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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