Politics and war, always go hand in hand

Bernard 2022-03-23 09:02:24

Political film, three narrative lines, three pairs of characters appear one after another, large dialogues, and different viewpoints, there is not much new idea after listening carefully.
The group of Liang Tang and Aunt Mei mainly focus on policies and strategies, but they are nothing more than high-level pats on the head, and they have to be named as saving the world and saving the people. The media is unwilling to be only a microphone, but independent voices are destined to be suppressed.
The dialogue between Director Luo and Andrew Garfield was a bit interesting. Xinxin college students seemed to have a clear understanding of the political tricks, and they chose to stay on their own, not willing to act as tools. The older generation of professors taught earnestly, emphasizing not to do Bystander, even if participating in failure is the same as watching failure, but participating means you have done something.
The last group of two college students' speeches before joining the army made people in other countries like me sound harsh. Although they were patriotic youth, they expressed too much disgusting sense of superiority and great power.
The last scattered scattered, dead dead. It stopped abruptly at 90 minutes, a bit abrupt.
Before I saw it, I didn't expect that in addition to those big names that I heard about, there was also the slightly young Andrew Garfield. This guy played a college student four years ago, and now he is playing a high school student.
After watching this film, I couldn't help but think of a commonplace question: Is it because the United States has too many enemies, so that there are American troops all over the world, or because the United States manages too much, so that there are American enemies all over the world.

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Extended Reading
  • Kadin 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    The cast is very strong and the subject matter is relatively flat

  • Laura 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Redford said through the mouth of a professor that doing anything is better than doing nothing, so the old man made a movie (more like a political class) that the audience in the media critics did not like to teach the people. The people of the Celestial Dynasty said they didn't understand politics, but they still liked the line between teachers and students, and Garfield played the little angry youth very well.

Lions for Lambs quotes

  • Senator Jasper Irving: What I can say is that this strategy has patience and determination at its core. It ensures that it puts our fighting men in spots where they can face, and fight, and kill the enemy, so that we can then go on about rebuilding that country. And if it takes ten years, that's how long we stay, we do whatever it takes.

    Janine Roth: [quoting the Senator] Whatever it takes.

    Senator Jasper Irving: Whatever it takes.

  • Janine Roth: Why did we send 150,000 troops to a country that did not attack us, and one-tenth that number to the one that did?

    Senator Jasper Irving: How many times are you people going to ask the same question?

    Janine Roth: Till we get the answer.