It is said that after "Saving Private Ryan", no one dared to make a movie about World War II.
It is like a sharp scalpel, dissecting the flesh and bones of the giant monster "War", trying to extract its soul from the blood and blood.
It is again like an epic soaked in blood and tears, describing the cruelty of war and the light of humanity flowing out of the cruel gap.
Every time I watch this movie, I always think of Du Fu, isn't it weird? What is the connection between a Chinese poet more than a thousand years ago and a movie about World War II?
Don't get me wrong, there is no crossing here. I just think the way the director Steven Spielberg tells the story is very similar to Du Fu's poetry.
Du Fu's poems are called "epic". He wrote about the suffering that the war brought to the common people. He always started from a person and a family, and wrote about their experiences and their inner sorrows and pains.
Even if we read it more than a thousand years later, it is no longer as cold as the historical events and historical figures recorded in the history books, as if the people in the poem are Zhang San from the next door and Li Si from the neighboring village. fresh.
The same is true of "Saving Private Ryan". It is about war. The main line of the story is to save a private named Ryan and bring him home.
At the beginning of the movie, the battle of Omaha Beach can no longer be described as "tragic", it is hell, it is hell! The rattling machine guns and shells are the life-harvesting machines of the god of death. They do not distinguish between right and wrong, and they only open the gates of hell and greedily suck the fresh life.
Someone dragged the mutilated body to continue the fight.
Some died silently, and some shouted "Mom" before dying.
There are also people who survived the catastrophe and cried bitterly.
In this movie, even if you are used to seeing life and death, even in the name of justice, fighting for noble freedom, weakness is not shameful.
Colonel Miller, played by Tom Hanks, just came down from the battlefield of Omaha, the hell on earth, and received a new task to organize an eight-person team to save Private Ryan.
The reason is that all three of Ryan's older brothers died in battle, and if he is gone, then his mother will lose all her sons and be helpless.
Paratrooper Ryan was mistakenly thrown behind enemy lines, and Colonel Miller's rescue team had to cross the war zone and go behind enemy lines. Along the way, there were ambushes and casualties, and they began to wonder if it was worth risking the lives of eight to rescue one person.
Who should live more than who?
It's ridiculous, but also tender. A tenderness to Ryan's mother and absurdity to other people. In fact, even war is absurd, it should not happen! !
In the movie, it seems that every unfortunate person who died, as long as he can speak, is shouting "Mom" and "Mom, I want to go home."
Probably only the warm name of "Mama" can support them against the pain of death's scythe cutting their souls from their bodies.
When there is the constant sacrifice of brothers, when death is close at hand, "saving Ryan" does not seem to be the reason for them to persist in fighting, but "going home" can.
Colonel Miller said, I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care, he means nothing to me, it's just a name, but finding him and sending him home would qualify me to go back to my wife, I will accept this task.
They are eager to go home, but they are never deserters. They are a group of hard-hearted men with soft feelings.
Fortunately, Ryan, whom they worked so hard to find, was also a "Lengtou soldier" who was unwilling to abandon his comrades and retreat alone. A good guy "worthy of their saving" as Miller and the others expected.
They decided to stay and guard the bridge with Ryan, guarding a possibility of victory, "We stay and fight for the right to go home together."
The last thing Colonel Miller said to Ryan was "Don't let it go!"
Don't fail our search, don't fail the time we live.
Throughout his life, Ryan has lived up to Miller's expectations of him, living a good life and being a good person.
When the white-haired and staggering old Ryan said to Miller's tombstone with tears and tears, when he lived up to his life, I understood the meaning of those who sacrificed their lives to protect their homes.
The classics never go out of style, the classics live on forever.
These are the things that touched me the most about this movie.
When I saw Ryan's mother slump to the ground hearing the news of the deaths of her three sons, I felt a cloud of air rise in my chest, and it was uncomfortably stuck.
May there be no more wars in the world.
I hope that every mother can wait for the child to come home, and every wife can wait for the husband to come home.
Maybe God doesn't distinguish between enemy and me, only children who want to go home.
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