By Ai Chen
After finishing "Eight Hundred", I felt quite impressed. The war that took place on the banks of the Suzhou River has infected many audiences because of the tragic and tragic scenes brought by the realistic scenes; but I think it is more worth chewing on the people in the movie, who came from the background of the war and turmoil. All beings.
Fighters: 16 stragglers and more than 400 officers and soldiers
Yangguai played by Wang Qianyuan, Lao Abacus played by Zhang Yi, Lao Tie played by Jiang Wu, Dragon Boat Festival played by Ou Hao, Xiao Hubei played by Zhang Junyi... A group of veterans and recruits were disturbed by the Japanese army as soon as they arrived in Shanghai and their heels were unstable. After wandering around, we finally came to the Sixing Warehouse. The setting of this plot, on the one hand, allows the audience to enter this history from their point of view; on the other hand, it also reflects the fact that the military heart was broken at that time, and there was no intention or power to fight: the recruits , the old abacus is calculated, the Dragon Boat Festival is farming, and Xiaohubei is only 13 years old. These people may have never touched a gun, let alone murder with a gun; among the veterans, the old Tie who boasted that he had been with Dashuai Zhang never dared to shoot. , he will hide in every battle, and become a melon, only sheep can't shake his gun or mess up, and he still looks like a soldier.
Just a group of people put together like this, untrained and unprepared, do you think they are here to fight? You say they can fight a war? "Come to Shanghai to see", "I thought it was to clean up the battlefield", "We want to take a photo together", maybe this is what they really thought. It's just that the bustling big city that they wanted to see in their hearts has long since become a ruin like hell, and they have become lambs to be slaughtered on the ruins. The fear in their hearts will inevitably erupt, so they try their best to escape, thinking about it. To live.
And what about the officers and soldiers who stayed at the Sixing Warehouse? "Defend the last position in Shanghai", this is the order they received. It is a battle that they know will die. The military order is like a mountain, and the reality is even more cruel. The Sixing Warehouse faces three enemies. There are planes in the sky, heavy artillery on the ground, and rivers. There is also the bombardment of the fleet, with the strength of 400 people, against several times the Japanese army, other than life and death, is there any other choice?
Then there were the bloody battles of the next four days and four nights: in the warehouse, Chen Shusheng was strapped with explosives, took the lead and jumped, leaving only the blood letter of "Sacrifice your life, your child will do what you want", and his comrades behind him shouted his name loudly. Surname, every cry is saying that they have come to this world; on the roof, all the soldiers are impassioned, vowing to express their attitude to the Japanese army and the world; and at midnight when they were ordered to retreat, facing the fire on all sides, everyone again It is without turning back, without looking back, and moving forward.
What impressed me the most was Soldier September. He gave Xiaohubei food, saying that it was something from the concession side and had a long body; he said to Xiaohubei, "You can make up for it when I die," in such an understated tone, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him. related things; he feeds the horses, proudly saying that the dozens of sheep he has raised obey him. In fact, how old is he older than Xiao Hubei? It's just a child, but like a veteran with hundreds of battles, he used his life to bring Xiao Hubei to grow up.
It was a group of people who looked at death like this, with their backs to the Sixing Warehouse, resisting the guns and guns of the Japanese army with their flesh and blood, and together with this reinforced concrete building, they wrote the immortal reputation of "Eight Hundred Heroes".
Onlookers and Participants: Chinese People in the Concession
When the gunfire of the Sixing Warehouse was incessant, the war was incessant, and it was like hell, the concession on the other side of the Suzhou River was still resplendent, singing and dancing peacefully, like a paradise.
For refugees and residents of the settlement, no matter whether they fight or not, those who should be in business should continue to do business, "as long as they can continue to sell things"; those who should live will continue to live, playing mahjong, scolding their husbands, and talking to their upstairs neighbors because of water leakage Questions quarrel; how about the four-line warehouse, it seems to be no different from other things in life. In the words of the foreign reporter in the film, "it seems that this war has nothing to do with them". In their eyes, it seems to reveal the certainty that "foreigners are protecting us".
