The story of the fortress is not so strong, and the authenticity of the military aspect, I have no ability to evaluate. But I still give my compliments. Because the suffocating atmosphere and the flesh-and-blood characters touched my heart.
The story is actually quite simple. The peaceful fortress was suddenly attacked, besieged and resisted for more than a month, but was finally broken. Heroes walk on strangers, witnesses tell stories. For detailed research, you can see the fortress map and the novels of the witnesses.
In the end, the film sublimates, condensing the accumulated pathos in one place. It's a common theme in war movies, but it's good work that doesn't feel boring.
Along with the images of the martyrs bathing in the peaceful sunshine flashing in his mind, the surviving young man who has become an old man said these words in front of the monument in the fortress.
"They're still alive, somewhere"
The camera finally showed him, who was still a teenager back then, with those clear, brave eyes, and the child whose appearance was so similar to his childhood.
They're still alive, right here—
In the hearts of young people,
in the memory of later generations.
Their bodies disappeared forever in the smoke of gunpowder, silent in the long river of history. They died—for them, forever. No tomorrow, no glory. In the intensive artillery fire, among the ruins of the fortress, what kind of loneliness and despair they faced? They no longer have the opportunity to hug the people they love and know where the country they love is going. cruel death.
We can only look back at this history, watching and prying from a distance, but in the end we are powerless to save the lives that have passed. The only thing that can offer some relief is the fiery spirit behind this tragedy. Fighting for the motherland and unfinished business, such a will, in the cruelty of war, seems so romantic, so brilliant, and always brings tears to the eyes. The best we can do is to give this glorious tragedy, genuine awe, and deep reflection. The most beautiful and most tragic will that has been burning in the past hundred years should be used as an inexhaustible driving force for our own progress to realize the ideal that the country has not been able to achieve in the end.
Always remember the fighters in the anti-fascist war.
It's the only thing I can do.
Don't forget them.
Don't let them die.
#broken thoughts:
1 The repeated care and comparison between peacetime and after war touched me a lot. The corridor, which was originally a place where people jumped lightly, became a position shrouded in death. He danced again, trying to bring some inspiration. In the end, when the fortress was finally broken, the film flashed through the initial scene of the crowd enjoying peace and happiness. Family members were beside them, men and women were dancing, and political commissars usually walked over, leaving a smile. Punishment.
2 "I'm a political commissar. Jew, Communist."
3 On the broken wall of the Reichstag in Berlin, a veteran wrote, "I am from Brest"
4 Listen to the ending song "Don't Let Me Die". This sentence is so sad. There was an indescribable uncomfortable feeling. They died, so lonely that no one even knew it for more than ten years. Captured by sadness, deeply immersed in empathy for the characters, powerless, and ultimately, can only be liberated in a deeply remembered way. This is the original intention of the second half of the text above.
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