Black and white can have color, they can't go back with it

Theron 2022-03-24 09:03:19

At twelve o'clock at night, there were no tears. After watching the film in one breath, the black and white film is technically restored to color, and everyone and everything in front of the screen seems to indicate that this is a movie, but it is so real that people start to feel suffocated and panic. Fragmented memories piece together deep memories that belong to real historical facts. Even with laughter and celebrations, fears that cannot be perceived in the peaceful years are still rising in the countless faces in the color picture, and the black and white picture of the celebration slides to the bottom. In the life after the end, there is too much information hidden behind this war, ordinary soldiers seem to be involved in it, but they don't understand many things. This film has a completely different experience. I am not walking into other people's lives. The black and white color of the picture falls back into black and white. It is like riding a boat, slipping into the past war years, and getting out smoothly. In many episodes, it can be overwhelming to mix life and death all at once. Thoughts seem to be hanged in barbed wire in front of trenches. The sight of blood and flesh and the stench traveled to modern times, how long did the sound of gunfire stop at that time? Has the era of peace really come? The description in "The Kite Runner" began to climb up the vines. There are more soldiers in the film, but I am still desperate for war. When the experience fills the body, everything takes on a different attitude. The paintbrush of the old memory video stained with color paints deeply and silently drew a line in my heart. May peace last forever, I am fortunate and pray silently.

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They Don't Get Old Anymore (2018)
8.8
2018 / UK New Zealand / Historical War Documentary / Peter Jackson

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  • Amparo 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    Their faces are no longer getting old, but their voices are only vicissitudes. Although it is still the mode of oral history, it completely restores the whole (psychological) process from enlistment to return from a first-person perspective, and when technology makes the image come alive, people who have not experienced it can finally immerse in it and experience it. Even if one ten millionth of their unspeakable fear, courage, cruelty, and blood, will not be as indifferent as those who did not go to the battlefield when their youthful faces are instantly turned into mutilated bodies and limbs. They return from one purgatory and enter another. Looking at their laughter and tears in the camera, when will this world have a longer memory?

  • Onie 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    This documentary commemorating the centenary of the First World War can be called an epic masterpiece. The black and white images that were sleeping in the Imperial Museum in London were awakened by modern technology. Peter Jackson used magic to make them "not getting old" again. If you are there, no matter how shocking the war movies are, they are not as touching as these real pictures. They do not have names, identities or backgrounds in the picture. They have become historical symbols in the scouring of the century-old wave. What they hear are their detailed descriptions of life on the battlefield, sentence after sentence, without giving the audience any time to breathe. , just like the battles and bombings they experienced, they didn't give them any time to breathe.

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They Shall Not Grow Old quotes

  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.