Malick's previous works have been exploring and questioning various "meanings": "The Tree of Life" seeks the meaning of life and history, "To Wonderland" attempts to explore the eternity of love, and "Knight of the Holy Grail" questions the lives of stars the truth. If these works revolve around the illusory meaning and make people unable to immerse themselves, then this new work is definitely a return to the level of history and reality, which immediately shortens the distance with the audience and has a strong emotional rendering power. This work based on real events is like a continuation of the anti-war theme of the director's "The Thin Red Line", which won the Berlin Golden Bear Award. In the equally poetic "The Thin Red Line", a team of American infantry soldiers joins The battlefield in the South Pacific uses the subjective stream of consciousness and inner monologue of soldiers to insinuate the truest humanity in war. In this new film, it also describes a different "soldier" who refuses to follow the trend of the Nazi regime and fights, but listens and follows firm beliefs, justice and conscience make him brave to face death without any hesitation. wince.
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