The opening quoted Plato: Only death can we see the end of war. After textual research, Mr. Plato never said the phrase "Only the dead have seen the end of war". Although the provenance remains to be tested, it has a profound meaning. The war of the dead is over, and the war of the living will not stop. War runs through the entire history of mankind. Since Pangu opened the world, and now that democracy and freedom have become the trend of the world, it is still inevitable that whole or partial wars are inevitable. As the wise said, peace is no more than a gap between wars.
The film vividly expresses the cruelty of the war, which can be called a classic of street fighting.
In 1993, in the politically turbulent Somalia, the warlord leader Aidid (محمد فرح حسن عيديد) massacred the people and seized humanitarian relief supplies, and openly challenged the United Nations headed by the United States. Due to an informant's intelligence error, the US military alone planned a military operation to kidnap two important government officials in Aidid, and fell into heavy siege by the local militia. During the fire clash, two US Black Hawk fighters were attacked by rockets and fell into the armed control area of Aidid, the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu.
The U.S. Special Forces Delta Force and Army Rangers totaled 123 people (citing IMDB data, Wiki data is 160), broke into the fallen Black Hawk fighter that was surrounded by more than 5,000 fully armed militiamen from Aidid, and rescued the injured pilots trapped in the fighter. member. A fighter plane, soaring in the sky, is a dragon of nine days, and falling into the ground is like a coffin. African brothers armed with AK47s flooded into the crash site. The battle fell into a stalemate see-saw state, and the scene was bloody and tragic.
Basically, the cruel side of the war is reflected in the film’s perspective—the American soldier. The comrades-in-arms are deeply affectionate and do not give up any of their comrades; they sacrificed themselves to rescue their comrades and were seriously injured; without morphine, they inserted their bare hands into the flesh and blood of the wounded and pressed the arteries to stop the bleeding; the lower part of the body exploded and was dying; the mob shot, and the American soldiers died out of ammunition. , Don’t forget to shelter your family’s photos in the riddled rubble.
However, the ending subtitles surprisingly reminded that the US military sacrificed 19 people (including 1 in Malaysia) in this operation, and the other side, the unjust Somali militia, suffered 1,200 casualties! Black Hawk fighter jets fired in the air, and African brothers holding rifles scurrying on the ground like locusts, causing massive casualties. U.S. Hummers, tanks, fighter planes, machine guns, night vision bazookas, and various weapons take turns to play. Thug, rifle, flesh and blood. They have no lines, no features. Warlord thugs slaughtered another group of people who were also on this land on their own land. It is difficult to define the other group of people who were slaughtered as the righteous party, because it is very likely that in the near future, they will also be picked up. The man with a butcher knife.
In the film, and even in reality, the conclusion after the audience's uncomplicated psychological struggle is quite simple: these thugs are more than guilty. In the face of the cruel bloody forest war, the Virgin, who is separated from the newspaper and the screen, has no more hypocritical and illusory idealism. However, the audience of this film may wish to think a little bit more, and I believe it is also implied by the creator at the end of the film (dancing African boy, dialogue of the surviving soldier): Can war be avoided? Is American democracy really suitable for Somalia (and the whole world)? These 1,200 Somali militiamen who were killed and wounded in the war, are their sacrifices worth it, and are they deserved? What are the beliefs of these Aidid militiamen? Are they defended by death, or just out of fear of the leader?
The raid failed. The U.S. forces stabbed a basket in the Aidid-controlled area, and finally withdrew from the combat area under the cover of the United Nations forces (Pakistan and Malaysian peacekeepers). Major general in charge took the blame and resigned. Clinton decided to withdraw troops from Somalia. Somalia has been politically turbulent so far, and Somali pirates are rampant. This is something to follow.
In the movie, the soldiers ask themselves, why should they participate in other people's wars? The Zhongyong civilization proposed non-interference in each other's internal affairs, and each family has swept their doors; the police of the world and Uncle Sam continue to run into obstacles in promoting democracy all over the world. Living among tribal civilizations on the African continent for generations, the endless cruel and extinct ethnic struggles stepped into the brig full of black slaves, and then joined the wave of global democracy at the end of the last century. Dictatorship is unpopular, so suppression, resistance, massacre, peacekeeping, anti-war, withdrawal, chaos.
Who should be responsible for these? This is the war of others. Should the killing continue? Unsolvable problem. Somalia is basically in a state of anarchy, with no oil, no resources, this corner forgotten by the world.
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