he is my friend

Citlalli 2022-03-23 09:02:16

Wu Yusen almost represents the highest level of Hong Kong directors, and he also has a typical Hong Kong brand on him. Hong Kong's small market and the relative backwardness of the film industry make Hong Kong directors less accomplished in big scenes than Hollywood, just like the background of World War II, but the grandeur cannot be compared with "Saving Private Ryan" at all. However, the small place also endows Hong Kong directors with more human touch, especially the brotherhood formed in the process of jointly creating the Hong Kong film market. In the 1970s and 1980s, a large number of Hong Kong films were shot with an astonishing two to three months. It also gave Hong Kong directors a vast training ground.
When brothers most often say "don't want to be born in the same year and the same month, but want to die in the same year and the same month", and for comrades-in-arms, it is this kind of absolute friendship that depends on life and death. In order to complete the task of defending the swamp, Joe lost 15 good brothers who depended on each other for life and death. This huge anger made him just want to return to the battlefield and kill more enemies. This is a kind of moving, but it is only based on morality and goes against the responsibility of personal anger. In one operation, Ben, the brave Navajo man who saved the team for his bravery, began to impress Joe with him. And when Joe had to kill the captured Ben's kin in order to defend the code, he once again witnessed the madness he had just returned to the battlefield, only this time it was Ben. Fortunately, Joe at this time has learned responsibility, and he has learned to let his current comrades live instead of dying for dead comrades. Ben saved Joe's soul, and Joe ended up saving Ben's life.
A few years later, when the war subsided, and Ben stood on the mountain in his hometown, put on his son's Joe's name tag and told his son, if you ever tell a story about him, say he was my friend, I believe Ben learned this too. A life-and-death absolute friendship. This is the transformation of a boy into a man.

ps: I have to complain, the nurse's emotional drama with Joe is so nonsensical, I don't see any need at all

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  • Velda 2022-04-23 07:02:43

    no more wars,for god's sake

  • Colton 2022-04-23 07:02:43

    The Japanese soldiers feel too mentally retarded, and I think the distortion of war films in this regard is fatal. But just because the old beauty and the little Japan are strangled on the battlefield, it is also worth watching this film.

Windtalkers quotes

  • Ben Yahzee: Hey do you guys know where we would find second joint assualt singnal?

    Marine: No fuckin' idea mac.

    Ben Yahzee: Thanks, thanks a bunch.

  • Charlie Whitehorse: [in Navajo] I've never seen so many white men.

    Ben Yahzee: Oh, they've never seen so many Navajos before.

    Ben Yahzee: Enders, I can't find Whitehorse anywhere. Have you seen him?

    Joe Enders: He's over there.

    Ben Yahzee: [he sees his friend dead, blown up by a grenade with other Japanese soldiers] This was suppose to be a secured area, what happened?

    Joe Enders: I killed him.

    Ben Yahzee: You what?

    Joe Enders: I took a grenade, threw it in there and blew him up.