just like a soldier

Gennaro 2022-01-18 08:02:12

March 14th, dusk.
I watched the old movie "The Wild Geese" during dinner. Because I remembered that when I was very young, I was watching a black and white TV at home, and I only remembered the story of a group of tough guys who rescued an African Congolese president.

There are many war chapters in the history of film. This one is not too dazzling, and it is probably not very famous, but why do you make yourself unforgettable? I have been trying to find the reason for rewatching for many years. I think it should be the scene in the play. Before the plane took off, the old friend Rui Wu couldn't get on the plane and loudly asked the colonel on the plane to shoot him to death

. Shocking and tragic, there is a magnificent poem about friendship and the meaning of life in my young heart.

Look again, there is a clear DVD picture, there is a bright color screen, and the gray image in the memory is very different. But the memory, walking with this image, awakens the long vaguely moved feelings that permeate the depths of the memory-

the reunion of three old friends; the recollection of the boss and the subordinates; the farm that wins freedom and disdains politics The conversations between the soldiers and the black president like Mandela-are filled with deep and deep thoughts about the heroism of the passing years and the exploration of how life should be spent.

Why did they come? Why fight? The plot seems to tell us straight from the beginning: for money is just a contract. But when the old friend Rui Wu put on reading glasses to study the map and began to enter the role of staff, we saw that the colonel's eyes were frozen; when the master sergeant stood beside the rose bush and answered the colonel "Yes, Sir!" while his wife hid. While crying inside the house, when the supervisor sat in distress and told the old subordinates with silver eyebrows, "(This) is a bloody battle", the subordinates laughed, "Is it bloody? I like it!" When everyone wrote their will on the eve of the battle. While joking, we saw that the answer was no longer on the contract, as if the soldier told the colonel to tell us: Let us live again, just as a soldier!

Hey, don't be too beautified!

At this time, there may be a watchman who jumped out and slapped a stick-isn't it a mercenary? !

Mercenary, this word is so vivid, just like the representative of this word in the film-Peter, a soldier who hated politics for only buying a farm with a reward of 30,000 pounds, talked with the black president along the way. Calling him a change from "nigger" to "man" to "buddy", what we see is that he was still dragging the president's hand and crawling forward before he died. The black president grabbed his hands desperately. In such an emergency, he couldn't urge him to let go several times. We saw a pair of black hands superimposed on the white hands stained with red blood, so black, hundred, and red. At this moment, farms and politics are out of reach before the entrustment of life.

Of course, the scene that made me unforgettable the most, once slammed my soul so deeply, the difference between two old friends was the most impressive stroke. When I was young, I heard Rui Wu, an old friend who was suddenly dropped by a plane and couldn't catch up, yelled: "Quick! Shoot me to death!" I was shocked, shocked, that kind of choice to die like this The tragic and majesty of facing death was something that my young soul couldn't bear and taste at that time. I only knew that when I closed my eyes, I felt the suffocating pain of being beaten up in my heart.

Now that I watched it again, I closed my eyes again, and the beating of the drum made my heart hurt. The night came up at dusk, and in the gorgeous sunset on the screen, the old friend lay quietly under the glow of the rising plane circling.

I didn't shed tears, um, just like a soldier.

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Extended Reading
  • Margarita 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    In the films of that era, the shots were so real, although many were not logical; will those who break away from the war fall into it?

  • Ed 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    The whole one "Seven Samurai" + "Sunset Rangers", the Mandarin dubbing is so loving~

The Wild Geese quotes

  • RSM Sandy Young: Some of you know me already! Those of you who don't are in for a great, big fuckin' surprise! For those of you who do can expect an infinitely more horrible time than they can remember! Any man here who steps out of line and I will kill stone dead, it will not worry me in the slightest! There are no Queen's regulations here! When I say jump, you ask how high,Do I make myself clear? I want to hear it! Do I make myself clear? RIGHT! On the command Right and Left turn, A and B squads turn to the right, C and D squads turn to the left. SQUADS! Right and Left TURN! Right! Let's drive for our first heart attack shall we!

  • Lt. Shawn Fynn: That's the best news I've had since I threw up my breakfast.