The third episode of "Band of Brothers" is really great, beyond words to describe, the overall structure, the presentation of the war scenes and the portrayal of the characters can be said to be at the film level.
The portrayal of the role of Albert Blithe is really impressive. Those who have seen it will not forget that this ordinary American soldier with pale eyes and eyes in the camera is not brave, he is often confused and shrinking, and he is hysterical with fear. He told the superior that he did not go to find the troops after he landed because he was afraid.
When confronted with the Germans, he hid in a bomb crater and was mad with fear. Winters kept encouraging him to stand up and fight, perhaps because insane fear had in the end, as Speirs put it, thought of himself as a dead man, he finally took up the gun and shot a German as the Germans fled in a hurry Soldier.
The most exciting scene is when he goes to the body of the German soldier and sees that there is an edelweiss on the mountain on the man's chest. Many elite Wehrmacht Gebirgsjager soldiers who fought in the mountains had edelweiss on their collars, which symbolized "courage" and indomitable spirit. The moment Blithe put the little white flower on his chest, he truly became a spiritual soldier. And regardless of victory or defeat, the spirit of the hero is the same. At this moment, he and the Germans who were killed by him are no different.
The subtlety of this episode is that it's either patriotism or heroism, it's war and people in war.
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