of Glory"? The sky and the earth are vast, the sun is shining, the ceremony is solemn, the gunfire is neat, and it is indeed brilliant.
2. Conversation with my friend during the movie viewing: Me: Men like war, do they like war in which he can be a general instead of a low-ranking soldier? Friend: No. What he likes is the fun of cannon fodder, witnessing violence, committing violence, and accepting the ravages of violence - "death drive". See the article "Why People Love War" ( https://lucunji.github.io/2020/09/21/why-men-love-war-translation/ ). Me: "For a man, on some horrific level, it comes closest to what childbirth is to a woman: into the power of life and death", which reminds me of the second season of "London Living" Classic line "Women's pain is innate... Men's pain needs to be found by themselves... So they fight to make each other feel pain."
Friends say yes.
So in the second half of the movie, I watched them fight and kill, as if they were watching a "boy's game"; then I watched them lose and cry; in the end, I watched them get their souls redeemed by the beautiful singing.
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