During World War II, a team of Italian soldiers was sent to garrison a remote island in Greece. When they got to the island, they found that the island was empty. They gradually relaxed from the initial alert, and an accident broke the radio transceiver. , they completely cut off contact with the outside world. So, slowly, they changed from being fully armed to being free and sloppy and then to lazily basking in the sun, calm but boring, until one day, they went around the other side of the island and lifted the sheets they were drying-they seemed to be into another world. Old people, children, women, they are leisurely, what are they supposed to do, and they look at ease in the face of this crooked army with weapons. The lieutenant who led the team found the priest in the city. The old priest said: "The Italians and the Greeks are both their own people, with the same face and the same nation." The seaside of the Mediterranean Sea, blue sky, blue sea and white clouds, children and beautiful women, these Italians are very They threw away their armor and discarded their armor and integrated into rural life. They herded sheep, they played football, and they enjoyed the sun. One day, a Turkish homeless came. At first they were a little wary, but then they let the Turks who said, "Italians and Turks are their own people, the same face, the same nation" to enter the room, and the Turks brought Tobacco that makes people fluttering, but in the dead of night, he also stole all the guns and weapons. Ha, the Italians who woke up were stunned. They didn't even have any weapons. The world outside turned upside down, but this lonely island was forgotten by the world like it was condemned by the gods. Of course, or it was specially favored by God, Being the last piece of paradise, now that they have lost even the last reminder of their mission, they simply put on Greek clothes and integrated into the local society. Then, the lieutenant, who had a talent for painting, was dragged by the old priest to paint the church frescoes. During the long summer, one soldier fell in love with another soldier, the third fell in love with a prostitute and got married, and the fourth and fifth soldiers Standing on the top of the mountain, laughing and frolicking with the shepherdess. The sixth soldier leads his favorite mule and silently takes care of a woman whose husband has been captured. Each has his own place and enjoys his own way. One day in the middle of the mountain is a thousand years in the world, and before you know it, The war was over, and the enemy, the British, who had been guarded at the beginning, had become allies, and they were still ignorant and ignorant.
This small island is like a paradise. This team of soldiers seems to have come to a long vacation in their lives out of thin air. They have no past and no future, but only live in the present. The good days are not real. If there is a Garden of Eden, it is probably nothing more than that. Most anti-war films show you the cruelty of war in blood, but this one shows you the beauty of life, because it is so beautiful, so the distant war is particularly cruel.
When the stout and bearded sergeant danced slowly with the local old man to the cheerful music of the Mediterranean, I suddenly burst into tears. At this moment, I seemed to be able to understand the heart of the character in the film. At this moment, he must be calm and joyful. It is really sad that the years of Jinghao suddenly appear alive in front of us. Such beauty not only contrasts with the cruelty of war but also the cruelty of real life.
At the end of the film, the British came to the island to bring them back to Italy. The soldier who married a local woman hid in an olive oil barrel and refused to leave. He said that there was everything he wanted here. Decades later, the lieutenant has grown old and returned to the island again. The sergeant who had the ambition to go back to build a great motherland has already returned to the island, and the soldier who insisted on staying has never left. The island, which gave them peace and happiness back then, will now give them their final destination.
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92 Oscar for the best foreign language film "Mediterranean", unexpected joy.
Subtitles are given at the end of the film: To all those who are escaping.
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