Lengthy preaching, sickly moaning

Trevor 2022-03-20 09:01:23

It's boring and long, pretending to be deep. The self-proclaimed Michelin meal is actually just a piece of rotten soap.

To be a coward and to set up a torii, the coward looks at the war from the moral high ground, and tries very unskilledly to explore human nature:

"What? War kills people, it's cruel!"

"As a soldier, I was sent to this island by a warship in full armor. It wasn't a vacation, and I was asked to kill someone?"

"Killing is against the law! How can I, as a soldier, kill the enemy?"

"I actually shot at the lively Japanese soldier who was shooting at me with a gun. I'm a murderer! I'm not pure!"

"If a person is shot to death, he will not move, and the brilliance of human nature will be gone!"

"Hatred and love, a person actually has different emotions, shouldn't there be only love like a saint? Isn't this world black and white, except for good people and bad people?"

There are a lot of pretentiously deep narrations and MTV-like scenes. It seems that things that can be explained in one sentence can be explained to you in a three-hour car wheel. In the first five minutes, I knew what the movie wanted to express, and then for more than two hours, I was expressing it over and over without any turning points or ups and downs.

This battle neither slaughtered civilians nor destroyed civilization monuments. It was neither extremely difficult nor very tragic. Why are there so many emotions? Why did the soldiers who finally boarded the ship were all dumbfounded and thoughtful as if their hearts were shaken and baptized.

Bad films are not scary, what is scary is bad films dressed up like classics, just like bad people are not scary, what is scary is scumbags.

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The Thin Red Line quotes

  • Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Rosy-fingered dawn. You're Greek, aren't you, Captain? Did you ever read Homer? We read Homer at the Point. In Greek.

  • Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: [voice over] Shut up in a tomb. Can't lift the lid. Playing a role I never concieved.