Resistance Army: Faith in life, arbitration in death

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Text / Su Pha

On March 16, 1935, Hitler announced that the German army would reorganize its armaments and implement a conscription system; the Berlin-Tokyo axis was formed in 1936; on August 31, 1939, the German soldiers who were disguised at night destroyed the Polish border grid. Levitz’s small town radio station fired a gun to greet him; the next day, with the conspiracy of the thief shouting and catching the thief, the war broke out. Germany invaded Austria, the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, France and so on. The background of the story is in 1941, when Belarus was captured by Nazi Germany. The SS death squad and local police began to round up Jews unscrupulously. 50,000 people died in a few weeks. A pseudo-documentary clip at the beginning of the film (the foreground part) What is shown in is exactly the moment when millions of lives are expelled and toward death.

[Creating the Jedi Senses]

"Rebel" chose the gunpowder that took place between Jews and Nazis. Even though there are many figures of Russian soldiers, the legendary image of Jewish soldiers is not the same among the many film and television works that show this plunder and massacre. It is more common, perhaps because the author is lonely and unheard of, but in this highly accomplished film, there are no splendid selfless women spies, no well-dressed foreign saviors, and nothing is jaw-dropping. Confession and recovery, but among the many freaks who use their swords to call for humanity, they show their dull color, bright, bold and direct side, and portray the endless exile population in the cold and gloomy forest. Under the forging of solid original works, elegant mirroring, tough performances and magnificent music, this legendary film based on real stories has ample image vitality.
In recent years, he has made music for "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight", "I am a Legend", "Michael Clayton", "Blood Diamond", "King Kong" and other giant cross-swords on the screen. James Newton Howard, the classic soundtrack of "Six Senses" and "Terror Zone", fully mobilized the entire film. This second collaboration with director Edward Zwick successfully changed the texture of the music from the wild and bloody South Africa to the inland north wind of Eastern Europe. The bitterness and soul-stirring under the noise put the audience in the lonely and dense atmosphere of the great forest of Belarus, with the first protagonist Daniel Craig playing Tuvia to experience the mission and plight of the leader.
As the eldest son of the only three remaining brothers in the Bielski family, the new 007 actor vividly encapsulates the mixed settings of encountering Nazi persecution, betrayal by friends, brothers rebelling against eyes, typhoid torture, internal unrest, guerrilla warfare, etc., with an unchanging grim expression. Indifferent and violent, but very commensurate with the role play, at least a safe distance from Brosnan. Although Zus Bielski was set to highlight Tuvia in the film, it plays a key role in terms of playing time and several plot reversals. The role of the characters in Liev Schreiber's "Wolverine" is also very similar to this film. Although one is vicious and the other is sturdy, but at the end of the story, they will get the same result by different routes. The brotherhood in this film does give Liev more room to play. Even if the head and face are still a bit weird, the momentum like the German cannon Yankel is always exciting.

[But I lost to hatred]

There are two voices in the film. One is the violent revenge advocated by Zus, so he took refuge in the Red Army guerrillas; the other is for the minimum resistance based on peace and survival. Maintain freedom and never pay the price without interruption. Injuries and illnesses, supplies, the struggle for rights caused by economic problems, and the reality announced by the sudden sound of gunfire all support the position of this film-for people, the right to survive and the future of the nation are all. Take action, at the cost of violence and sacrifice, but also keep the power of simplicity alive.
The two voices are clarified by a duel, using two parallel lines to tell, sometimes intertwined (blasting, gunfire and singing and dancing, newlyweds), sometimes blending (medical supplies), although the duel at the beginning of the brothers' separation, Tuvia asked the Red Army for penicillin, and the rescue and return of Zus at the end of the credits both represented the side of violence and hatred, either in a disadvantaged, proactive manner, or in a way of weighing the pros and cons to highlight Tuvia’s sacred beliefs, but what should not be ignored is that During the duel, Tuvia used weapons but Zus did not; the blood-stained supplies were obtained through violence, accompanied by unplanned casualties, and Tuvia was only merciful in the process; and the ending of the film is more like family love Triumph is not the disappearance of a certain voice-on the contrary, even in Tuvia's voice, the violence of his companions is acquiesced, if it is only because of the peak of grief and anger, it has to be vented with fists, wooden sticks, and gun butts. The "rightness" in the life of a Nazi captive, even if that person has a wife and daughter, even if the women and children on the side are frightened by the sudden "trial".
"Rebel" did not give any conclusions on these. It seems that the focus is only on a legend, a tall back figure, a group of strong fighters, and the meaning of this kind of resistance, but a closer inspection will reveal that more internal The predicament seems sparse and indistinguishable, and the contradiction between the cruelty and the characters implied by it is already very clear.

[Rebuilding the Spiritual Homeland]

Unlike Hanks in "Legend of a Deserted Island", he reclaimed an uninhabited island for his livelihood, and also different from the temporary optimism of Prio and his team in "The Beach", Tuvia bears the responsibility of bearing the humiliation A kind of self-consciousness and dignity of a revolutionary, the camp in this mountain forest is not his own wealth and life, but is closely related to the life and death of nearly a hundred people. At this time, all arbitrations have the color of faith, and the camp has the color of spiritual home. People in distress have "partners in the forest." When the weather is good, some people even play music. They live like an ethnic group. Everyone works. Like all societies, they start to hold their own opinions.
For a long time, the Jews were in exile. The torrent of history and the tribulations of life and death enabled them to acquire extraordinary wisdom and the characteristics of Jews, which enabled them to survive from desperation, thrive, and obtain wealth. The Jews in "Rebel" are jailed, struggling to survive in the extreme conditions in the mountains, resisting the German army, and constantly fleeing and migrating, which reflects the spiritual beliefs and historical vicissitudes of the Jewish nation. The ten-mile swamp that the film will cross towards the end is full of symbolic meaning, just like the epitome of life in exile, or the reproduction is more appropriate, and it has become the most iconic shot of the film.
"They lived in that forest for more than two years. In the new camp, they built schools, hospitals, and even kindergartens. Although they were often surrounded and suppressed, their numbers kept increasing. At the end of the war, 1,200 people lived. Later, Asael Bielski, the youngest of the three brothers, joined the Soviet army and was killed in an operation six months later. He had never seen his child with Chaya; his second brother Zus moved to New York and started to do car transportation. Business; Soon, Tuvia followed Zus to New York, and they worked together for 30 years. Tuvia and Lilka married and spent the rest of their lives. The Bielskis family never sought recognition for everything they did. Those were saved by them. There are already more than 10,000 descendants of people.”
Just as the story after the curtain fell as explained at the end of the film, there are countless spring and autumn heat, Jews from all over the world have taken root, multiplied, and embraced in different cities and different cultures. Erzhi's belief has rebuilt an indestructible spiritual home.

2009.06.05 Su Fa, Beijing



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  • Lazar: Halt, who goes there?

    Zus Bielski: We go here, Lazar. You only say 'halt, who goes there' when you don't know who goes there. We go there.

    Lazar: Oh. Sorry Zus.

  • Lazar: [turning around to face the camp] Halt who goes there!

    Tuvia Bielski: Lazar, I'm coming from the camp, you only say that to people going towards the camp! The danger is out there, not in here!