Do it whether you want it or not.

Elinor 2022-03-23 09:02:59

What impressed me the most in the film was the scene where the fighters were complaining about everything in front of them. You would think why these guys are so rotten, unpatriotic, and not like the fighters in our country's movies, who made all kinds of rhetoric. But, I like their complaints, that's the real feeling.
When that soldier saw his dead comrade on the ground, grabbed his comrade and roared, you were lying. His eyes were full of helplessness and sadness, completely subverting the image of the soldiers in the usual movies who vowed to fight their enemies when they saw their comrades die. Perhaps in the soldier's heart, the meaning of this war did not matter to him at all, he just hoped that he and his companions could go home safe and sound.
This is the real war, not rushing forward when you hear the sound of gunshots, but hiding behind cover and shooting, even random shooting; not all kinds of rhetoric, but non-stop complaining...

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  • Joshua McDonough: They're gathering intel right now, basically, on how to deal with us because they haven't - - there's no real research or intel on how to treat us right now because they haven't had to deal with people like us since WWII and Vietnam, you know, dealing with guys that are coming back from 15 month deployments with as much fighting, you know, as we went through.