real war

Wilbert 2022-03-21 09:03:00

Before watching it, I thought it was a face-to-face interview + various schematic diagrams + live actors, but I didn't expect the whole film to be oral editing + image restoration. Different people tell the history they know, in different tones and with different emotions. It feels so real, as if you were a kid sitting next to your grandpa listening to him tell about his glorious deeds. Perhaps this film did not deliberately go to "ordinary" documentaries. Although I already knew about World War I before watching it, I still couldn't tell which battle was described in the film, but this was not the case. influence. Originally, if we want to say objective and accurate words, we should also tell it according to time, and we also need to draw French, German, American, Austrian, and Hungarian to talk about it... It is not the kind of documentary we usually see, it only uses Many people's dictation records the experience of a British soldier from enlistment to demobilization. It has no narration, no situation map, but it is still so powerful, it is easier to move me than the kind of cold documentary that analyzes the situation, casualties, and equipment. heart of.

*When I watched it, there was another person besides my best friend and my girlfriend who was willfully pulled by me. After watching it, I chatted for a while, and that person's thought was "I didn't expect other people to come to see it". I was also filmed by Amway in a documentary "The Price of an Empire", which feels quite wonderful. **Here I also recommend another channel that is not a documentary, but an oily softshell turtle. year.

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  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.