do your best

Jennyfer 2022-03-21 09:03:26

"In this chaotic world, you can only do your best." During World War II, the anti-German underground organization Shadow Legion in France, under the cold and neat lens of Mayville, did not have a heroic color of rendering,
only a seemingly bland The real feeling like water has the most shocking impact and a sense of oppression that makes people almost suffocating.

Revolutionaries are as ruthless as the Germans, and they are also blood-stained killers. The meticulous lynching sequence and the plot ending with a cold shot in the cold street are like a heavy hammer that forces the audience to constantly reflect.

High-sounding reasons are nothing but excuses to defend the twisted heart. The heat of the ideal in the heart has become a ghostly fire that embraces the darkness.

A strong sense of fate runs through the whole film, making the audience who are not in troubled times feel a bit of desolation and desolation. Whether in troubled or prosperous times, we all have to do our best.

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Extended Reading
  • Branson 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Probably one of the best movies ever made about the Resistance/Underworld. 1. The characters in Melville's films always seem lonely, stern and resolute, but their hearts are buried with struggles and questions, and weak moments are blocked out of the picture. A fatalistic sense of hopelessness is intertwined with belief at a critical moment, as in Camus' Sisyphus. 2. The film is immersed in a dark blue, claustrophobic composition, minimal editing and scheduling, omitting white space (such as torture scenes), quiet performances and amplified sound effects weave a brutal and tense struggle. The net, in which everyone is deeply immersed. 3. The scene of two executions of traitors/compromisers is shocking, cold and helpless. 4. Game of chance at execution in the bunker: should you run? 5. If I don't believe (death) until the last moment, I will never die, what a great discovery. PS: Subtitles have been revised by a substantial refinement~~ (9.5/10)

  • Vaughn 2022-03-24 09:03:48

    Even unpleasant memories I accept because those were my distant youthful years

Army of Shadows quotes

  • Philippe Gerbier: See you later, Comrade.

    Legrain: ...You're a communist?

    Philippe Gerbier: No. But I can still have comrades.

  • Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque': Still thinking about the others?

    [referring to the resistance fighters, who, like him, were targets in the German shooting gallery]

    Philippe Gerbier: No, I was thinking of the officer who was sure I'd run too. Like a scared rabbit...