As the battle continued, these people finally began to wake up. It was those who fought in the Four Elements Warehouse, and it was "eight hundred strong men protecting us". When they saw the flag raised on the roof, they burst into tears and paid their respects. So the people who were watching the excitement also began to focus on the battlefield, and participated in the battle, doing what they could. They ran to tell each other, raised donations, exchanged performances for rewards, beat drums and cheered, and even ignored stray bullets, applauded and shouted on the south bank of the Suzhou River, reminding the Chinese army to pay attention to the Japanese attack route.
From watching the play, to watching the battle, to shouting, this is the change of these onlookers in four days and four nights, and it is also the fighting spirit and dignity that the "eight hundred heroes" want to awaken with their flesh and blood. "If everyone in the country is like this, how dare the Japanese pirates!"
The Girl Scout Yang Huimin, played by Tang Yixin, was a participant in this war from the very beginning, from distributing relief supplies to refugees, to being felt by the soldiers on the other side, raising donations to save people; Crossing the Suzhou River, sending the flag to the guards and soldiers, always standing firm and full of enthusiasm. There is also the knife of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce. Although there are only a few shots, it is full of blood and courage. From closing the door and refusing refugees to enter the door, wanting to stay out of the matter; to being touched by the soldiers on the other side, so he salutes the portrait, stabs a knife, volunteers, and rushes to cross the bridge, whether it is Jianghu Qi or loyalty, there is no shortage of spirit.
What makes people sigh is the three students who came to join the army with their blood boiling, they have no blood, but they are ideal and blind. It's just that the battle inspires high enthusiasm, but when he is in the battle and faces life and death, he shrinks back timidly. Yes, they did not become the "heroes" they thought in their hearts, just because they did not see the real cruelty of war.
Witnesses and Documenters: Foreign Journalists in Cafes
"Across the Suzhou River, opposite the warehouse is the concession, so there is a strange landscape on the Suzhou River that has never been seen before in the history of the war between China and foreign countries. British and American journalists in the concession are sitting in the cafe by the river, relaxing on the side. I drank coffee while watching the fierce fighting between the Chinese and Japanese armies." (Note: Shanghai documentary "Life and Death - 1937 Songhu War of Resistance")
Compared with refugees and residents of the settlement, those foreign journalists in the settlement are more pure witnesses and recorders. The war that took place in the Sixing Warehouse, through their eyes, became a battle watched by the whole world. How unimaginable this is! However, this is the main purpose of this battle. The incompetent and corrupt Kuomintang is betting on the lives of soldiers, exchanging blood for sympathy, and trying to hope for the help of Western countries in order to obtain international mediation. How outrageous is this kind of stupid flattery!
Although the brutality of the Battle of the Four Elements and the bravery of the soldiers really exceeded the imagination of the foreign journalists, it also aroused the part of humanity in their hearts, and they would show respect to the soldiers when they were in love, admiring them that they would rather die than give in But more often, they still treat this absurd blood and tears show with cold eyes, gamble on the situation of the battle, make jokes about human lives, and when they know that there is a lot of food, ambulance supplies and ammunition in the Sixing warehouse, they sarcastically say, " This seems to make the battle fairer"; and sitting high on the airship, commenting on the blood and sacrifice below, let them compose a dark war elegy.
Two banks of a river, hell and heaven; four days and four nights, all living beings. Whether it is a coward or a hero, a success or a benevolence, people are like ants and life like a mustard, they have become a footnote to the times of sorrow; and those bravery to kill the enemy, protect the country and die in battle, those tragic and solemn sacrifices and indomitable progress, And the indifference and indignation of scrambling and looking up at each other, is it not the helplessness and sadness of the little people who are swept up by the times.
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