It's an epic story of courage and sacrifice, danger and solidarity, heroism and helplessness (The New York Times contributed greatly to this sentence). In the Second World War, a group of young people from the French colony of Algeria joined the French army, hoping to liberate the "motherland" - France, and win the honor and dignity that belongs to them. However, the facts tell them that, except for themselves, almost no French people agree with them. They also sacrificed their lives, but what they gained was only pale spiritual inspiration and empty promises. The French spirit of freedom, equality and fraternity has nothing to do with them. The beautiful French girls do not belong to them, the right to read and read, family leave does not belong to them, and even fresh tomatoes do not belong to them. If there is one thing that can treat them equally, I am afraid it is only the bullets of the Germans.
They finally found that this "motherland" was out of tune with them, with different beliefs, different skin colors, and different status, and they could not gain glory and a sense of belonging from the "motherland". They finally understand that this is not their homeland, and they will never be able to erase their colonial stigma. In the words of our Chinese, they are slaves of subjugation. Maybe it's because they were colonized so long ago that they forgot about it.
It is extremely painful to realize that a country that has shed blood and sacrificed for it does not belong to oneself, and a sense of disappointment and powerlessness arises spontaneously. Maybe Sun Jizhen can understand their pain at this time. (Sun Jizhen is a North Korean. As a Japanese colony in 1936, he represented Japan in the Berlin Olympics and won the marathon championship. On the podium, he lowered his head and covered the Japanese flag on his chest with flowers...)
Finally, these soldiers decided to fight for themselves. They wanted the world to remember their glorious days. They wanted to let the world know that a group of young Algerians from North Africa became the first "French" to set foot on the historic city of Alsace. people". However, the final result is that the glory belongs to France, not to them. Those who die may be the lucky ones, while those who survive will feel nothing but emptiness, confusion, and endless pain. History has just played a joke on mankind. But as long as there are countries, as long as there are humans, jokes like this will go on and on.
In the film, whenever these soldiers from Algeria die, the distant and desolate North African folk song will sound, which seems to be welcoming the souls of these dead people back to their hometowns. Compared with this song, the majestic Marseillaise appears dull in the film.
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