Extended Reading
  • Dejuan 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    man is the hostage of history

    This movie is recognized as Melville's masterpiece, and it's the third Melville movie I've seen. After reading it, I think this film can definitely be regarded as a model of light weight. Melville calmly painted the credible images of a group of resistance fighters in an almost line drawing style,...

  • Elta 2022-03-21 09:03:26

    real third party

    Like other creations, it is difficult not to presume a position, even if it is vague, it will eventually reveal itself.
    The most valuable part of this film lies in the complete set of bystander characters, just depicting without sublimation, telling you the overwhelming human nature, and also...

  • Rosemarie 2022-03-24 09:03:48

    The complete freedom of individual action that any reckless man would vehemently defend, according to his own consciousness, has been denied by historians and thinkers of all times, and even by some of the more profound religious teachings, This inescapable fate comes from the hell of the structure, the abyss of the organization, and the meaninglessness of the individual turns into a trembling loneliness in the bleak poetry. Melville's complete and solitary control remains to be seen.

  • Michaela 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    quiet and restrained

Army of Shadows quotes

  • Philippe Gerbier: See you later, Comrade.

    Legrain: ...You're a communist?

    Philippe Gerbier: No. But I can still have comrades.

  • Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque': Still thinking about the others?

    [referring to the resistance fighters, who, like him, were targets in the German shooting gallery]

    Philippe Gerbier: No, I was thinking of the officer who was sure I'd run too. Like a scared rabbit...