or no war

Leo 2022-03-21 09:01:23

I just watched the premiere last night, and I quickly came to answer while my memory was fresh (there are spoilers in it). We watched it after 6 o'clock in the evening, and it was basically full, and many old gentlemen and old ladies were watching. American patriotic education films are really vivid and beautiful, and they also have a lot of human reflections.

Uncle Tom's acting skills are very good. The corners of his eyebrows and eyes are full of drama. He plays a lawyer who looks smart and smooth on the surface but has a strong sense of principle on the inside. There are a lot of classic lines in it. But I was most impressed by the Soviet spy, who concealed a deep helplessness towards fate and a cold sense of humor under his plain expression. In the film, East Germany and the United States during the Cold War are very, very restored. It's hard to imagine that we were born when the Berlin Wall was still around, dividing a country's capital into completely different worlds (go away, ahem).

I think the best thing about American patriotism films than China is that the conflict of human nature is very reasonable. That Soviet spy, he doesn't have many lines, but there is something respectable about him, because his childhood fate leads to the choice of political ideas in the future. And many of the things the US government did during the Cold War were not at all high-level, and these were shown very realistically by the movie. In the last scene of the movie, people are replaced on the bridge. The choice of the country and the choice of the individual are intertwined. You can feel the word "respect", not only for people and people, but also for countries and individuals. After the hostages were exchanged, Uncle Tom stood on the empty bridge. What I felt was the insignificance and powerlessness of personal resistance in this political confrontation during the war.

Still no war.

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Bridge of Spies quotes

  • Rudolf Abel: Standing there like that you reminded me of the man that used to come to our house when I was young. My father used to say: "watch this man'. So I did. Every time he came. And never once did he do anything remarkable.

    James Donovan: And I remind you of him?

    Rudolf Abel: This one time, I was at the age of your son, our house was overrun by partisan border guards. Dozens of them. My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father's friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again. So they hit him harder. Still he got back to his feet. I think because of this they stopped the beating. They let him live. "Stoit i muzhik," I remember them saying... "stoit i muzhik." Which sort of means like uh, 'standing man'. Standing man...

  • James Donovan: [forced to leave dining room before eating his meal] Enjoy your big American breakfast.