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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Extended Reading
  • Willow 2021-10-26 03:30:48

    There has never been a World War II movie that is as meaningful. The perspective of the stream of consciousness and the vague narration of the person are not at all pretentious and artificial. Poetry and aphasia coexist, war and humanity coexist, this is the best footnote left by this film for the history of World War II film. In addition, I have to lament that the CC selection is really "spicy".

  • Tyrese 2022-04-23 07:01:27

    The film was nominated for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound, Editing and Score at the 71st Academy Awards. Poetic anti-war film, but bad in the background of the story. There is nothing wrong with being anti-war, but it is against World War II. Just imagine, what would the world be like if the Allies did not resist in this war and let the Axis powers ravage it? ! If this film was made by Japan, the country that started World War II, it would be a big cheer.

The Thin Red Line quotes

  • Pvt. Jack Bell: [voice over] We. We together. One being. Flow together like water. Till I can't tell you from me. I drink you. Now. Now.

  • Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: [praying] You're my light. My guide.