The cruelty of war has changed people who were originally pure and kind. From the protagonist to the supporting role, the personality of each soldier is almost memorable in a few shots. It's an engaging film, as Spielberg puts it - "It makes one feel like one has actually been to Vietnam and never wants to go again." Indeed, Dunk Reese Taylor set foot on Vietnamese soil and watched the body bag load in front of me into the helicopter I had just stepped off from, and I felt like I stepped into a movie myself, walking through the rainforest with my rifle and bag, wading across the river, Passing through dangerous villages, gasping in ambushes and encounters, looking for cover...I can't help but think about the meaning of war and life like those soldiers.
Even when my mind was on the plane with Chris Taylor's scarred body, watching the battlefield in the mountains and forests leave under the setting sun, I couldn't help sighing and weeping like him, a feeling of relief accompanied by loss and pain, Rising slowly in the tragic ending song.
The turning point in the film: when the wounded Ilya ran helplessly towards the helicopter in the sky in the jungle, was shot, and fell slowly in slow motion. His gesture of raising his hands to the sky has become a classic in war movies.
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