At the beginning of the film, it was stated that of the 12 people who went on the mission, only one came back, and it was a real thing. Obviously, the suspense of the film is not on whether the male protagonist escaped the pursuit of the German army, but on making the audience guess how he survived.
This kind of movie has always been very marketable and interesting. However, it is actually a bit dangerous to explain that the male protagonist is alive at the beginning. If the plot is not exciting, the audience will think: Anyway, he survived in the end, so it doesn't seem to matter whether he watches the process or not. However, the director or screenwriter actually filmed this escape process into a heart-pounding and thrilling manner.
Regarding the tasks performed by these 12 people, the film did not explain it through the intermittent memories of the male protagonist until the end.
I was very impressed by the few details of the filming. One of them is the Gestapo, played by Jonathan Rice-Meyers, who asked the prisoners to test how long they could stay in the ice water. This detail reflects the seriousness, meticulousness and calmness of the Germans in their work. Seeing that he couldn't find a stronger prisoner to conduct the experiment, he decided to go into the water by himself, and when he counted, it really exceeded the audience's expectations. If you were a Japanese or an American, you wouldn't have to suffer this sin on your own.
In addition, in the wooden house in the mountains, the male protagonist had several consecutive dreams, dreaming that the German army broke in to arrest him. This kind of overlapping of several dreams was shown in the movie "Inception". I also had this kind of dream in reality. I dreamed of something. I thought I woke up, but I found that it was still a dream, waiting for breath. Passed, and found that it was still in a dream. The display of this dream of the male protagonist is a bit like a thriller in the whole film, which well reveals the psychology and anxiety of the male protagonist at that time.
In addition, when the male protagonist stayed under the rocks on the mountain for a few days, and finally waited for the person to meet up, the dialogue between the two of them was also very humorous and interesting. The person who responded said: We are going to take you to Sweden. The male protagonist said with a smile: After using it for so long, your skiing skills are really poor. The person who responded said: If I knew you were so thin, I would do it alone. The short two-sentence dialogue seems to be ridiculing and relaxed, but it reflects the male protagonist's waiting mood, posture, and the surprise of the responder when he sees the male protagonist.
The male protagonist's experience in the film has twists and turns, all of which are very extraordinary, and can be called a life of nine deaths. His experience is comparable to that of "The Revenant" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. After being injured at first, he had to swim across the bay in the icy waters and almost died of freezing; later he encountered an avalanche on a snowy mountain and was almost buried in the snow; then he was in a log cabin because of an infection of his toe, and he made up his mind to cut the gangrene with a knife. , almost died of pain; then, at the connection point on the mountain, because he said the wrong place, the male protagonist waited for four days in vain and almost starved to death; when he finally crossed the border, he was about to escape the search of the Germans, but unexpectedly The reindeer's rope was broken, and the male protagonist was exposed to the eyes of the German army and was almost killed. I really can't make up this story.
The male protagonist's appearance and demeanor are somewhat similar to Tim Ross, who starred in "The Pianist at Sea", especially his eyes. It can be seen that this buddy suffered a lot and suffered a lot in filming this movie, but his acting skills are very real and natural, not inferior to Leonardo DiCaprio, and he truly reproduces a hero who escaped from the tiger's mouth. experience.
Speaking of which, this can be regarded as a "main theme movie". The male protagonist has received the help of many people from beginning to end to survive the hardship and survive the difficulties. And the people who helped him also consciously helped the hero because they needed a miracle. This type of film has also been made in China, but unfortunately it is far from reaching this level.
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