"The Banner of the Fathers" and "Iwo Jima Letters" are two films made by director Lint Eastwood from the perspective of the United States and Japan respectively based on the Battle of Iwo Jima. What is commendable is that both are very exciting.
I think I can feel something from this film.
One is the strength of the three-dimensional defense system of Kuribayashi Tadashima. The original plan of the US military on the 5th was delayed to the 30th, resulting in heavy losses of more than 6,000 US troops and more than 20,000 casualties. From the tactical point of view, this war was successful, and undoubtedly greatly delayed the process of the US military's attack on the Japanese mainland.
The second is the cruelty of the war. Because war is not a game after all, you can marvel at the wonderful performance of the planner from a tactical and strategic perspective. Every so-called classic battle is paved with the lives of countless people. And those of us in the audience, if in wartime, are mostly soldiers who were sacrificed. So I would rather not have this artistic beauty.
The third is to sigh that good luck makes people. If there was no war, elites like Kuribayashi Tadashima might have achieved more in other fields and contributed more to human society, rather than being wasted on a battlefield where countless lives were sacrificed. And the ordinary soldiers in the film will not go to Yusui to charge, but live a dull life in peace and stability.
The fourth is the homosexuality of human nature. When I was a child, I hated the Japanese so much, I hated the Americans so much, I hated the Russians so much. In fact, we are all human beings. Although we have been influenced by different cultures and grew up in different family environments, we are all human beings, and we can understand human nature.
Especially after spending a lot of social books, such as "The Crowd" and "Social Psychology", he has a deeper understanding of human nature. In a certain scenario, in a certain situation, the choices made by most people will be very similar. This has nothing to do with nationality, race or gender. This is human nature. Angels and devils are actually only separated by a thin line, and they may change into each other.
What we should do is try to avoid the scene where people become the devil, or how to avoid and protect ourselves as soon as possible when such a scene occurs, instead of simply sticking a label and setting up an enemy as a target to finish the job.
To quote the opening line of Fallout, "War, war never changes," and so is human nature.
PS, by the way, let’s talk about the shortcomings of this show. There is no clear time description in the film. If it is added, it will make people more clear about the process of the war and better understand the situation of the Japanese army running out of ammunition and food at that time.
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