It’s been a long time since I saw such an exciting movie

Rogelio 2021-12-26 08:01:08

A particularly great film, simple, direct, calm, and without pretentious publicity and thinking about the national spirit. The film
does not have those weakly boasting heroism, let
alone the recent popular "humanity" performance. It is truly naked. cruel, reflects the attitude against the power of
history is difficult to use "just" to speech, on behalf of poor and weak but also might not be able to call and get justice, but there is no historical consciousness speech, only low-level sensational, not to mention the commercial motives
reading I am really ashamed of our mentally retarded blockbusters,
but those who want to watch big war scenes will be disappointed and
think about it carefully. This director is indeed very capable and can show such a complicated and entangled historical period through the encounters of a pair of brothers. If you lose control a little, you will fall into the trap of sensationalism and overly subjective stance.
But there should still be a distance between him and the truly top masters. In terms of the concept of the story, in the end, the elder brother shot the younger brother, and the previous younger brother shot the partner who grew up with him. The correspondence between these two paragraphs is a metaphor for the "brothers' fretting" in the Irish Civil War. The traces of this plot arrangement are heavy and deliberate.

After chatting with my friends about this film, I realized that what moved me the most was the attitude of sacrificing for the principles and beliefs in my heart. Even if this principle becomes trivial or even ridiculous after the circumstances pass, there is still such a desperate attitude. the spirit of.

In contrast, the current Chinese are completely different.

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  • Hosea 2022-03-22 09:02:09

    The world is always full of compromises and frauds in the name of "freedom", and true freedom comes from independent thinking within the heart

  • Carmelo 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Medical student-executioner-executed/December 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty bounded by the Anglo-Irish treaty, 26 counties in southern Ireland became a free state within the British Empire according to the "Irish Self-Government Act", allegiance to the King of England; the six northern counties were still under British rule/ The civil war ended in 1923, and the republicans were defeated; in 1949, the United Kingdom recognized the independence of Ireland; in 2005, Sinn Fein, the political organization of the Northern Irish Republican Army, announced that it would lay down its arms, and Ireland would forever lose the six northern counties.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley quotes

  • Damien: It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for.

  • Finbar: [the IRA have just gunned down several Black and Tans] Mercenaries! That were paid to come over here to make us crawl, and to wipe us out. We've just sent a message to the British cabinet that will echo and reverbarate around the world! If they bring their savagery over here, we will meet it with a savagery of our own!