From boy to man

Casey 2022-03-25 09:01:23

I have always liked war films, probably because I think war films touch life and death in order to be shocking. It just so happens that I have not been very busy with work recently. Tonight I watched a "Ninth Commando" co-produced by Russia and Ukraine. I always thought that only the United States could make thought-provoking war movies, but I changed my opinion after watching "The Ninth Commando".

"Ninth Commando" is set in the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Describes the days and nights of a small army, young boys who go to the battlefield after a short training. War, the pursuit of young people, and the friendship of men are reflected in the vast battlefield and the unknown life and death, which are in line with the famous rotten works that our country has dedicated in recent years, such as "Out of the Amazon", "I Am Special Forces" and "Youth in War". slice ratio. We see the rise of the younger generation of Russian directors and the hope of Russian filmmakers. We watch war movies, not to watch computer stunts, nor to watch "soldiers are human beings, and they also have emotional entanglements."

AK-74 rifle, Mi-24 gunship, T-72 tank, RPK machine gun, BMP infantry fighting vehicle, "Ninth Commando" completely presents a different style from American movies. Likewise, I couldn't help but think of another American movie I once watched, "Born on the Fourth of July", and when I saw they all had something in common - the process of going from boy to man, it's not just saying The war has trained them, but they have come to understand that life is more important than everything else. I think this may be the reason why current Korean dramas can defeat our emotions. Compared with the grand narrative and revolutionary feelings of our country, the warmth of human feelings and the truth of life in Korean dramas completely defeat politics. Let us use Live instead of looking at the world along the lines of a news feed. In "Born on the Fourth of July", the boy is full of longing for war and enthusiasm for national honor. After losing a game in high school, he has strong self-esteem and longs for war to shape himself into a real man~ So he resolutely participated in the Vietnam War . Indeed, the war had shaped him, and after being paralyzed for the rest of his life, he suddenly understood how small all the honors and grand narrative themes had become compared to life. Maybe it just confirms the words of American writer Salinger in "The Catcher in the Rye": "An immature person will die vigorously for a principle, while a mature person will live humbly for a principle." I Think the latter principle refers to life.

From boys to men, maturity shaped by war is more than just toughness. Didn't the young soldiers in the movie also fall into the distortion of human nature and deep pain and fear after the brutal battle? This is the real war! It's not the games that our country shoots that look like mentally handicapped wars. The emotional entanglement in men's dramas, women's dramas, love triangles, and even sex scenes and kissing scenes annihilates the essence of war movies that were originally intended to be conveyed to people.

The soldiers in "The Ninth Commando" lived at the bottom of the society after the war. The country they fought for also disintegrated after 2 years, and it is no longer a strong country. They became a forgotten bunch.

Life is more important than everything. The war has shaped boys into men. In fact, what they know is life, the courage and responsibility they should have in life, and how not to be discouraged in the face of adversity, because living well is the greatest happiness, no matter what kind of trouble you have now, Take life itself as the whole of life, not study, work, and love as the whole life.
People are like feathers flying in the wind in "Forrest Gump". They are erratic and have no destination. What is it pursuing? Everyone's answer is different, so we can say that the answer is in the wind, who knows whose shoulders this feather will fall on tomorrow? Cherish the present, live a good life ~ go on happily!

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9th Company quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Hohol: This is war! They don't put low grades here! They kill!

  • Lyutyy: We were leaving Afghanistan. We, the 9th company, we won our war. Back then we didn't know many things. We didn't know that, two years later, the country we had fought for would vanish. That wearing medals of a nonexistent country would become unfashionable.