This film tells the story of a group of British prisoners of war who built bridges in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the battlefield in Southeast Asia during World War II.
At the beginning of the film, the atmosphere of the Japanese prisoner of war camp was still very harmonious. As a Chinese citizen who has been under the influence of mainstream propaganda for a long time, I really feel that it is a bit too harmonious. . .
After that, our first protagonist, Colonel Nicholson, a British prisoner of war, appeared, with a solemn demeanor, which really did not look like a prisoner.
Due to the task of building bridges in the Japanese prisoner of war camp, we had to rely on the prisoners to meet the deadline. Our prisoner of war leader, Mr. Nicholson, did not have much objection (although he has expressed that he does not want his soldiers to be like small workers) work the same way), but he firmly opposed the work of an "officer", citing the terms of the Geneva Convention. . . That's right, it doesn't matter what the soldiers do, and the officers don't need to talk about it. Of course, this logic can be regarded as an expedient measure, but it is not very convincing. . .
Of course, the Japanese did not eat this, so the colonel and several officers under him were put in "confinement". Although the soldiers went to work, they were all kinds of foreign workers. In addition, the level of Japanese engineers was low, and it became impossible to complete the project on time. , So Saito, the commander of the prisoner of war camp, had to plead with Nicholson in various ways to supervise the work. In the end, he had to compromise on the condition that the officer would not work, and he even cried aggrieved. . .
After Mr. Nicholson came out, he felt that he wanted to let the Japanese see the capabilities of the British soldiers, so under the scientific planning and design of his professional engineering officers, he mobilized the enthusiasm of the soldiers and finally completed the bridge ahead of schedule. the ~
Well, the bridge-building story is over. It really smells like absurdist drama.
Gone.
Gone? !
Of course not, the story of building a bridge is like this. Although there is already a quirky old man with distinctive characteristics, there is obviously less dramatic conflict tension, so a turning point has to be added. . . Well, that's a Yankee, a soldier who escaped from a prisoner of war camp. After escaping and returning to the team, he was dismantled and caught the fake officer's little tail, and the group who exposed him wanted to use him. , go back to the prisoner of war camp in the jungle and blow up the built bridge, they are brave fighting heroes.
It's a pity that the heroes are not good at all kinds of apprenticeships. At the last minute, the bridge bombing plan was found out. The heroes died and escaped, but it was the people who saw it. . . POW Officer Nicholson. . . The irony is that in the end the bridge still blew up, and the person who bombed it still did. . . Nicholson. . .
what the fuck...
The story as described above is just, a mess. . . It could also be a movie history. . .
Hey, yes, it is.
And the premise of understanding it lies in this Mr. Nicholson, is he the so-called Stockholm syndrome patient? Is he a so-called traitor? I don't think it's either, so what is he, insane? Ok. . . It's really close, haha, in the film, he is a polite and rigorous British gentleman, and an old-fashioned and proud British military officer, but he should actually be "Don Quixote"!
Yes, Don Quixote, the crazy "knight". Nicholson is the British prisoner of war version of Don Quixote in World War II. He can be imprisoned until he is about to die because of an inexplicable principle, or he can show his own excellence and talent, but also for the sake of life and death on the battlefield. The "enemy" of the fight, build a bridge that can survive for a hundred years, and even when one's own people want to blow up this enemy's "evil" bridge, they are so confused that they are desperate to fight with their own people. . .
In the end, he was hit by a stray bullet, and he may have woken up in a trance. I don't know if it was like the time difference when Don Quixote discovered that he was not a so-called knight at all. He fell forward at the last moment of his life, Overwhelmed the detonator and blew up the bridge. . .
What a tragic ending. . . Although the middle has been trying very hard to disguise it as a comedy, but in the end, when the brisk whistle sounded again, there was a faint gloom in people's hearts. . . Yes, war is always going to kill people, no matter how funny "Life is Beautiful", isn't my father still dead?
From this point of view, the reason why this film is difficult to copy may lie in this: the background of World War II, chivalry, heroism, and the ups and downs of ordinary people’s moods, the three meet on a stage, so It's weird, but it's also so wonderful and interesting, so it has rich connotations and extensions for interpretation, so what more can I say, it must be a good five-star film~
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