The only people in France who can be looked down upon by the Chinese are the Arabs. So this film that attempts to justify the Arabs is not to my liking. I believe there must have been quite a few Arabs who did make admirable sacrifices in that era, but from a cinematic point of view, this was not a great war movie. Much worse than Saving Private Ryan.
The subtitled films from the very beginning tried to emphasize culture and nationality. But I personally don't feel like I see any substantive Arabic culture other than the habit of being wrapped all over but wearing sandals. Said joined the army inexplicably with a call, and then went to the Stone Mountains in southern Italy to be shot by the Germans. It's really hard for them to find such bald, broken, rocky hills in Italy (many Arab brothers wear sandals to the hills!). Obviously a lot of Islamic brothers died, so simply take a picture of the imam standing in front of the corpse and it's over. There is absolutely no shocking effect of the cemetery in "Saving the Privates".
The actors are all Arabs, and two are still famous. But they usually specialize in playing small gangsters to play funny roles, and it's a bit nondescript to use them as protagonists. The editing of the film can be said to be a mess and lack of coherence. It seems to divide the play equally among the four main characters. Everything was trying to fit into this movie, and it fell apart.
It's a pity that a good subject is so bad. Maybe the French are really not suitable for making war movies, or the Americans are familiar with it.
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