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There are too many movies with anti-war themes. HAGGIS has taken a different approach, taking the distorted morbid psychology of soldiers in the war as a breakthrough, and intending to highlight their reflections, but soldiers are only a small group of war victims, and suffer more. ordinary people. Such a narrative focus is naturally too one-sided and insufficient.
Sort out the details of the film.
1. Most of the radio and TV in the whole film broadcast information about war. In the first two minutes, when JONES was repairing his car, the message that came out of the radio was that he advocated war. In about five minutes, JONE was driving at night. Paragraph
2, begins with a small narrative technique. That shady monologue is the source of MIKE's psychological change by the war. In the next scene, it jumps to the news that Jones lost his son.
3. There is a video of the war, people were burned to death, but their clothes were intact. This is the reason why chemical weapons were used. War, how cruel!
4. There was a woman who was drowned by her veteran husband because she loved her dog. When she reported the case, everyone scoffed at it as a joke. In the end, the woman was also drowned by her mentally deranged husband. Looking at the dialogue at the time of the report and the report at the scene later, you can see that the woman's husband is a veteran. It's a metaphorical plot that reinforces the theme.
5. Many people ask where is Spider-Man's friend James Franco? In fact, he was in the army at the beginning, receiving Jones. About seven minutes into the film.
6, HAGGIS screenwriter is really strong. There was some dialogue at the beginning, but after rereading it a second time, I could see the taste. Franco received JONES and said a word: "If they stay in the place where they are sent, if they stay for a few days, it is a miracle that they can't escape." Drugs, patronizing porn bars, stabbing comrades who have lived and died together, etc.
7. The Valley of Elah tells a story of courage. This film is a story about the psychology of a soldier. It seems to be irrelevant. In fact, DAVID refers to those soldiers who are forced to go to the battlefield. They have always been afraid. War, but so helpless and pitiful. In the end, you can only stand up and apply for the competition under the inspiration of courage.
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