Some people use the German version of "Band of Brothers" to evaluate this drama, but I think the focus is still a little off. After all, the Company of Brothers has a history of a few years, and the mainstream melodies of the past few years have not yet transferred to the concept of ordinary "people" in war, at most the level of ordinary "soldier". And the difference between soldiers and people is the best embodiment of the cruelty of war.
The Germans couldn't make films on the Western Front, because they played too smoothly in the Western Front. If they were filmed now, they would probably be squinted by the two big hooligans in the West, Britain and France, so they were all miserable in the east. On the contrary, the United Kingdom and the United States also took Dunkirk into a huge carnival. It happens that the Russians, the fighting race, also like to sell their pity, so the Russians sell their pity before 1943, and the Germans sell their pity after 1943, and they live in peace with each other.
The German flavor of this film is very strong, which can be seen from the often quoted Clausewitz-style quotations in the film's lines. Recently, more and more war films have embarked on the road of thinking about the relationship between the dead and the living, and more and more pave the way for the two story lines of the front and the rear. The first time I saw a film with a better rear line was Cold Mountain, the story of the American Civil War, which directly tore away the glory of soldiers and the meaning of war. You are dying in the front, and the police are fucking your wife in the back. What's the point of such a blackened world worth fighting for? Human nature is ugly, war just helps you see it clearly.
The gap between the roles of ordinary people and soldiers is not too big. It is probably the gap between the anti-Japanese films made by the Chinese and the World War II films made by the Japanese. There are almost only a handful of Chinese WWII films, most of which are cute and stupid, and the few realistic works are basically low-key in terms of publicity. The reason is not on the table, sorry. Most of the films shot in District 11 still can’t escape the hat of conjuring the soul. I saw a film about the Kamikaze flying team before and can’t remember the name. Probably the taste is the heaviest. The mid-range taste is the Yamato of the men, and the people of the big ship and the artillery can take a look and wash their brains. What strikes my heart is the sea without exit. It tells the tragic story of Huitian people playing torpedo operators, erasing the meaning of people and leaving only the meaning of weapons. The description of "people" in war is quite in place, and it is worth watching.
For war, to get rid of those games of power, it's a complete tragedy. However, the tragedy of production and the tragedy of consumption also make up human life.
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