War movies are my favorite type of movies, but there are not many movies in this category, they are updated slowly, and they are mainly produced by Hollywood. why? First of all, war films cost a lot of money, and as a genre film, the market is relatively small. At the same time, except for the United States, few countries fight every day, so there is not much material to mine.
Russia can be said to be the country that has experienced the most wars in the past 20 years except the United States. So since 2000, many masterpieces of Russian war films have emerged. "The Ninth Company", "August 8" and "Brest Fortress" are all classics.
"The Ninth Company" tells the story of what happened at the last moment of the ten-year war of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1989. "August 8" takes place in the 2008 Five-Day War between Russia and Georgia because of the independence of South Ossetia. The film is interspersed with various sudden imaginations of mother and son, and there is a hint of the magical reality of the Yugoslav movie "Underground". Taste, this film is also the only one of the three films that has an anti-war complex. "Brest Fortress" is a standard World War II movie. The Nazis crossed the Polish border and raided the Soviet Union. The frontier fortress with singing and dancing wife and fat child instantly became an isolated city surrounded by enemy troops. Smashing Nazis with a bench and so on.
Russian war movies are slightly more realistic than Hollywood war movies. In this era of computer stunts, Hollywood seems to have a tendency to get lost in special effects, overemphasizing the sensory stimulation of pictures and sound effects, and making the scenes on the screen overly entertaining , detracting from the overall sense of story and authenticity. The Russian war movies in the new century did not spend a lot of ink on describing the whizzing of bullets, the galloping of cannonballs, etc., but the special effects and stories are well combined on the bridges that everyone is familiar with. , so that the audience can better feel the emotional impact of the characters in the story, instead of trying to avoid bullets.
Every nation has its own peculiarities, and the Russian nation that produced Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, and Dostoevsky also has its fascinating elements. Russia, the land of double-headed eagles - On the side of the face of a melancholy and compassionate Orthodox saint, is the angry look of another Golden Horde Khan with a fierce and aggressive nature of Kongwu.
Patriotism is not used to be emphasized in Russian movies at all, it is just a default story background. From the Jewish political commissar of the Red Army with the face of a saint to the unruly gangsters on the battlefield in Afghanistan, no one has ever questioned devotion to the country. meaning. The chief asked people who were unwilling to go to Afghanistan to be listed. Even those who had planned to collude, they did not take that step because of a sense of honor. Of course, you can also say shame, honor itself is a feeling of shame for disrespect.
Love has never had too many seats in war movies. It's not that the soldiers have no feelings, it's just that time is limited and it's flawless. Looking at the garbage war TV dramas in China, all kinds of 2B women are showing off in them, it is really admirable, except for "My Head, My Regiment", there are no war movies in China.
"Brest Fortress" briefly describes the love between a courier and a saleswoman, but the ending is tragic; in "The Ninth Company", the dentist's daughter at first thought she had a brain problem, but when the painter talked to her, she It shows that her intelligence is completely normal. She calls all the little soldiers who go to her as guests. It can be seen that this girl is indeed a goddess. Seeing this, I can't help but want to worship; the heroine of "August 8th" is to save her son. , going through hardships, but I still think she's a bit of a nympho, but her little nympho instead outlines the brave and handsome soldiers who receive lunch boxes. In order to make the audience a little reverie, the director had to let the heroine see one ambiguous one.
When watching Russian war movies, remember two things: 1. Don’t get too close to the Soviet Union’s past. If you have a Soviet complex, it doesn’t mean that the director also has it, and it doesn’t mean that every Russian has it. It has been 20 years since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. I have grown up; 2. Russians are not Americans, and their national character and aesthetic views may not be the same. When Hollywood was showing off men, Russian films tried to make men a little bit human. It can be seen that the two ethnic groups have different tastes, which in turn shows that In fact, there are not many fierce men in the United States, and there are actually no men in Russia.
In short, when watching a movie, you should be calm, forget yourself, forget your nation, forget your country, and forget that you are a human being, just treat yourself as an alien who travels in space and meets the earth, and sits on a flying saucer to watch a random piece of the earth. Check out the works of art photographed by tiny humans.
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