Surprise Position 60

This film is adapted from real events. In 1916, Australian miner Oliver Woodward said goodbye to his girlfriend, the sister of his best friend, and came to the bloody European battlefield. At this time, the warring parties have already developed the battle from the ground and the air to the underground. Both sides recruited miners and engineers to form engineering troops, dig tunnels under the enemy's positions, lay out mines and explosives, and blow up thousands of enemy soldiers into the sky. Both sides extended fortifications underground, and a desperate struggle between underground tunneling and anti-tunneling began. Woodward and his soldiers from the first battalion of the Australian Engineers have won the mission to the 60th Heights in Belgium, where they overcame groundwater penetration and the German underground reconnaissance. They paid the lives of many soldiers and finally completed it. Task. They made the British soldiers who had always been proud and admired, and never dared to underestimate these Australians who were burrowing in the ground.

This film does not have a grand war scene, but it can show the cruelty and bloody of an alternative battlefield in a narrow, dim, dirty air, and muddy underground. Those miners and engineers who were originally ignored are the masters of this battlefield.

The film cleverly uses the narrative technique of two main lines interspersed, which makes it different from the same type of film. Apart from the main line of the war, another narrative thread parallel to it captures the experience of the protagonist tunnel expert Woodward in his hometown and his beloved girl. There is no thrilling part of their love, but only because the two bright and lovely personalities illuminate the whole film.

It feels like the two narrative clues are very peaceful, and even the lines of war rarely have narrative episodes of ups and downs. But it is under these peaces that each fresh life has the opportunity to show the vivid side of human nature. It is even more obvious, the absurdity and cruelty of this war! In essence, this is not a war about the interests of civilians, but it is the civilians who shed the most blood and sacrifices!

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