In my eyes, "Assembly" has always been a war-themed movie second only to "Devils Are Coming".
In 2006, Feng Xiaogang began to transform. In his own words, it was "reverse business". Over the past few years, the praise and criticism have been mixed, but "literary" has always been the core of Feng Xiaogang's firm grasp. In the past, the themes of the Anti-Japanese War in China were often pursued with grand narratives that exaggerated national sentiments (such as "On the Taihang Mountains", "Tokyo Trial") or collective expectations underpinned by revolutionary optimism (such as "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Raise Your Hands"). Resonance, the cruelty of war itself is either deceived by comedy, or sublimated by typical sacrifice. All of them lack an invisible power to settle down from national sentiments and reflect on people and war. As for "Assembly", it has to be said that screenwriter Liu Heng does have a deeper thought, that is, he cares about the "individual human being", including simple animal instincts, conflicts between private emotions and military discipline, and Identity-seeking issues in national sensibilities. In the film, "Blowing the trumpet" becomes the key clue that connects the whole film, because blowing the trumpet means retreat, and retreat means survival, which is only related to human instinct. But on the other hand, if you choose to retreat without blowing the trumpet, it means that the soldier will be transformed into a deserter on the battlefield, although Gu Zidi persuaded Wang Jincun when he said, "When you pee, you pee, and even the gods will have to use the grenade under the crotch. pissed", but it is fundamentally a betrayal of military discipline, and it will also bear a lifetime of infamy.
The expectations of the soldiers of Jiulian for the "Assembly" and the deafness of Gu Zidi fully demonstrated the interdependent but contradictory relationship between "survival", "identity" and "discipline", which also made Gu Zidi know in the latter part of the film. Emotional tension after the truth, private emotions appear so weak in the face of "righteousness", but this shows how difficult it was for the martyrs to exchange peace in this world until the end. When all the members of the Jiulian Company were posthumously recognized as martyrs, national emotions and awakened private The memory has reached a high degree of unity, which is not only the honor of martyrdom, but also the dignity of life.
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