Lebanon

On the first day of the Lebanese civil war in 1982, a tank on the battlefield cooperated with a team of infantrymen to perform a seemingly simple task. However, the gunner was a new recruit. It was the first time he performed a mission that required killing people. In the face of a sudden terrorist attack, he was in disarray and did not shoot, causing the sacrifice of his comrades. An innocent civilian was killed. On the verge of collapse, he began to quarrel in the small tank space with an inexperienced commander, a loader who leaned on his old age, and a driver who missed his mother. However, the external environment was getting worse and worse, and they entered a small town. From the eyepiece, they saw the killing of each other. They then strayed into Syrian-occupied territory, and the tanks were hit and damaged by rockets. After some choices, they had to take advantage of the night to break out of the siege, but they also paid a heavy price - their driver died, and just before his death, the captain sent a message to his mother saying that he was fine.

The film is adapted from a true story, to be exact, the director's own real experience. The entire scene of the film is in a small tank, and the perspectives are all based on the tanker as the observation point, or through the eyepiece to observe the cruel world of killing outside, or through the dialogue between them to reveal the psychological changes of ordinary soldiers in war. The inside of the dirty, narrow tank is mixed with the smell of oil smoke, gunpowder and blood, and there is no such thing as a so-called war hero. The soldiers were timid at the beginning, then reckless, and then couldn't bear to kill. Finally, after wandering between life and death, after surviving, they knew how to respect the same kind around them, whether they were your enemies on the battlefield or not. The film does not have the grandeur of the previous war scenes, nor the embodiment of personal heroism. What it describes is only the true reflection of ordinary people as soldiers on the battlefield. There are almost no female characters in the film, but it does not affect the soldiers' desire for life and life; there is no background music in the film, but the roar of tanks and the collision of weapons just tell the audience the environment in which the story takes place; the actors are not so-called handsome European and American stars. , but some "soldiers" who speak Arabic, have unshaven beards, and have greasy faces, but when they finally help the captured enemy soldiers who cut their hands to urinate, I can feel the return of humanity under the cruelty of war. The film only explains the whole picture of the tank from the outside in the last shot. I personally think it's a very worthwhile film.

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