old-fashioned american movies, old-fashioned heroism

Edwardo 2022-03-21 09:01:59

I went to the cinema to watch a movie on Saturday because I had nothing to do. I originally wanted to watch King Arthur, but then I watched this movie by accident.
Originally I had some expectations, hoping it was a disaster movie, and I would like to see the big scene, but then I found out that it was an old-fashioned personal heroism movie.
The plot at the end is simply a failure. Why must a person sacrifice his life to prove that he is a hero? Compared with the difficulty, I prefer the two male protagonists to get out of the danger in the end and share weal and woe to save more victims.
These exclamations of mine may be because I don't like individual heroism very much, and I don't like "American heroes" like jack bauer

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