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originally watched the Ninth Company with the gimmick of "Russian version of "Band of Brothers". Yes, but after watching it, I think it's still a pretty good film.
The film is divided into two parts. The first half describes the hard training and growth experience of a group of Soviet young people in the recruit company, and the second half describes the war in Afghanistan. Similar to the narrative structure of "Band of Brothers". As is the usual way of this type of film, the director chose the central character of the narrative as a 'painter' (I don't know how to translate his Russian name) among the group of young people, through His perspective reflects the entire war process. The 'painter' is a sniper with a handsome face and clear eyes similar to the hero of the prison break. He believes that beauty is to remove excess without any impurities, and the war itself is beautiful. Only It is a pity that he should not have belonged to this unjust war in the first place. Maybe it was a mistake that he came to Afghanistan, so he foresaw his destination in this war in advance. He should have stayed in the Soviet Union and continued to hold His drawing board sketches, although his marksmanship is very accurate, but he is not suitable for holding a gun, which is well reflected from his painful, regretful and frightened eyes after killing the Afghan soldier by mistake. However, the cruelty of war often lies in Beautiful things are most easily destroyed. "Painter" was the first soldier to be killed in the last battle of defending the highlands. It was early in the morning when he went out to sketch with a picture clip on his back. Suddenly, a group of people wrapped in black scarves appeared behind him. An Afghan soldier, a bullet hit his forehead, and his blood immediately colored the mountains and fields he had just drawn, as if he was originally a superfluous thing in this unjust war, destined to be wiped Divide by to complete the beauty of this war. But after thinking about it, the director actually took good care of the role of the 'painter', at least he didn't let him experience the last brutal war of blood and blood, and he didn't let him watch helplessly. His own brothers fell one by one, did not let him replace Big Tooth as the only survivor, did not let him know that the country he fought for would cease to exist in two years.
"We left Afghanistan, and we, the 9th Company, won our own war. But we didn't know it then, we didn't know that in two years, the country we fought for will no longer exist, we had The proud Soviet uniforms and medals are no longer fashionable; I don't know that the instructor of our recruit company continued to serve the country, continued to train recruits in a Russian city, but died in a riot a year later; we I don't know that the frontier city where Snow White and her mother lived, began to be deserted after the war. The new life soon abandoned us mercilessly, some people lived very rich, and some people lived at the bottom of society. We didn't know anything about these conditions until we got back home, we didn't even know that we were forgotten in the chaos by the big forces, in that far high ground. We left Afghanistan, the 9th Company, and we won." This is the end of the film. The lonely and medal-covered "Big Tooth", the only survivor of the highland defense battle, is sitting alone on the roof of a tank and retreating to the Soviet Union. Behind him are the winding and towering mountains of Afghanistan. , the movie ends in such a sad atmosphere. Yes, the 9th Company won its own war, only the USSR lost the war in Afghanistan. The ninth company paid a huge price for almost all the deaths of the whole company, leaving only one survivor, but in exchange for a meaningless battle and sacrifice, when the only surviving "big tooth" reported to the commander that the high ground was preserved and the large force could When he passed safely, the commander asked him why he didn't withdraw before the battle, and why the position and the command had never been connected. Only then did "Big Tooth" know that they were the useless victims forgotten by the large army in the chaos of the defeat and retreat, and he His comrades-in-arms and his brothers were left forever in this remote Afghan highland. In the end, the image of "Big Tooth" kneeling on the orange-yellow high ground filled with wind and sand and crying in the sky can't help but move people.
Look at the background of the war described in this film, the Soviet Union in 1988 was already in the pre-disintegration chaos, and the war in Afghanistan accelerated the process of disintegration. When those guys enlisted in the army, they basically lacked their beliefs. In order to vent their excess youth energy in the war, the scene of conscription before enlisting was the best footnote. And can the Soviet Union of that era give people faith, and can that unjust war be won? So the tragic end of the ninth company is doomed. Abandoned in Afghanistan, they were never meant to be part of the war. So it was inevitable that the Soviet Union would forget them when they withdrew, just as the Soviet Union abandoned its own tradition of heroism. They became innocent "Soviet burial objects". But they were lucky at the same time, at least they couldn't see that the country for which they had shed their blood would suddenly cease to exist. And those who survive will feel nothing but emptiness and confusion, and endless pain. Da Ya left Afghanistan lonely on the tank. His disappointed, empty, indignant eyes have well explained the feelings of the rest of the people.
Some flowers are doomed to die in full bloom. Those young lives are destined to become innocent victims. But, will history repeat itself mercilessly? like Iraq today
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