There is no conspiracy, love between sons and daughters, flying over walls, and raging flames in this film. Only honor, faith and competitive spirit pervade the whole film. After the loss of Chaplin in British movies, it is difficult for some movies that can shock the heart to appear again. Although the appearance of a special agent gave the British a fig leaf, it is more like the illegitimate child of the Americans, and it really makes the international The film industry, especially North American filmmakers, once again turned their attention to the British Isles. I think it was the "Challenges of Fire" that won four statuettes, and the capital of the United States began to be willing to really open up to British films at this time. safe.
If you want to select a film that is most in line with the Olympic spirit of being higher, faster, and stronger, then "Carriers of Fire" can be regarded as a well-deserved first choice. What makes it even more remarkable is that it has chosen very accurately a historical segment that puts religion and sports in one story.
Religion and sports are things worth believing in, and the movie puts them together, so we see a group of men running forward for their beliefs, competing with each other, encouraging each other, and supporting each other.
I remember when I first heard the title of this film, my first impression was that it was not an action shootout about racing cars? (As a result, there is really a Hong Kong film of the same name, telling the story of a motorcycle race, starring Andy Lau)
So I was very interested in why such a name was chosen, until one day I deliberately searched for the origin of the title, but it was still related to belief.
The Book of Enoch, an unorthodox Christian document, is written in which the protagonist Enoch, after completing the task given to him by God, went to heaven in a "fire-breathing chariot".
The two male protagonists of this film, Eric and Abraham, are also quite religious. The former is a missionary who was born in Scotland and finally died in China. He has been devout all his life, while the latter is a Jew who was born with a religious taste and a top student in Cambridge.
The two people are very different from birth to belief (Abraham is actually more secular, even a little atheist), and the film puts them on the same track, making them rivals, this form of contrast is in the "The Fastest Way" and "I, Tonya" also have very prominent performances. Eric can be regarded as the protagonist of the two protagonists. After all, the script is adapted from his deeds. He has an obvious dual role identity. These two identities are very clearly reflected in the film. At the end, it is the confrontation between these two identities-does it go against belief and compete on the Sabbath? The latter, Abraham, played a role of struggle, from failure to victory, from discrimination to respect, his film character is more combative, stubborn, and eager to win, because he needs to change some things through victory and give himself confidence , so when he lost to Eric, the negativity that was generated was very obvious, and it also reflected his desire to win.
The two people are destined to be the source of conflict in terms of expression and background.
The genius of the film is that although the film uses two people as almost the only characters in the film, they still maintain a kind of gentleman's spirit to this kind of dramatic conflict. This kind of competitive spirit, without the slightest opposition in human character or emotion. And this competitive spirit or Olympic spirit, from the beginning of the film, accompanied by a group of players running on the beach, the slow motion swept everyone's face, we can see the fatigue and pain of sports, and the accompanying Glory, pride, coupled with the soundtrack that we are still familiar with, the kind of music that is long-term, grand and almost ascending to the spiritual realm, makes us feel a sense of sacredness like faith, and it is set for the whole film at the beginning of the film. It is a film full of faith and a purer story about the good side of human beings.
Sports-themed movies often use the last game as the core climax, and the climax of this film is also placed in the final game, but the difference is that the final game is from rhythm to length, and even the mobilization of people's emotions, Neither is the real climax, but the real climax revolves around Eric's staunch boycott of the Sabbath game, and Sir Lindsey's final eligibility, these great humanity and firm belief, and the final victory, This is a series of events that took place during the Olympic Games and formed the climax of a whole.
And at the end of the film, echoing the title of the film, it is still running on the beach, and it is still the champions and gentlemen who are bursting with hormones. The audience watched their figures drifting away, and they could only look down at their beer stomachs, shaking their heads and sighing.
This can be regarded as the climax of the end.
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