after sacrifice

Lois 2022-03-27 08:01:01

This story could have been shot in a documentary style, but the storytelling style was chosen.
So even if it is true, it is not true. And it's too sensational, too contrived. It makes people suspect that he is using brainwashing methods to achieve utilitarian purposes.

I really have no doubts that the honored American soldiers who return home will be treated so solemnly.
But the director's technique is too clumsy, making people doubt whether he has studied at CCTV.

A movie with only good guys or only bad guys is a fake movie.
The problem with this film is that it completely ignores the real impact of war on human nature.
Deliberately depicting the relationship between soldiers and the country from only one perspective, soldiers serve the country, and the country honors the soldiers.
Throughout the film, no one talks about the views on this war, just endlessly narrating how this soldier is a good boy, a good student, and a good comrade-in-arms.

Such a person does not exist at all, a perfect saint does not exist.
A person, in the world, has his character, his hobbies, his ideology, and his world view.
And these attributes don't need to say that everyone is different, just say that it is impossible to completely match with the people around him.
So there must be friction, there must be conflict, there must be contradiction.
These things, in a relative sense, determine how people around him perceive him.
So he must be a good person in some people's eyes, a bad person in some people's eyes, and some people can't tell him clearly.

You can't cover up the so-called "negative" of all his human nature in the world after he sacrificed for the country.
It seems to tell citizens through the movie that as long as you die for the country, all the past will be forgotten.
This is a religious devotion to brainwashing, and it is extremely evil.

Another point, putting the war aside, is taken out of context.
After a soldier is killed, it is impossible that no one, especially those around him, will talk about the war.
And in the movie, what do we see, everyone seems to be comparing, oh, you were in the Korean War, I was in the Vietnam War, he was in the Desert Fox.
If, without reflection on war, we will not understand the real cause and purpose of war, we will be immersed in this kind of slaughter, and we will fight endlessly for war.
This kind of corpse will be sent back to the country forever, until people are numb.
The movie is meaningless.

Of course, I'm not saying that the funeral should be turned into a sparring meeting.
Whether Chance is a good guy or a bad guy doesn't matter anymore.
To respect the dead, one should not just set an example.
Instead, he should restore all the things he had before his death, and let the audience restore the sacrificed hero to a living human being from his real mouths, not a victim who has to serve utilitarianism after death.

Second, collect some rhetoric about the war in a broad sense.
Civilians have the views of war civilians, politicians have the views of politicians, soldiers have the views of soldiers, officers have the views of officers, and widows have the views of widows.
Only in this way can we face a war soberly and sacrifice our children as little as possible in the war.

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Taking Chance quotes

  • 1st Lt. Dan Robertson (Chance Phelp's platoon commander): [voiceover, from his 09 April 2004 letter to the Phelps family] It's ironic, but I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps.

  • LtCol Mike Strobl: [voiceover] Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.