people in war are like ants under our fingertips.
Why? Why did creation create mankind, yet it makes us so weak and vulnerable? And where is the value of life?
After I experienced the twenty-five of the flesh and blood, torn apart, I thought I understood. We live to uphold justice; we live to eradicate evil. When thousands of Americans, British and Canadians rushed to the French beach called Normandy to fight the Germans. What I thought of was the so-called lofty idea of "killing to be benevolent, giving up life for justice" by ancient Chinese sages, and it was the great spirit of modern revolutionaries who "threw their heads and spread their blood" to brave righteousness. They shed blood and sacrifices on lands in a foreign country for the peace and peace of all mankind. The soldiers who are still alive deserve our respect as much as the dead bodies that fell on the sea and on the beach.
However, I was wrong. When I saw the old mother who had three sons taken away by the war in two days, leaning tremblingly against the door; when I saw the metal plaques that originally hung on the necks of soldiers, representing their lives, scattered all over. At the time, I realized: I was wrong! No one is that great, no one is afraid of death. The fragility of life is not only reflected in its ability to be shattered so easily, but also in our strong fear of such fragility. Why send a group of soldiers to find the soldier named Ryan? Because he is the only remaining son of the old mother. The answer is simple but true. The maintenance of life needs to be exchanged for the value of life. Perhaps the value of life lies in this: we fear death, but we are even more afraid that the people we care about and love will be taken away from their lives!
However, I was wrong again. The mistake is to generalize, the mistake is to be biased. Private Ryan, who did not finally appear until the latter half of the film, insisted on staying to complete the mission and staying with his comrades under the premise that his superiors ordered him to leave the battlefield; Captain Miller, who led his team to the test of life and death, When he was about to complete his mission, he decided to fight, using his injured body and a pistol to block the enemy's tank. There are other warriors who fought bravely and fought bravely. They are righteous and fearless to die. What is supporting their nerves and bodies? What makes them have no regrets even if they give up their lives for it? In fact, they are all ordinary people, with ordinary people's emotions and thoughts. And when the "moment" came, they all became heroes, the most outstanding of their peers.
Because of the different circumstances of each of us, the "moment" is also different. It may be a cruel war, or it may be just a child who has fallen into the water... But the value of each of us will never be reflected in the ordinary and ordinary meals and nights that are repeated every day. It will flash only a few times in our life, or even the only one "at that moment", and usually we are just ordinary people.
When I finally watched this film, the most memorable thing in my mind was not the opening 25 minutes. It was the shot of the injured Captain Miller leaning on the ruined wall, weakly but firmly raising his pistol and shooting at the German tank.
Remember his pre-war career? And "at that moment" he has become a hero!
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