Windtalker

Felipe 2022-03-24 09:02:19

They're all windtalkers.

I don't know when to start, fell in love with these kinds of movies that tell the story of the battlefield. War, friendship, mixed in a hail of bullets.
Soldiers have no choice, they must obey absolutely, these windtalkers, they all have a kind of spirit - military soul.

It was a brutal war. They were ordered to defend a barren and unnamed swamp, and saw one comrade after another fell but could not do anything, listened to their comrades begging to retreat, but they were still bound by orders, and no officer wanted to watch their subordinates die in front of their eyes, but this is the army , they cannot contend with the order.

Joe Enders, the only survivor of that battle, left a permanent scar on his left ear and a permanent mark on his heart. It was his eternal pain, the ear injury and heart injury that accompanied him throughout his life.

He couldn't wait to return to the battlefield, but he was assigned the task of protecting the "crypto warriors", which meant that he could not kill the enemy recklessly regardless of his own life.
The war is cold to everyone, and he also chose to be cold. Facing new comrades, he would rather be treated coldly and have fewer friends than suffer the pain of a friend dying in front of his eyes again.
He returned to the battlefield, and the thrill of killing the enemy made Joe lose his mind. He thought of the comrades in the Solomon Islands, the 14 dedicated comrades in arms, the sad smiles.

Not all soldiers regard the two "crypto warriors" as comrades-in-arms. There will always be people who don't like them, making things difficult, humiliating the two Navajos, saying that they are like Japanese, they don't wear uniforms, they don't recognize them. They are friends and foes.
Facts have proved that on the chaotic battlefield, they are no different from the Japanese army at all. Even if they put on uniforms, they let their own people fire bombs.
And the one who saved them was the Navajo, Ben, who was rejected by a few people.

"You're a good father, Ben."
"You never called me Ben."
At that moment, Joe knew that he could not complete his mission, because there was an order in the mission that the "crypto warrior" could not be captured alive, and he and Ben had already established a friendship. If they really encountered a dangerous situation, He couldn't even start.

Another Navajo, Whitehorse, and another sergeant, Henderson, became not only friends, but also bosom friends. Their performance was just getting a little taste, but it became the last collaboration. Ben said that Whitehorse didn't believe in white people. I can protect him, but I believe that Whitehorse trusts Henderson. He doesn't believe it because he can't feel the whitehorse's love for him, but Henderson can sacrifice his life to protect him. Henderson can't kill his friends at all.
In the end, Whitehorse died at the hands of the white man, at the hands of Joe.
Joe used to struggle between mission and morality, and Whitehorse couldn't help nodding before Joe shuddered and threw the grenade over.
Military souls, Henderson and Whitehorse both have military souls.
After the small battle, Joe sat on the side in a slump, in a trance, even he couldn't believe it, he actually killed his comrade-in-arms, what about the mission? That's his friend.
Ben was so angry that he wanted to kill Joe, and Joe also told him to do it, but Ben couldn't do it either. He had already regarded Joe as a friend.

Ben fought like a madman in the last battle, just like the Joe Enders at the beginning, Joe couldn't quell Ben's anger and had to fight alongside him.
In the end, four people remained, the leader died, and all the responsibility fell on Joe's shoulders again.

"No more dead people." He promised his partner.
Ben was red-eyed on the field, lost his mind, and almost didn't let Joe go.
"Your friend will not come back to life."
"Do you know what a friend is?"
In fact, he did, but he never said it. They lived and died together, and the two smiled at each other.

Facing the incoming Japanese, Ben told Joe to do it, he thought there was no way to escape. But Joe, like Henderson, couldn't do it, that's his friend.
"No more dead, no one will die." Joe put Ben on his shoulders and walked back desperately.

"No one should die, not in front of my eyes, not under my command." I think, that's what Joe thought at the time.

"No more deaths." The
last position was bombed before he died, and Joe kept his oath with his own life.

Army soul.
They're all windtalkers.

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Windtalkers quotes

  • [after Joe takes Yazi's food]

    Charlie Whitehorse: How's your white man?

    Ben Yahzee: Hungry.

  • Ben Yahzee: I'm Ben Yahzee, I guess the corps paired us up, may I join you?

    Joe Enders: You're blocking my view.

    Ben Yahzee: Sorry.

    [about the food]

    Ben Yahzee: What do they call this crap anyway?

    Joe Enders: Marines call it chow.

    Ben Yahzee: Well there is a propaganda effort there.

    Ben Yahzee: [he accidentally knocks over his cup of coffee] Shit, sorry, you could have mine.

    [he then accidentally spills the coffe all over his food]

    Joe Enders: What did you say your name was again?

    Ben Yahzee: Ben Yahzee.

    [Enders gives him his food which has been ruined and takes his food]

    Charlie Whitehorse: [in Navajo] How is your white man?

    Ben Yahzee: Hungry.