"The Battle of Midway" can't please the straight man who has converted to refuge like me for many years, is a fan of World War II, and a fan of naval warfare, exposing a type of shortcoming of directors like Roland Emmerich under the current Hollywood system. : They don’t seem to be able to take a panoramic view of the epic of war.
To put it bluntly, when I was a kid, my experience of watching "The Final Battle" was better than this one.
Why?
Because under the unprecedented scale of large-scale wars like World War II, it is the top-level decision that really makes people excited, not a group of sea cowboys.
Hollywood is too obsessed with the narrative paradigm of personal heroism that she is good at, and she can't jump out of it at all.
Unlike movies such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Blood Battle of Hacksaw Ridge" that observe war from a personal perspective, "The Battle of Midway" is obviously ambition to be a textbook level that is loyal to historical details and has a panoramic grand narrative. Of war films. However, the way the characters are created is still an outdated arc-light routine: the sting-head pilots landed exactly the same way one after the other; the intelligence officials led the deciphering team from the earliest self-denial to the end to accurately predict; the carrier-based pilots and comrades looked at each other from the beginning. The harmonious understanding that is not pleasing to the eye to the end... is full of boring routines, each line seems to be able to make a passing movie, but together it becomes an epic disaster. Because when the audience hopes to see that the screenwriter has more ability to combine the two narrative perspectives of personal and historical diametrically opposed into one, the film unconvincedly jumps back and forth in several story lines repeatedly, interspersed with a large number of similar sneak attacks. Branch lines such as Pearl Harbor and the Tokyo Bombing revealed a complete loss of control over the overall rhythm of the film.
Fans of World War II know that from Pearl Harbor to Midway Island, there is a complete logical chain of historical development. There are mutual trials, games, and moves between the United States and Japan, but this film stops at showing events rather than connections between events. The audience could only pitifully guess how time passed based on the number of times the pilot went home.
What is the relationship between Pearl Harbor and the main story line? What does the Doolittle air raid on Tokyo have to do with the main line of the story? If you want to start from the logic of war wrestling, that's okay, but please don't put so many pens and inks on the characters who are passing by. When the audience just wants to project their emotions on them, you let them disappear again. Some bean friends get a place: like a man who changes posture as soon as you feel it.
If you want to talk about history, just talk about big people and big events. If you want to talk about heroism, then tell the little stories well. You want to occupy both seats, but your butt is not that big, and after all, it has become a big difference.
From the perspective of history fans, what should be the most inscribed in "The Battle of Midway" is the silly jokes made by history when the two sides engaged in a strategic decisive battle on Midway. The movie does show a series of coincidences caused by the Nautilus, but can you make the coincidence an interesting episode in the story of personal heroism, can you show that this is the weight of the two naval powers betting on the national fortune?
To be honest, I didn't make it clear at all. I was even more excited when I read the entry "Naval Battle of Midway" on Baidu Encyclopedia.
In the final analysis, the emotional energy that the audience can mobilize when watching a movie is limited. When these emotions were invested by him in "Can the protagonist throw the bomb accurately", unfortunately, there is no remaining ability to feel the true weight of this great battle.
Roland Emmerich, you photographed the battle as a battle and served.
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