The wind is silent

Ken 2022-03-22 09:02:05

I was really moved when I saw this movie.
Think of the words in the article you have read.
- "Can you imagine? When I returned to the voyage, I saw that the sea was so peaceful and beautiful, and why should we have a war?"
I think, only people who have really experienced war would hate war that much.
The sergeant with his left ear was the Navajo he called Ben.
They feared the same thing, death—the death of each other, the death of all the brothers who were with each other.
Not so much fear in the face of war as fear in the face of death.
What was most touching was the image of the simple Ben and White Horse praying for the dead comrades in the Navajo ritual. He was serious but smiling, and at this time Joe looked at him not far away, each with his own deep thoughts, each with his own difference. in their own grief.
However, soon after, whether Joe could predict that Ben's ritual would be fulfilled in himself.

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Extended Reading

Windtalkers quotes

  • [after Joe takes Yazi's food]

    Charlie Whitehorse: How's your white man?

    Ben Yahzee: Hungry.

  • Ben Yahzee: I'm Ben Yahzee, I guess the corps paired us up, may I join you?

    Joe Enders: You're blocking my view.

    Ben Yahzee: Sorry.

    [about the food]

    Ben Yahzee: What do they call this crap anyway?

    Joe Enders: Marines call it chow.

    Ben Yahzee: Well there is a propaganda effort there.

    Ben Yahzee: [he accidentally knocks over his cup of coffee] Shit, sorry, you could have mine.

    [he then accidentally spills the coffe all over his food]

    Joe Enders: What did you say your name was again?

    Ben Yahzee: Ben Yahzee.

    [Enders gives him his food which has been ruined and takes his food]

    Charlie Whitehorse: [in Navajo] How is your white man?

    Ben Yahzee: Hungry.