This movie is great

The story based on the historical adaptation of the film took place on November 14, 1965. The situation at that time was that the US military had already intervened in the war in South Vietnam, but only fought against the guerrillas in South Vietnam and achieved a series of victories. The US military intelligence department is convinced that an ominous North Vietnamese regular army has penetrated from Cambodia into the Delang River area in central South Vietnam. Colonel Harold Moore, played by Mel Gibson, led the first battalion of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment to the area by helicopter (code-named X-ray area). His task is to search for and annihilate the Vietnamese People's Army there. In the end, the U.S. military successfully repelled the attack of the North Vietnamese army and successfully withdrew from the battlefield. The success of this battle led to the decision of the U.S. senior leaders to fully intervene in the Vietnam War.

I have seen many friends in China criticize the film for flooding the U.S. Today I just want to talk about my own views on the "heroism" and values.

First of all, what is the tradition of American Vietnam War movies? In fact, apart from "Apocalypse Now", "Field Platoon" and "Born on July 4th" in the 1980s and other few films, most of the American Vietnam War movies did not take reflection as their theme. On the contrary, they are all preaching the bravery and toughness of the US military, and always describe the "enemy" of the Vietnamese side as insidious, cunning and cruel sadism. Generally speaking, they will not touch deeper things. Back then, "Field Platoon" Therefore, it has caused such a sensation in the United States because of its unconventional exposure of the atrocities of the US military and the extreme distortion of human nature of the war, which has pulled out a true flag of reflection. And this "We were Soldiers" of course also has extremes. The land promotes the characteristics of American heroism, but its most fundamental purpose is to write a strong desire to fight the war. The people may be too disgusted with the self-promotion of the Americans, so that they ignore the other side of the film. When Moore learned of the action Later, he said to his boss: "Why do we have to travel tens of thousands of miles to a foreign country to die for an unreasonable battle? "At the end of the film, the narrator said, "Tens of thousands of American youth buried their youth there, many of them returned to their hometowns, but their lives have been completely changed. They drove to their hometown vigorously, and when they came back, they didn't have any flowers to welcome them, and some were ignored by society. "Wait for details like this. There are many more details like this in the film. If this is ignored, I am afraid it would be unfair. The same description of Vietnamese soldiers and officers is also rare in Vietnam War films. In the past. In Vietnam War films, they always do their best to demonize and demonize the Vietnamese People’s Army, always portraying them as demon-like characters. However, this film does give them the most positive and humane description. Whether it is command Neither the officials nor the lower-level soldiers deliberately demonized them, but faced them from a more objective standpoint. Especially the sentence at the end of the Vietnamese commander, "The Americans will definitely think this is their victory. , But we will not back down. In the end, we will still win our independence and dignity, even if we need to pay several times the price of the past. "This kind of language probably has never appeared in previous Vietnam War movies. When describing the feelings between American soldiers and their families, father, son and lover, the same description is given to the soldiers of the Vietnam Army in the film, so that people understand that no matter what. Both sides are the same.

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