When I saw my superiors decided to send someone to find Ryan, I started to look in the movie why the Chief of Staff gave this order, and why the captain accepted the task without any complaints. For such a purposeful search like writing an essay to find the answer, I ignored a lot of details and did not find the answer. When I look back, I feel that the details explain the mission of the mission more truly.
When they landed on the beach and opened a gap, facing the German soldiers who had surrendered, the American soldiers couldn't stop their guns and shot them angrily. When attacking, you cannot bring living prisoners to affect the speed of the march. This is an important principle in the minds of military experts, but it is cruel to the implementers of this principle at the bottom. When they return to the peaceful age , The cruelty of shooting prisoners and doubts about their own nature will undoubtedly entangle their hearts and accompany them for the rest of their lives. When Ryan’s mother received the news that three children were killed on the battlefield at the same time, she lay lonely at the door of her house (not seeing her husband, maybe a single mother), facing the peaceful and peaceful countryside, the comfort of priests and officers How helpless, the mother's powerlessness and collapse seemed to erupt in silence in the silent scenes of the movie. As a child, I, who don't want children in my mind, cannot truly understand what children mean to parents like a parent. But people in the role of parents are the leaders of the world, and they can understand this meaning, including the chief of staff, including soldiers in combat, including every parent who sees this story. When the soldiers were sacrificed, the movie showed a few soldiers yelling for their mothers. For me, every shout made me think about what my mother meant to me, a question that I had never seriously thought about (I’m like this, easy Take the good things around you as a habit, and get used to numbness).
All of the above, for me, made me feel emotionally, and it moved me more than the domestic heroism. It is unknown whether the United States will take rescue operations against every "Ryan" in reality. But as for this movie, whether it is a tribute to the U.S. military or a strategic cultural penetration of the U.S., setting aside these, only from the perspective of the plot, it is touching and can resonate widely; only from the perspective of filming. That said, it is quick and excellent. It is this emotional resonance, the promotion of beauty and kindness, that also makes the act of saving Ryan in the movie reasonable, romantic and beautiful.
After capturing a radar station, most people wanted to kill the German prisoners, but the captain desperately stopped him, saying that he would think of his father when he killed him. At this time, his words were calm and persuasive. The battlefield has changed him, at least it is certain that he is no longer the old gentle English composition teacher, he is afraid that his wife will be strange to him. He felt that if he killed the German prisoners who had not resisted, if he did not save the mother’s only son, he would not be able to face his wife and could not redeem his killing on the battlefield (even though he was fighting for peace, but After all, killing will cast a shadow on people). Is his worthy worthy of his dead comrades, or is he worthy of Ryan and Ryan's mother? I think it's the latter.
Therefore, for the purpose of the article, I think it is still a kind of promotion of empathy and care between people; a question of how to deal with people who are unfamiliar but need help who are experiencing the same difficulties. This is also the color and beauty that are lacking in today's indifferent black and white large-scale movies in the age of worship.
Any war is harmful, because in every war there will be casualties, and every soldier who has passed away has parents and relatives who brought him up and grew up with great difficulty. Therefore, every soldier who misses his parents and relatives wants to go home, and they are also the people who most hope for peace. Peace is so ordinary to me in the age of peace, but it is a more ardent yearning for the soldiers who used to be on the bloody battlefield than life.
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