At first, I tried to use the poor film criticism knowledge I learned in college to calmly analyze its own technicality, and even laugh at its commercialization and stereotypes, but in the end, I was still moved by the humanity and persistence that the film gave me.
Indeed, as many netizens have said, "Battle of Los Angeles" is the nth time aliens invade the earth and the nth time that Americans save the world. The story is simple and the plot is cliché. In fact, as far as "Luo" is concerned, there is almost no plot at all, let alone twists and turns. It's just a war, a war of unbalanced power, with bombardments and gunshots pounding your heart and stimulating your senses. The endless sound effects and the pictures that switch back and forth from different perspectives make you feel that it is a blockbuster.
And it's successful because of its cookie-cutter plot, it's because you can imagine its ending, so once you add a little softness to that cookie-cutter, even for a few seconds, you can amplify it , and then moved by it. Because at this time you are sitting in a dark theater, facing all kinds of devastating casualties, and the deafening bombing sounds in your ears, maybe at this moment, what you are waiting for is just a kind of moving, which can soften the metal, mechanical, Touched by ruins.
The civilian father told the staff sergeant before he died, "My son was an optimistic child, and when the war broke out, he asked me why we couldn't have a good talk with these aliens? Maybe they'd like to be friends with us. ?" This sentence seems to be a blooming white flower in a barren ruin, it lights up the gray tone of the whole picture, making people shed tears and at the same time, the corners of their mouths are slightly upturned. This is inspiration. It turns out that war will have another possibility in the eyes of children, and this possibility is also the deep desire of every soldier who has experienced life and death.
Also, at the end of the film, when the soldiers finally blew up the control center of the alien weapon after several twists and turns, I slowly let go of my dangling heart. I thought the end of the film was the cheers of the soldiers and heroism once again. 's praise. On the contrary, the ending is that those soldiers who have lived and died many times and are full of glory silently pick up their weapons and go back to battle. This is an ending that rarely appeared in previous films. The back of them fighting again is shocking. It turns out that the film has quietly put the words persistence, humanity, and dedication on these young and resolute faces. Their beliefs have grown stronger in this unbalanced battle, and it is in this imbalance that we see persistence, no despair, and no giving up, and we see new ideas in the sameness.
"Battle of Los Angeles", we need to watch it with a normal heart. We can't force the technical content of the nth invasion. We are just watching a war, a war with shocking pictures and sounds, a war full of A war of humanity and love, a war of sacrifice and perseverance.
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