After reviewing other people's short comments, I feel that there are still few people who understand this film. Since it is the same type of film, it is inevitable that some people compare it with FMJ, but personally think that this film is no less than FMJ. The difference is that FMJ is still a bit exaggerated and artistic, while the lid is more real and natural.
The "pretend" in the film expresses the trivial matters of several years in the military with a relatively plain sentiment, the joys and sorrows, and focuses on an ordinary soldier. The protagonist is a scout sniper of a special operations platoon, who has trained the most outstanding vanguard through difficult, but even so, he is just a soldier.
Their generation grew up in the company of Hollywood movies. Their elders told glorious war stories. In the plot, the soldiers watched the movie together and cheered for the marines who took a helicopter from the sky to destroy the enemy. Going to the battlefield is just aimlessly carrying heavy equipment and marching on foot in the hot desert, searching for non-existent enemies. Let the wind and the sun, exhausted, repeat the most boring work every day, digging pits, filling pits, training, and wiping the gun over and over again when I'm free.
His true career as a pioneer is different from what many people imagined. He did not encounter stimulating fierce gun battles, did not have the opportunity to perform heroism like chicken blood, and only kept bowing his head. After a long journey, the protagonist and partner finally heard the gunshots and made up their minds to rush to the battlefield, only to find that the war was over long ago. It was the other teammates who were partying, and no one even noticed that they were left behind, and no one notified them. The war is over long ago, absurd and real.
This is the case on the battlefield, why not so in life.
There are quite a lot of points in the film that the director deliberately draws attention, such as soldiers arriving in the theater and getting off the plane, lined up to the sign written OIL, and so on.
The director of the film left a lot of foreshadowing, from the book the protagonist read at the beginning to the soldiers' nonsense.
The soldiers got along with each other day and night for several years, but there were still estrangements, incomprehensions and conflicts between the brothers.
Unlike the common Hollywood muscle movies, this film is like a group drama, but everything that happens is unexpected and a more vivid depiction of the minutiae of human nature itself in the war. Compared with "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Shell", the pot heads are more real.
The film depicts the true story of the far-reaching Gulf War. The Gulf War occurred because during the Iran-Iraq War between Iraq and Iran, Iraq borrowed huge sums of money from Kuwait, a small country in the Middle East, to purchase Western and Chinese weapons. As a result, the war ended in a draw and the war debts could only be repaid by itself. This war ended in the past. In the history of "profit wars", the formerly rich Iraq and Iran on both sides of the war did not get the slightest benefit from each other except that they were deeply mired in debt. As a result, Iraq faced an economic crisis and decided to relinquish Kuwait.
Kuwait knew that Saddam wanted to go wrong, but they did not dare to reject Saddam, so they planned to reject Saddam first, and then settle the debt problem with Saddam's government privately, so as to give the King of Kuwait a step down. But Saddam was angry at this time. Seeing that the small country Kuwait directly rejected him, Saddam thought that he did not win the Iran-Iraq War and made the small country of Sesame look down upon him. So angrily, he announced that the Iraqi army would immediately capture Kuwait. Soon Saddam Hussein said. Of several elite armored divisions captured the entire territory of Kuwait in one fell swoop
After hearing the news, the United Nations quickly convened an emergency meeting to inform the Iraqi army to leave Kuwait immediately. Iraq’s recklessness and bullying of small countries has caused unanimous dissatisfaction across the world. All members of the UN’s standing council passed sanctions against Iraq. Soon Saddam rejected the UN's communications again and again, and Saddam made it public. It was announced that Kuwait would be a province of Iraq.
Therefore, the United Nations resolution authorized all countries to form a multinational armed force to carry out armed intervention, and quickly liberate Kuwait with the goal of quickly defeating the main force of the Iraqi army.
Outside of the movie, the U.S. military carried out air strikes quickly and decisively during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The Air Force directly eliminated 50% of the frontline troops and 25% of the rear troops of the Iraqi army after the start of the war. The Iraqi army could only continue to retreat. At the same time, the multinational force did not immediately put the army into battle, but continued air strikes until the enemy was almost consumed. The multinational force ordered the ground troops and infantry led by tanks and helicopters to quickly detour back to the flank of the Iraqi army. The Iraqi troops also did so. Avoiding being surrounded and moving forward quickly, trying to move to favorable terrain, and fight to the death with the Allied forces, there is also the Marines in the movie that have not raised their guns, and the front line has moved 10 kilometers away.
On the afternoon of February 24, the multinational force began a ground attack on Iraq. The war only reached the 26th when Iraq announced its acceptance of a truce, and the two sides ceased fire. The two sides signed the agreement on the 28th. Thus ended the largest combat operation in modern warfare.
Only more than 100 people were killed in the US army. The total loss of the Allied multinational force was less than 5,000.
The Iraqi army suffered more than 100,000 casualties, another 86,000 were captured, and more than 300 aircraft and more than 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. This was the case when Iraq had the second largest air defense system in the world at the time. At that time, the air defense firepower of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, had surpassed that of Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, but it was still unable to prevent continuous air strikes by the Allied forces.
For this war, the world political structure was completely broken. Declaring the independent political model of the Third World is considered out of place. On the contrary, the era of globalization dominated by Europe and the United States has begun, and countries have begun to be closely connected. At the same time, the United States began to figure out how to obtain a piece of its own cake in such a war, which also laid the groundwork for the Iraq War that later completely eliminated the Saddam regime.
But for such a magnificent and large-scale war, the movies and memoirs on the market are the fewest. Because of this, as shown in the lid of the pot, their battle has not yet begun, the war is over. The vast majority of people have no real sense of war. There is no adrenaline rush, only digging sand and wiping guns. For them, the expression on their faces can only be blank.
Some people say that the protagonist in this film is a little paralyzed, but I think this is a true interpretation of the war perspective of such a grassroots soldier. Because although he participated in the largest combat operation in history, he was more like an observer from beginning to end, and he had no sense of participation in this war. For them, even the war itself did not give him the opportunity to tell about his combat experience. , And had to be lost.
This also reminds me of a veteran I know. He has participated in the counterattack against Vietnam. He is very proud of his military career. However, whenever he talks about the battles that year, he will also be at a loss, because although his company is Stationed on the front line for a long time but did not encounter battle. For him, he is very proud of playing for his country on the battlefield, but whenever he remembers this, he will also show that kind of loss. He didn't know whether it was because he failed to sacrifice on the battlefield or failed to realize his value. But as a witness, I didn't even see the enemy during the whole war. After that, he rarely mentioned the military history again.
For many potheads who advertised that they were born for war, no one told them that the war was over, and that their war never really ended.
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