Melody of Restrepo

Antwon 2022-01-14 08:02:07

I like to watch movies, not only because of the screen, dialogue or the plot itself, but also because of the soundtrack in the movie, because whenever the music sounds, it always touches the deepest string of emotions, which makes people extremely excited. Well, it makes people cry like rain. Of course, the music here can be real or nothing.
Just like this "Restrepo", from beginning to end, only the incomplete guitar playing of the real protagonist in the film is scattered like fragments from beginning to end, although there is no majestic or soft and swirling acoustic music. , But I can feel the melody resounding in that narrow valley. It is not at all tragic, not sentimental, not inspiring, not inviting at all. Only the word "heavy" can describe it, perhaps even the word is far from being able to describe it. And, but only a sigh.
This is the style of the documentary, especially about the subject matter of the recent war, which can not help but let people have this experience. After being in peace for a long time, naturally, I often forget the battlefields of the army and horses that flew through the war thousands of years ago. If you are far from the war-torn place, you naturally can't remember the death and wailing in the artillery and bullets. Such a film allows people to feel the suffocation at close range. After watching it, no matter how much emotion, resentment, and criticism, I feel powerless. After all, I am just a cold-eyed bystander, and I am not qualified to comment or qualify. To sigh, this is just a fact, alive and bloody, very close to reality, but far away from reality. You can't imagine what kind of picture this is, but you can experience that personal fear through every real conversation and every blurry shot.
Maybe you’re in a movie theater or sitting in front of your computer, but you think of it as an after-hours pastime. Maybe this movie is not as thrilling as "Saving Private Ryan", "The Soldiers Under the City", "The Hurt Locker", and it turns around (perhaps by itself) It can't be called a movie). Maybe there is no tit-for-tat exchange of fire, and the moment when the soldiers fall to the ground cannot be seen. Maybe there are only some scattered pictures spliced ​​together, and the shaking shots can't even see what happened. Maybe there are only some pictures of everyday life, with a few swear words, playing the guitar and smoking cigarettes.
This is not a movie, because there is no ideal here, this is reality, because it is full of the original face of life, we can't feel it, not because it never happened, but just didn't experience it with our heart.
"you are lying". When a soldier saw the sergeant dying on the hillside beside him, he said so, with a dull face and disbelief. It's like the plot in the movie, but it's more torn apart. There is no bright red blood flowing here, but you can feel the weight of death. Soldiers, Taliban, and civilians, all of whom have become victims without exception. There is no script here, but it is full of the five flavors of the story. There is no protagonist here. The US military forces following the camera are just the entrants who take us into another world. There is only a narrative about life.
Those Afghan residents living in the valley cannot guarantee their livelihoods, but they have endured the test of death from nowhere. Those American troops who were conscripted into the valley shouted the oath to serve their country, and in the end they could only fight for themselves. There are those militants who seem to be hiding in the dark, like a group of crazy religious believers holding their own weapons of faith.
Cultural clashes, belief disputes, or competition for interests. No matter what it is, it is a heavy burden that belongs to the human species, dealing with death and struggle. It is not the meaning of life, but it can only become the ultimate destination.
All of this happened around us, maybe you say it is far away, but the earth is our common home, in fact, we are also inextricably linked with everything. Maybe you just looked at the equipment of the US military, cursed a few words about the blindness of the government, or felt helpless in Afghanistan.
In fact, we can also start from around us, change from around us, maybe we can exchange more sincerity when we communicate with others, we should be more calm when conflicts occur, and we should be more tolerant when interacting with culture. . Perhaps war has nothing to do with us, but who can say that war is not an amplification of specific cultural life, or a manifestation of disputes in our exchanges and interactions?

View more about Restrepo reviews

Extended Reading
  • Hadley 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    The poison of war, the paradox of democracy...

  • Serenity 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    Fragmented life. I didn't feel moved at all, just felt bullet-like indifference. I don't like this kind of movie. Although it is different from the previous anti-war movies, it is obvious in the movie that the American soldiers only have a unilateral nostalgia for their compatriots, and their cold and tough attitude after causing losses to the local people in Afghanistan is very disgusting! These poor soldiers, should you pity you or say you deserve it! ? The soundtrack and rambling clips are a little interesting.

Restrepo quotes

  • Joshua McDonough: They're gathering intel right now, basically, on how to deal with us because they haven't - - there's no real research or intel on how to treat us right now because they haven't had to deal with people like us since WWII and Vietnam, you know, dealing with guys that are coming back from 15 month deployments with as much fighting, you know, as we went through.