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Jazmin 2021-12-31 08:02:57

A pure man film made by a female director.
A pure Soviet film with English dialogues made in Hollywood.
Military movies based on facts during the Cold War were mostly based on this routine. Because the United States and the Soviet Union did not fight directly at the time in history, the ending is certain when watching this kind of film. At the beginning, the arms race must be in full swing and a nuclear war is about to start. Both sides are waiting for an appropriate time, and then give themselves a reasonable excuse to go to war under the guise of justice. But both sides tried their best to refrain from giving each other such excuses. Someone must have sacrificed for this in the process.
The filmmakers rehearsed these decrypted stories. Different directors must have different tastes. If you watch Kathryn's "The Hurt Locker", it is not difficult to understand that she had a similar purpose when filming k19. Human nature is supreme.

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Extended Reading
  • Shannon 2022-04-23 07:02:44

    The driving force behind the film is the tension between life and death on the one hand, and how an American director portrays a group of Soviet fighters on the other. It turns out that Catherine Bigelow's lens has no ideology left or right, only real men.

  • Jermain 2022-04-21 09:02:39

    When Americans photograph the Soviet submarine disaster, they always feel like they are fighting against a wall. The overall ideology is fairly restrained, but with different positions, ridicule is inevitable. However, it is too sensational to attribute the sacrifice to the individual, the loftiness of individual life and the brotherhood of helping each other in the same boat. At that time, I believed that the will of the state was still belief to a certain extent, and it was unrealistic to completely strip it away.

K-19: The Widowmaker quotes

  • Capt. Mikhail Polenin: They'll send you to the Gulag, like your father.

    Captain Alexei Vostrikov: Well, it's a family tradition, isn't it?

  • Captain Alexei Vostrikov: How bad is it?

    Vadim Radtchenko: The leak is in the sealed area. There's no way to get to it. The temperature will keep rising 'til it reaches 1,000 degrees, and...

    Captain Alexei Vostrikov: And? And WHAT?

    Vadim Radtchenko: No one knows.