The significance of the existence of a reporter is that she goes to those places where mortals are unable or unwilling to be there in person, witnesses what happened, bears everything in it silently, and then uses the most powerful language and pictures to convey the most intuitive first to the audience. hand feel. This is especially true of war reporters. Their courage is no less than that of the soldiers who charged on the battlefield, and they even experienced more wars than all soldiers. This courage is not only the bravery of going to the battlefield in the face of the hail of bullets, but also the perseverance that disregards the tears that burst from the eyes, gritted his teeth, and faced the most severe stinging pain in the world.
This is a biographical film about war correspondent Marie Colvin. In her nearly 30-year career, she has been at the scene of almost every major conflict in the world, covering East Timor, Kosovo, Iraq, Palestine, and Libya. She was the first Western reporter to interview Gaddafi after Murray had a bad relationship. She lost her left eye on the battlefield in Sri Lanka, which made the blindfold her most prominent symbol. She always appeared in the most dangerous places. She was the first to arrive at the front line of the Syrian civil war and was the last Western reporter to stay in Homs. She finally stayed in Homs forever in 2012.
"People connect with people", the cannonball may have camps at the moment it is shot, but when it falls, it is all human beings who are hit, which is a damage to the entire human civilization. At this time, the reporter assumes the role of a historian in a sense. She needs to stand in the perspective of the whole, without excessively mixing the subjective color of the individual, and record everything objectively and truthfully. Marie returns to the battlefield time and time again, not to guide the direction of public opinion, but to present the truth to us who are far away from the battlefield, even if the story here may be unjust, even dark and ugly.
“Safa Abu Seif.”
"Which newspaper is he from?"
"She was a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who was pierced through the heart by a stray bullet, and I watched her die as she lay in her parents' arms. She was wearing a pair of pearl earrings, and she must have thought she was beautiful that day. ."
Marie Colvin alone certainly cannot change the world, but the millions of readers behind the text hold the button to change the world. When people are able to get in touch with the truth at the closest distance and be there, justice can be upheld and defended, and life can continue to be hopeful. Only when you understand all this, can you have the motivation to stick to this "exclusive war experience" as your life's sustenance. In and out of the movie, Marie is not the first war correspondent to die, and what you have exchanged for blood is such a heavy truth.
Aside from the movie itself, the story reminds me the most of the place where Marie's life ended - Syria. This is the cradle of human civilization, the birthplace of religious culture, the place where milk and honey flow from the mouth of the Holy See, and Saladin, the most powerful lord in West Asia, was born. One of the undeniably prosperous and powerful countries in West Asia. Today, the country has been broken into countless small pieces, serving as a chessboard for the great powers, poured with cannon fire and death. In the nighttime light remote sensing, the former "capital" of ISIS, Raqqa, the pearl on the Euphrates River, was almost completely destroyed and turned into darkness; the second largest city, Aleppo, as the focus of many parties, was destroyed by more than half and lost 85% Damascus, the largest city, has been exposed to war for a long time as a front line, and suffered heavy losses, and the entire east seems to have been wiped out; and Homs, where Marie was buried, was bombed to ruins in the movie before the war. The third largest city is already the one with less losses. The lights that have been taken away reflect the sudden reduction of human activities, just like the fate of the Syrian people, swallowed up step by step in cruelty and despair, it is not that they have no courage to fight, but all actions are so powerless, just like Throwing a piece of sand into the vast Mediterranean, what they have to resist is not only their own destiny, but the entire world mixed in here.
Marie interviewed an asylum seeker in Homs, and she wanted Marie to tell the world, "Children are dying here, a whole generation is dying," not just in terms of people's physical destruction, but also their spiritual connection. Will, thoughts and feelings, and the entire chain that could last indefinitely in the future have been cut off by external forces, and this destruction will reverse, erasing the front end of the chain and the unrecorded history of the past. I feel extremely sad about this. In this splendid and colorful land, many stories that we could have been told have been doomed to annihilation. Life is endless on the sandy sea... When people can't even save their lives, what about the culture and heritage that has been dusted for thousands of years?
Finally, I would like to thank Pei Chunhua. I have been shocked by Amazing Amy once in "Gone Girl". I really didn't expect you to have more powerful energy. Although I missed this year's Golden Globe Awards, it will definitely leave you next time. farther away.
Wonderful, recommended, not favorite.
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