Insights into everyday life from war-themed films

Dylan 2022-03-24 09:01:48

The film tells the story of six U.S. special forces fighting against local militants in order to protect the U.S. ambassador and U.S. hidden bases in the chaotic environment of Benghazi, Libya. The continuous battle scene has always caught my eye, but when the film ended, I instead found it worth savoring the daily life of the special forces in the film, the base personnel, and when the ambassador and the base were attacked, at such a critical moment, a few The attitudes and actions displayed by the main characters.

Let’s talk about their daily life first. There is no fierce battle in the nearly 1-hour film at the beginning, only the local armed forces holding weapons and the weapons prepared by the special forces in the base. The special forces with strong will risk their lives outside, but when they return home, they are the fathers of several children in the family. After laying down their weapons, they immediately showed a gentle and loving person, which is in the male lead. After I came to Benghazi alone, I made several videos and calls with my family, which fully showed the gentle side of a man who loves his family. When soldiers go to war outside, they rely on their wives at home. The wives have to take care of several children by themselves, and deal with all kinds of trivial life and the children's various frolics. In the days without husbands, they also have to overcome their inner panic and cope with it at the same time. The irritability caused by multiple things, conflicts between husband and wife occur from time to time, which is very normal, but after the event, both husband and wife will think more about each other and understand each other. This is a harmonious family mode of getting along, otherwise how can a man fight outside the war with peace of mind ? In the film, Jack was given two close-up scenes, one was a computer video recording his guilt towards his wife and his desire to go home, and the other was when he realized that his life might be in danger, he rushed back to the room and sent the video out. , the audience must be able to make up his purpose and the sad picture of his wife after seeing this video. The daily life of the special forces is very "simple", rest-train-task-rest-train-task, which is the same rhythm as people in the city work-study-rest-work-study-rest. Sometimes I feel tired and stressed because I have requirements on myself, and the requirements are far higher than my current ability, which leads to a very tired life. Life is a gradual and very natural process. Deliberate practice is also what we do when we have a clear goal, and we often follow the footsteps of other people's lives. Others have many certificates. , Others travel here, I also want to travel, others get married, I want to get married, etc., these have disrupted their original rhythm of life. Life is a very natural and gradual process .

Let's talk about the realization of several main characters when an emergency occurs. When the 6 special forces learned that the ambassador's station was attacked, they immediately prepared themselves and were ready to go to rescue at any time. At this time, Captain Tyrone said to everyone, " You don't need to go, but we are their only help ". Very sincere, in the atmosphere at the time, and the ambassador of his own country was attacked on other people's land, such sincere words have aroused the fighting spirit of the hot-blooded man, and no one will back down at this time. Personally, I think this sentence of Tyrone is a classic scene and a classic line of this film. Another person, the station chief of the base, plays the role of the Pentagon's microphone. Everything is reported first, and then orders are issued. Moreover, he exerts his powers to the fullest. They are reservists or mercenaries, look down on them. After the attack, when he needed someone to direct him, he had no direction and could not make up his mind. He could only hold the phone and wait for the headquarters' decision. The ambassador's death was related to his inaction to a certain extent. The minds of the Pentagon are even more amazing. The unmanned reconnaissance aircraft have already arrived at the scene. When they saw the scene footage sent back, they could fully feel that the scene was very dangerous, but until the end of the film, they did not take large-scale rescue measures. , but only sent a delta force of 6 or 7 people to support. If the local government troops were not dispatched to escort them to evacuate safely, everyone in the base would likely be destroyed by the militants.

Personally, I think the director is a person with very delicate feelings. In the continuous battle scenes, adding real character close-ups, on the one hand, avoids the continuous battle scenes in the film from causing the audience to be fatigued, and on the other hand makes the characters in the film flesh and blood. , to make the audience feel that they are ordinary people around them. For me, I think about the troubles of daily work, and realize that personal interests are insignificant to the interests of the company and the interests of the country. Personal happiness and happiness are achieved by myself, and companies and countries are the realization of personal happiness and happiness. The tool is the platform. Think about how to make your life happy, live happily, is responsible for yourself.

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  • Tyrone 'Rone' Woods: How would you feel if you had to protect Americans at $28 a day and then bring your own bullets?

    Jack Silva: Well, why leave security to the professionals, right?

  • Tyrone 'Rone' Woods: Sean was sent here to install secure comms for the Ambo. Ended up supercharging our Wi-Fi.

    Jack Silva: Wish he could do that at our residence.