You and I are mortals, fighting hard all your life

Frederik 2022-01-15 08:02:09

Fighting for the news to spread the truth, the film based on biographical literature, the director is very good!

Fan Chunhua, who was glamorous back then, turned into an old woman, which is also an amazing feature.

The "one-eyed woman" wearing her luxurious La Perla underwear left us during the war in Syria. Forgetting to die and racing against time, the "one-eyed woman"'s bargaining chip is her own life. She has abandoned a healthy and normal married life. She can only paralyze her body and mind with alcoholism, smoking, and one-night stand. This is a private war. While reporting the news, the heroine struggles with death and her heart.

This film is not about a hero. What attracts me is not her deeds as a heroine, but what she thinks, feels and fears as an ordinary person. (Professional career has given me many adventures like hers) These things let us see the complexity of human nature. The movie allows people to see a mortal body like you and me, but it has become a miracle. You see her lively fighting against her own weaknesses as a human being, and constantly forcing herself to go deeper into the front-line war zone to report. You watch her fight against her survival instincts, with fear and despair in her heart.

It should be said that the life of a female reporter is far more exciting than that of a movie. Admire her, but disagree with the American political views conveyed in the film.

I would like to dedicate this film to all war reporters and writers who are on the front lines and dangerous areas of the war!

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Extended Reading
  • Sunny 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    Hollywood finally started the story of the war in Libya and Syria after the Iran crisis, the Middle East war and even the Afghanistan war. The main theme is essentially the affirmation of the Arab Spring and the advocacy of democracy and freedom.

  • Cole 2022-03-24 09:03:16

    From the protagonist's personal point of view, it is said that war reporters are somewhat crazy to go to and from dangerous areas again and again to witness people and events. It does not specifically emphasize her private life, work content and its meaning, but more on her mental state.

A Private War quotes

  • [first lines]

    Interviewer: Last question. Fifty years from now, some youngster's gonna pull this disc out of a box and maybe make a judgment about becoming a journalist. What would you want that youngster to know about Marie Colvin and about being a war correspondent?

    Marie Colvin: Very difficult question. It's like writing, uh, your own obituary. I suppose to look back at it and say, you know, I cared enough to go to these places and write, in some way, something that would make, uh, someone else care as much about it as I did at the time. Part of it is you're never gonna get to where you're going if you acknowledge fear. I think fear comes later,

    [realization chuckle]

    Marie Colvin: when it's all over.

  • Marie Colvin: [about Norm] He was always first in and last out. He was invincible.

    Paul Conroy: There are old journalists and there are bold journalists. There are no old and bold journalists. You said that.