I watched the 209-minute director's cut version, and there was a director's uncut version that I couldn't find for 5 hours. The style of the movie is more documentary, and the first impression after watching it is that this submarine is out of luck. It was besieged by destroyers twice and bombed by dozens of depth charges. He was directly hit by an anti-submarine attack aircraft in the Gulf of Gibraltar, shelled by a destroyer, flooded the torpedo tube, ruptured the battery, and suffered from a large amount of oxygen deficiency in the boat. base.
In a real war any one of them would be enough to kill a submarine. So although the movie seems to be a documentary genre, it is not a real war. This is the director's mercy. If the director shoots a real war, then the movie will end very quickly, and there will be no drama to play. For the crew of the shipwreck, the most desperate thing is to drown and die after seeing the shore, which is doubly miserable. For submariners, being able to die on the water is a great blessing. Because most of the time, they have to sink to the bottom with the submarine. World War II was only in Germany, with a total of 40,000 submariners serving and 30,000 killed. Most of them had such a fate. War is a hundred times more brutal than it is in the movies. The cabin of the submarine in the film is like the carriage of the Spring Festival, crowded, dirty, stuffy, sweaty and pungent. No wonder the submariners hoped to fire off the torpedoes as soon as possible and return to the port for supplies. It's a pity that you will encounter British merchant ships when you run out torpedoes, and destroyers when you encounter British merchant ships. Destroyers are the nemesis of submarines. Keep diving, diving. For submariners, this is the most tormenting few hours underwater to avoid bombs, and they can die at any time. First the sound of the propellers getting closer, then the ticking sonar, then the thump of a depth charge, and finally the roar of an explosion. I don't know which one will kill the submarine. One went away, and soon another came. It will be quiet for a while, who knows if the destroyer is waiting on the sea. Death is not scary, what is scary is the process of waiting for death and being helpless. No one can stand this kind of torture again and again. The chief engineer who served 9 submarines in the movie almost collapsed. The tense and depressing atmosphere created by the director is outstanding among all the films I have seen. My heart has been tense for more than three hours, and the sense of substitution is very strong.
As for dozens of people crammed into the same cabin as the Spring Festival carriage, two people share a bed, and dozens of people use the same bathroom. They don’t take a bath for more than a month. Fourteen hours of listening to deafening machine sounds, no sun for dozens of days, often not being able to go to the deck for several days to breathe fresh air, eating bread covered with penicillium, unshaved pork, and so on and so on. Compared with sinking to the bottom at any time, these are nothing.
In war, it is not only submarine soldiers whose lives are worthless. German infantrymen were frozen to death, pilots and planes were blown to pieces, and tank soldiers died in tin cans. When the Führer encouraged the Germans to be honorable, proud and willing to die for the motherland, many people did not know what it meant. The chief engineer misses his sick wife, and Xiaobing misses his French girlfriend and the child in her womb. People are emotional. Soldiers are eager to end the war. Do they regret that they chose the head of state back then?
It was the same for everyone in every country in the war, the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, and our country. War is neither great nor romantic at all.
The way of expression in the film is actually very simple. Almost all the scenes are in a small boat. The director uses a very simple and effective method to narrate. One is contrast, the other is repeated emphasis. Through different time, different character behaviors, to describe their growth and development. Repeat the dialogue from the previous scene to reiterate the character's character and motivation. The first mate in the film is an interesting character. He is a returnee and a hot-blooded Nazi youth. He is meticulous in his work. The director uses four meals to show the difference between this character and other characters on the boat. What's interesting is that this character is unpleasant in itself, often contempt for others or a murderous Nazi, but he participates in three rescue episodes without fail, the first is the one when Pagham slipped off the deck. , the first mate helped lift him to a plane in the control room, soaking his clothes; the second time was to cooperate with the doctor to save the seriously injured pilot; the last time was to hide in the bunker after the air raid, he tried When he stopped the bleeding for the sailor who was hit by the shrapnel, and another batch of bombs fell, leaving everyone covered in ashes, he was the one behind the wounded. This character is like a hot-blooded young man who was brainwashed by the Nazis in World War II.
There are not many submarine movies, and there is also a hunt for u571, but it pales in comparison with this one. War has no honor, let us cherish the beauty of peace.
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