Very interesting, I also want to use the title of "American Spirit" VS Bureaucracy when reviewing "King of Speed". The American people need war, love war, and certainly don't like losing wars. Until now on November 15, 2020, Trump is the only US president since World War II who has not launched a "war" (which is still a little different from military operations) against a foreign country. If the US government announces that Biden is elected as the next term President, this may be one of the reasons why Trump lost the election. The title of the film comes from a German officer's description of the British army during World War II, "sheep leading a group of lions". British soldiers are brave and generals are very incompetent. This is a passage quoted by a university professor in the film when he persuaded health care students not to join the army, which reflects the disappointment of the American people with bureaucrats. The story goes something like this, two college students who chose to join the army because they didn’t want to take on a $200,000 student loan debt when they graduated. During a military operation in Afghanistan, they died because of intelligence mistakes and mindless planning. At the same time as they died, a congressman, the first military planner who graduated from West Point and had been engaged in intelligence analysis for six years but never participated in an actual combat, was persuading reporters to report this military operation from the front. The reporters are very sophisticated speculation. And felt the failure of this military operation (at the end of the interview, the congressman received a report on the failure of the operation in front of reporters). At the same time as their sacrifice, two college professors who protect students are convincing a talented student who has been disappointed and passive because of seeing the dark side of politics to regain his enthusiasm for learning and political ideals. The film reflects on many issues; for example, in the American education system, most of the students with medical insurance are born in slums. Although they may get high-paying jobs after graduating from college, the $200,000 student loan they will have to bear upon graduation is a huge problem. Great pressure, it is said that Obama just paid off his student loans before he was elected president; for example, the helplessness of American journalists, TV stations or newspapers were acquired by companies, and news reports must be in the interests of the companies, so journalists have become "failures" , you can refer to "The Insider" (Al Pacino, Russell Crowe); such as the overheating of entertainment news; such as the hypocrisy of politicians, the reporter said that if the military operation is successful, the lawmakers can name the operation after themselves, so that the I can increase my chances of running for president, but the congressman said, I will not run for president. However, what this film really wants to reflect is that the "American spirit" is being suppressed and consumed by the bureaucracy in the United States. Soldiers enter the war with the ideal of defending their homeland and the country, but eventually die when politicians try to increase their campaign leverage or have vested interests. In a mindless military operation planned for the benefit.
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