I want to say everything, but I can't say anything

Lamar 2022-03-23 09:02:24

Another not-so-powerful movie, albeit with a strong cast.
The story is divided into three lines, a battlefield, an interview and a heart-to-heart talk. The professor worries about a student's future and hopes to change his mind and life through the example of two students he has taught. At this time, the two people standing on the edge of life and death on the battlefield were the students of the professor, and the content of the interview was the beginning of this small battle.
The three stories are interspersed with each other, and I wanted to use a special structure to tell the story, but it didn't work well. The whole article is three scenes alternately switched, and it becomes boring after two times. And the connection between the scenes is not smooth, you can only rely on a lot of dialogue to let you understand the connection of the stories that happened in the three scenes. As you can guess the process of switching, the conversation here comes to an end, and it must go to the next one.
At the same time, there are too many political opinions that this film wants to express. It criticizes all kinds of social and political issues, and in the end, what I want to express the most is not clear, and the sacrifice of the two soldiers is not at all. Shock me...

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  • Caitlyn 2022-04-23 07:02:58

    ▤ "We both put our fighting men at risk. Now, I've admitted my mistakes. When will you?" "They bank on your apathy, they bank on your wilful ignorance. They plan strategies around it. They try to figure out how much they can get away with because of it.”

  • Haylee 2021-12-24 08:01:50

    Absolute star lineup, but. . . Robert Redford did a good job in this film, but he couldn't direct it.

Lions for Lambs quotes

  • Lt. Col. Falco: Suffice it to say the enemy is getting stronger and the enemy is getting uglier. We're going to put our foot on their throats.

  • Professor Stephen Malley: [to Todd metaphorically] Rome is burning. And the problem is not just with the people who started it. They're past irredeemable. The problem's with all of us who do nothing.