It's not just Pete's performance that should be questioned

Darion 2022-01-07 15:53:35

The reason for the four stars is that as the initiator of the war in many parts of the world, the United States has always had works with anti-war themes. It dared to question its own ZF's intentions and dared to mock the self-righteousness and stretchedness of ZF's behavior.

The work itself is also 3 stars, and Pete's poor interpretation of the protagonist's image reduces the value to 2.5 stars. Always keeping the five fingers and steps with high and low eyebrows, large varicose nostrils, and unimaginable running posture, I personally feel that real characters are far from being so ridiculous in appearance, and making fun of a person so obvious in appearance seems a bit superficial.

As a long narration reporter Sean himself has a few very remarkable passages, to the effect:

"This group of people probably thinks they are the most important group of people in the world, doing the most important job in the world."

"I used to think that people have gray hair because of the pressure of their work and the decisions they need to make under pressure; now I think that their hair is graying because of their bones and feel that the highlight moments in their lives are not what they have always hoped for. Then the moment of shining begins, that is the moment when reality is parachuted in front of ideals. But the difference between a faithful person like General Glen and others is that they have the ability to completely isolate reality from their own imagination."

Many people are like this.

How to objectively judge and define one's own beliefs—not only beliefs in the literal sense, but also beliefs in the judgment of the entire world and the entire human group and their interests as a tiny individual—is never able to seek common ground Yes, as for reserving differences, everyone is looking for different channels to express their aspirations and trying to prove that their beliefs are "correct." General Glen’s appeal is through war. His job is to manage war. The tome he read before going to bed is called "The Secrets and Magic of Modern Management". He is a good man in nature. His starting point is the familiar "I am for your good." He took the army to Afghanistan, warned his subordinates not to shoot indiscriminately, conscripted locals for training, and told the locals "We did this so that you have the ability to defend yourself after we leave." The local people were also speechless. After a long debate, there was only one sentence left, which was the one that best reflected the hearts of the local people. "You should hurry up." ..."

The general treats this war as a business. They have meetings with their bosses, meetings with the other bosses, press conferences, small internal meetings, and deal with all parties. The purpose may really be to bring the locals to the locals." Freedom, safety, stability, work". One sentence he has been saying is "We're going to win this." He is determined to make this business: eradicate terrorist organizations and provide local security and reconstruction opportunities.

But this is his personal belief and his personal will. He successfully excluded reality and the will of the locals completely from his own wishful thinking, and pushed the incident in the direction of his personal hope. Naturally, this road was inevitably full of corpses.

One will succeed in everything.

In his beliefs, he is doing good, working hard, surmounting all difficulties, patrolling the streets and alleys of Afghanistan, and also seeking support for talks with the presidents of the two countries. But he has always been obstructed. He doesn't understand why my boss doesn't support me, my colleagues oppose me, and the people I want to help smile so coldly, reluctantly and helplessly.

He forgot to look at the overall situation from his own level. The definition of the overall situation is also the definition of General Glen himself. And his loyal right-hand man inadvertently said this definition, "You're a killing machine, Glen."

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Extended Reading
  • Kaitlyn 2022-04-20 09:02:10

    Soldiers have contributed: What kind of experience it is to have an awkward chat with General McMahon. The front is still good, at least it's funny, but the script gets worse as it goes to the back. Pulled in Nick Cave soundtrack, you really can.

  • Micheal 2022-04-21 09:02:54

    A non-salty, not-so-sweet time-killing movie. There is no work of Heiyou soldiers that can surpass Catch 22 and M*A*S*H, this is not even close. Pete in the trough of divorce is trying hard to play a rough and axe general, his expression and body The language is too forceful, it is very contrived, but it is still much better than the last facial paralysis movie Allied. Feel free to work, I support you!

War Machine quotes

  • President Karzai: Your predecessor, General Whelan! I liked him! I'm not entirely certain he liked *me*; he didn't visit very often. Why was he dismissed? It seems- uhh, one minute he was here- uh, next minute, not here.

    Gen. Glen McMahon: Ah. Well, Mr. President, I think our government simply felt it was time our effort took a new direction.

    President Karzai: And uh, what is this new direction?

    Gen. Glen McMahon: Ah! It's most important to me that we *build* Afghanistan. Together, we build Afghanistan into a free and prosperous nation, free from fear and conflict.

    President Karzai: I see.

    Gen. Glen McMahon: Yeah.

    President Karzai: I see. Sounds a lot like the *old* direction.

  • Gen. Glen McMahon: God damn it, Pete. Why are you fat?