This story tells us that to be successful, we must become the oldest donkey in the forest.

Allen 2022-01-26 08:09:35

There are four male characters in the film, only Vasily won the title of hero in the end, who will remember the other three?

In order to facilitate the explanation, I will briefly introduce them one by one:
1. Our Jude Law actor, that is, the actor who plays Vasili, of course, he is also the hero in this film
2. The excavator of Vasili, the initiator: Dani Love, I don't know which subtitle group, took a very powerful title: Political Commissar
3. Vasily's opponent, German sharpshooter officer so-and-so (can't remember the name)
4. Vasily's admirer, a clever named Sasha Smart boys and children

In fact, these four people, from different perspectives, can be heroes.
However, as the saying goes, the one who has the last laugh is the most successful.
Danilov, like Vasily, was deeply in love with the heroine Tania, but morality and contrition made his heroic sacrifice.
This reminds me of one of my favorite lines between Vasili and Tania,

Vasili: Everyone here knows they're going to die, so every night they come back living as if they were one kind of reward. So every cup of tea, every cigarette, becomes a little celebration. Because for most of us, this might be our last night. That's what you have to accept here. Everyone has their time. In the forest, a wolf can live for three years, a donkey can live for nine years, and the donkey lives longer because he is more useful.

Tania: Then you mean, I should be a donkey

Vasily: You who have been educated and read should live. Because after the war, you will be more useful.

Tania: What about you? What is your aspiration?

Vasily: I will go to the factory. The worst thing you can do is to have a dream you know can't come true.

Tania: Why can't it come true? You will be the oldest living donkey in the forest.

. . . . . .

So she was right. Under the sacrifices of Danilov and Sasha, Vasily succeeded in killing his opponent in order to realize the highest ideal of the Comintern, and held the beauty back.


This story tells us that to be successful, we must become the oldest donkey in the forest.
The end of the story would then be: And they all lived happily ever after.

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Extended Reading
  • Jalyn 2022-03-23 09:01:29

    The famous former Soviet sniper Vasily played by Jude Law is really too accent.

  • Karl 2022-03-23 09:01:29

    A typical film of a sniper, a typical story of a sharpshooter. Classic Vasily. (Joseph Fiennes, why would you snatch a woman from Jude Law)

Enemy at the Gates quotes

  • Vassili Zaitsev: [narrating] Autumn, 1942. Europe lies crushed beneath the Nazi jackboot. The German Third Reich is at the height of its power. Hitler's Armies are charging through the heart of the Soviet Union towards the oil fields of Asia. One last obstacle remains, a city on the Volga, where the fate of the world is being decided - Stalingrad.

  • Nikita Khruschev: Look at him with pride, because he's looking at you. The whole country is looking at you.