Fucking the President

"How many roads does a man have to walk before he can be called a man? How many oceans does a white dove have to fly before he can sleep on the beach? How many times does the cannon have to fly before he can be permanently sealed? The answer, I My friend, floating in the wind. The answer is floating in the wind..." Remember this Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the wind", when I first met it, I liked its smooth melody and catchy lyrics. Also because I was young and didn't know the taste of sadness, I often performed k-songs with a happy mood. Now I think about it really frivolous. When I was watching the film, along with Brandon's painful war memories, this song popped out of nowhere and sang it over and over again in my head, like a ghost burrowing out of the ground, floating To and fro, hesitant and melancholy. I don't know what merits and demerits the Iraq War had compared to the Vietnam War, but does the "stop loss" policy violate the human rights spirit that Americans hold as a standard? What does the "loss" in stop loss mean? national finance? public interest? Unlike patients who amputate limbs to preserve their bodies, stockbrokers sell to preserve capital. Here, the "stop loss" is facing the lives of each and everyone! Individuals can never defeat governments, and even the United States cannot guarantee the overflow of government it feared when it was founded. In fact, the policy of "stop loss" not only did not stop the "loss", but instead caused excessive regime proliferation in the form of pseudo-morality, and it seemed that the violation of personal power would be easy. Is the state of people's ideology really more important than anything else? Even if the state is fundamentally controlled by a few people? Individuals to give their lives for the actual nothingness? I believe the answer will also be in the wind.

The film is reminiscent of another anti-war work: Tigerland. The same anti-war theme, the same anti-war people, the only difference is the battlefield. It can be said that most of the plot of the film is very exciting and touching. Of course, the rendering of the war scene is not as good as the "Counter-Terrorist Kingdom" that uses this as a selling point, but this is not the main thing. As a veteran who was deeply injured by the war, but was called back to the battlefield in the name of "stop loss", Brandon's behavior and thinking are the focus of this film. In terms of portraying and highlighting the characters, the film is very successful. Even when the male protagonist yelled "Fucking the President!" furiously, I had to express my admiration, like a kind of soundness that I wanted to say for a long time but had nowhere to say it through others. I think at this point, the film can completely enter the "Hall of Fame" of anti-war movies. However, the result is that the ending of the movie is a big disappointment to me!

While the film was still in progress, I rehearsed several versions of the ending in my mind. For example, Brandon was a strong anti-war but was unwilling to choose to escape and was eventually imprisoned by the authorities; or he chose to go into exile with Michelle like the veteran he met on the way; or the most tragic situation was like Tommy. The end... In short, any of them are more believable than this film's "smile and focus on the battlefield". If I see this and say that this film is an "anti-war pioneer", it will completely confuse me. Like a beautiful baroque building used as a prison, this film is equipped with a short and bald "dog's tail". For example, it is absurd that Jia Baoyu chose the "Four Books and Five Classics" in his continued writing of "Dream of Red Mansions" and even won Juren. It can be said that with the ending of "smile and focus on the battlefield", this film is an incomplete anti-war, and "no protection at night" goes against the original intention.

In the performance, Channing Tatum was still posing on the T stage, and even the teardrop in the film looked like a fashion decoration. Ryan Phillippe shines brightly, and every move has the potential of a movie star. Compared with his previous films, which "looked too much to steal the spotlight", this time it was his acting skills that prevailed. It seems that divorce is not a bad thing. Looking forward to the performance of his next movie "Franklyn". [By Vincentspring]

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