The first experience of a big-name director's classic work, and at the same time, I can honestly say that I basically didn't see it.
It wasn't until I watched Blood Diamond that I felt some similarities and differences.
Both films take a lot of space to portray Scouts, which belong to the battlefield of teenagers. In the blood diamond, innocent children were brainwashed by the revolutionary army, instilled with new ideas, and then hated everything and learned to use war and killing to solve problems. In turn, Ivan’s childhood is about a child who took the initiative to tie childhood and war. His childhood experiences made him think about life, and he gave his understanding of life that I could fight and destroy the enemy.
Suddenly I feel that the two are not so clear-cut. Whether it is initiative or brainwashing, when war and children are linked together, there will always be an astonishing contrast. Perhaps one always represents cruelty and the other represents naivety.
In the era pushed by the tide of the times, I had to choose a life that did not belong to me, and I had to learn to be cruel
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