Said that this film reflects the cruel humanity in the war. I don't take it seriously. War is a background and a cover. In fact, this is the real world that boys face. Crisis, premature contact with sex and weapons, kindness being victimized, weak being bullied, they must adapt to everything as quickly as possible, face everything calmly, and can’t be old-fashioned. Be your own child. This is a forest where the weak and the strong eat the strong, score the enemy and friends, brave and fearless.
Therefore, this film is a movie that can be seen by boys. But when can I show it to my child? I can't tell you how old can you understand the content of the movie? This question is like when a child becomes an adult, parents can never tell. The moment you thought was just what you thought. Although the child's growth is not necessarily in the baptism of iron and blood, it must experience something.
Carlos, the little boy in the film, came to the orphanage alone. Although he cried secretly in the bed all night, his natural optimism and strongness, as well as his kindness towards others, made him a friend and even his ally. Of course, this enemy is not the real devil, but another orphan with a kind-hearted nature. The real devil in the film is the adult orphan. It is not that the war has wiped out his humanity, because other orphans in the same situation, and even the accomplices he called to grab the gold, are not as frantic as he is. He is the representative of the darkest part of human nature: He regards other people as a rag, standing on the opposite side of everyone. When he was finally beaten by a few children and put to death, I believe most of the audience would clap and applaud. It's been a long time since I saw such a hateful person.
But what if he died? After this battle, the children had to grow up and had to face the ugliness of this world, and hatred had already planted the seeds in their hearts. One day they will grow up, and they will also face the vigorous lust and the material desire to grab wealth. Will they let their desires overflow, or can they control their inner demons? As orphans, they lack more guidance and company. Maybe one day, they will be like the grown-up orphan, tearing down the photos of their parents and their babies, but they don’t hesitate to lift a sharp blade to others. , Just like Yanshou killed the prison guards.
In the process of watching movies, I always have an unrealistic and ridiculous idea: how cute these children are, how good they would be if they never grew up. The plot development of the movie gave me a heavy blow to this ridiculous idea. It is that some children will never grow up. In addition to Santi, there are also those children who died in the explosion. They will turn into souls with hatred forever, because some people make them never grow up. In the space of another dimension, their images are terrible, making people scream, and they are completely devoid of cute images.
Children will grow up, and the world will teach them: The sunshine of childhood is so short, and the heavy rain and fighters above the head are real life.
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