Live the promise with life

Tamara 2022-01-01 08:02:08

This World War II blockbuster directed by Wu Yusen is undoubtedly full of his violent aesthetics again-there are explosions and flesh and blood everywhere. Although I believe the real Saipan battle is more cruel, it is Nicholas that strikes my heart- Joe Anderson, a naval officer played by Cage. He rushed forward on the battlefield, but he was usually indifferent. He went his own way and went his own way. Alcohol accompanies him almost all of his amateur life-living in a real illusory world, lonely, perverse, like a leaf that withers at any time, life is sinking. In the past cruel battles, I can't bear to look back but linger, so that I have hallucinations in the path of the grave.
Strictly speaking, this film is not very good, but Cage's role impressed me. There is always such a kind of man who is silent on his mission, wants to exile himself from the emptiness and pain of life, but finally fulfills his promise with his life. This may be their best ending. Cage always seems to be a type of Hollywood men: bald head, drunk eyes from time to time scorching light; on the one hand, life is sinking, decadent, confused, and spiritually different; on the other hand, he is more skilled and brave. Zall, invincible. Whether it is a liar or a soldier, he represents a tendency of men: the beauty of decadence. Think about us men, how many of us walked all the way not so swayingly.

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Windtalkers quotes

  • [after Joe takes Yazi's food]

    Charlie Whitehorse: How's your white man?

    Ben Yahzee: Hungry.

  • Ben Yahzee: I'm Ben Yahzee, I guess the corps paired us up, may I join you?

    Joe Enders: You're blocking my view.

    Ben Yahzee: Sorry.

    [about the food]

    Ben Yahzee: What do they call this crap anyway?

    Joe Enders: Marines call it chow.

    Ben Yahzee: Well there is a propaganda effort there.

    Ben Yahzee: [he accidentally knocks over his cup of coffee] Shit, sorry, you could have mine.

    [he then accidentally spills the coffe all over his food]

    Joe Enders: What did you say your name was again?

    Ben Yahzee: Ben Yahzee.

    [Enders gives him his food which has been ruined and takes his food]

    Charlie Whitehorse: [in Navajo] How is your white man?

    Ben Yahzee: Hungry.