Adhering to the sense of reverence for the soldiers, I played it in the theater for the second time.
Several domestic films released in the same period have good reviews. Aside from The Pianist at Sea, this movie touches me the most.
I've always wanted to write a movie review, but I've been through so much in the past three months. Now I can finally sit down and write.
The film is about the turning point of the Pacific War between the United States and Japan, and the American theme is very strong. The battle scenes are naturally extremely intense. Aircraft bombing warships and aircraft carriers, naval guns shooting down aircraft, and aircraft fighting... It really makes adrenaline surge.
However, in my opinion, this is an anti-war film.
It begins with a private conversation between a Japanese admiral and an American officer. The admiral expressed the hope that the United States would maintain the supply of oil to Japan, otherwise it would lead to extreme actions by the main warring factions in Japan. The American officer replied, "No one wants war."
After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the admiral sighed solemnly, "We awakened a sleeping giant and made him make a terrible determination."
Best's former classmate and friend, a navy captain, desperately shot down an enemy plane with the ship's machine gun when the Japanese fighter group dropped multiple shells and the entire ship was turned into a sea of fire, but still could not stop the ship. The fate of the sinking of the ship.
Hearing the news of the sinking of his friend's warship, in order to find his whereabouts, Best went to many hospitals, found the morgue from the ward, and finally found his friend who was burned to charcoal by virtue of wearing the same characteristics of the Naval Academy ring. 's remains.
After attending the funeral, Best reminisced about the life of his friend in front of his colleagues, and detailed the past of sneaking into Canada to buy wine and drink by boat. "Roy is not only my best man, he's my daughter's godfather," he said, and I think one day we'll be drinking on the porch and brag about our big fights.
With the encouragement of Best, the young pilot who overcame his timidity and boarded the fighter plane, but when he first set off, the aircraft carrier was too slow and the plane lacked enough power to take off, and immediately fell into the sea. Best watched the bow of the ship, which was too late to turn the rudder, and ran over the fighter body floating on the sea surface and swept it into the bottom of the ship.
In the decisive battle, the pilots who had just returned from the first round of bombing missions and returned home from the gate of hell, but had not yet recovered from the silence of the tragic situation on the battlefield, received an order from their superiors to start the second round of bombing immediately. He walked out of the rest cabin at a weary pace.
Best's life and death on the battlefield was unknown, and his wife rushed to his comrade-in-arms' house to wait for Best's news, avoiding everyone and hiding in the bathroom to cry.
The commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, decided to take full responsibility for the defeat, sank with the soon-to-be-sinked aircraft carrier, and refused the young officer's request to live and die with him. All Japanese officers on board salute with tears.
After the battle, looking at the blackboard in the pilot's combat mobilization room, almost half of the list of comrades-in-arms was crossed out due to death or disappearance.
The Japanese fleet was defeated. But for Americans, this was not a bloody and tearful victory.
Those who have been on the battlefield in person will not be ecstatic about the victory of the war. Only the stillness that has not recovered from the rest of the life after the catastrophe has finally lived up to the relief that bears the hope on their shoulders and the grief of missing their fallen comrades.
No matter how heroic a warrior is, it is possible to be crushed by the wheels of war. Soldiers on the battlefield are all flesh and blood. They will be afraid, they will want to withdraw, and they will take a serious look at the photos of their family and lovers before each expedition. Their family and loved ones, every time they send them away from home, worry about whether this will be the last goodbye.
Some wars are to prevent more wars. And some wars are because of greed.
May human beings live in peace with their desires.
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