Real and delicate

Kiarra 2021-10-18 09:29:02

Brothers is a very manly movie. Sometimes I like watching movies like this, male, masculine. Although I am very satisfied with my identity as a woman, I have been envious of the friendship between men since I was a child. Everything is spread out, and you can even shake your fists when you are in a dispute, but things are past, and there is no need to save a bit of grievance. What I dislike most is that the girls are muttering on the surface and behind the amiable atmosphere, ganging up, and hello today and tomorrow. Of course, I learned later that whether it is trivial or not has much to do with gender. Although there are many little women in this world, there are also many little men.

There is no room for pretense in war. When survival has become a kind of uncertainty, the glitz is gone, and everyone shows their most authentic self. Life has become so light and fate is unknowable.

The unique feature of the Brothers Company is that the narrative perspective of each episode is different, although they are all based on the E Company of the 101st Airborne Division. My favorite is the Battle of Bastogne, with Military Medical Doctor Luo as the narrator, and the ninth episode with the Knicks as the perspective of observation-why we fight.

When I watched the title, I was infected by a confused Junxiu's face. After searching for a long time, I discovered that this face belonged to the military doctor Eugene Luo. The Battle of Bastogne was about the cruelest battle ever encountered by Company E. As a military doctor, Luo saw death and pain every day. He ran through foxholes, shuttled between the front line and the rear. A nurse at the back gave him chocolate as a touch of warmth in the film. She still died in the bombing, and he only retrieved her blue turban. Later, because of the lack of gauze, the turban was torn to bandage the wound. Nothing can be left in the war. The most intriguing me is the look in his eyes, confused and tired.

The ninth episode is the most rigorously structured episode. The flashback technique echoes the beginning and the end, so it also appears deliberate. In one detail, Nix looked for a drink, entered a house, looked at the photo, and discovered that the owner of the house was a Nazi officer, so he smashed the photo. The hostess came out, dressed in red, serious and arrogant, looking directly at the Knicks. In the end, the Knicks fled. While organizing the German residents to clean up the concentration camp, Knicks saw the woman in red again and looked at each other again. Finally, she lowered her head. This detail is undoubtedly a bit too deliberate, but the impression it gives is indeed quite deep.

For me, the most shocking thing about this episode is the discovery of the concentration camp. If "Life is Beautiful" and "Sindler's List" are still shining with the brilliance of people, but one is brighter and the other is darker, the concentration camps in "Brothers" are just the most primitive display-human life and dignity can originally be Become so humble.

The success of the Brothers Company lies in these two points-the restoration of the truth of the war scenes and the meticulous creation of the characters

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Extended Reading
  • Kenyon 2021-10-20 19:00:25

    Look at how people's war movies are made!!

  • Myrtice 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The same tone as Rescuing Private Ryan reflects the true cruelty of war. The reappearance of the concentration camp scene in Schindler's list in episode 9 is shocking and full of reflections on World War II. At the end of World War II, all the soldiers will go home but they can’t forget the brotherhood, which is touching.

Band of Brothers quotes

  • Richard Winters: [about Nixon's drinking] Nix, what are you going to do in battle?

    Cpt. Nixon: Oh, I have every confidence in my scrounging abilities, and I have a case of Vat 69 hidden in your footlocker.

    Richard Winters: [chuckles, thinks it's a joke. Pauses, realizes that he's not kidding] Really?

    Cpt. Nixon: Oh, yeah.

  • David Webster: "They got me". You believe that? You believe I said that?