Cherish the present

Novella 2022-04-21 09:03:04

This should be a documentary. It perfectly restores World War I, a war full of interests. When the German Junker nobles were dissatisfied with their existing interests, the bourgeois chaebols of Britain and France wanted to protect their original interests, and then War broke out.

The saddest thing is the dead and wounded Soldier. As dictated in the movie, they don't even know what they are fighting for.

Perhaps only people who have experienced war can understand its cruelty and how hard-won peace is. We can only covet one-sided wars through screen books.

Cherish the moment, we should be grateful that we can watch football games, drink beer...and everything in peacetime.

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  • Jamison 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Good to be good, but due to the limitation of materials, this anonymous conversation of one person and one sentence can reproduce the perspective of a soldier in a broad sense, but at the same time, it also loses the more powerful effect that one or two specific narrators can bring. Good empathy, and somewhat fragmented.

  • Ara 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    #HKIFF43#Why are they not getting old anymore? On the one hand, their youth was fixed a hundred years ago; on the other hand, the frame changed from narrow to wide, from black and white to color, and the 3D depth of field grew from nothing—a great spiritual conjuration accompanied by a sense of cinematic ritual! The image gives them a chance to be reborn, and another chance to die in the time and space of the movie, where life and death coexist as true and false. But when the camera is close to them, even if it is a fake, the smile is real, and the capture is eternal.

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They Shall Not Grow Old quotes

  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.