When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
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The living have dreams
Clementina 2022-03-21 09:02:00
Adapted from a true story, it depicts the story of an American prisoner who escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp with his ninth death. Although it is about the Vietnam War, it is different from the perspectives of the famous Vietnam War films "Apocalypse Now", "Platoon" and "The Deer Hunter", which use a large number of war scenes or characters' abnormal psychological behaviors to reflect the impact of war on people. Massive persecution of body and spirit, the anti-war theme is evident. The focus of this film seems to be talking about the power of insisting on beliefs, but if you chew it carefully, the film still reflects the atrocities of war from different aspects. A very realistic film, if you don't have enough psychological endurance, it is best not to watch it. Although there are no scenes of cannonballs flying and blood splashing in the film, the inhuman abuse suffered by the protagonist, rain and water, and raw maggots. The scenes of gnawing snakes and leeches sucking blood are all vividly displayed in front of you, and you can't bear to see them. It also makes people have to admire the huge sacrifices made by the actors for the performance. In the film, the hope of escaping appeared again and again, but the hope was shattered again and again, and he succumbed to the cruel reality, but in the end, the emperor paid off, and the protagonist escaped. When I saw the protagonist at the end surrounded by cheering crowds, I also had to be moved.
When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
Dieter Dengler
When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
Dieter Dengler
Extended Reading
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Dolores 2022-04-22 07:01:31
The plot progress is too slow, the time of the film can be shortened. The length of a single shot makes some episodes less tense. The soundtrack is atmospheric.
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Rubye 2022-03-20 09:01:50
It can't be said that it is not good-looking, but it can be 3 or 3.5. It's just that I don't particularly like this type. The male protagonist played by Bell flew a fighter plane and fell into the Vietnamese jungle and was captured and then rescued himself, etc. It is basically a routine~ Compared with some details of the film traces, such as: when he was first captured, he was immersed in water and tortured. In reality, the water cannot reach the edge of the well. In the prisoner of war camp, eating worms is raw. I think Vietnamese people should know how to cook them. After returning to the ship, the star-like treatment feels unreal~
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[first lines]
Title Card: In 1965, few people believed that the still limited conflict in Viet Nam would turn into full scale war. / One of the first signs of what lay ahead was America's bombing of secret targets inside Laos.
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Admiral: No one can know.
Spook: No one except Charlie when we kick his ass.
[crew laughter]