World War I

Margarita 2022-03-21 09:03:00

World War I, a war story that is too far away, the film was released on November 11, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice announced on November 11, 2018. The whole film is subtitled and narrated by a number of World War I veterans with voiceovers. From the initial ignorance of participating in the war, some people even reported their age, just to join the army, to experiencing the cruelty of the war, corpses, rats, harsh environment, hygiene, food. Lack, and finally insisted that he did not die and returned to China after the war. Many people felt at a loss as if they had been laid off after knowing that there was no need to fight in 1918.11.11. But it's not over yet. Immediately after returning home, there will be a wave of unemployment, discrimination against the soldiers participating in the war, and a lack of understanding of the war, and even keep silent about the war, because there is no winner, it is meaningless. No one among ordinary people wants to hear about the war, nor do they want to understand the war. They think it is a cavalry charge. They don’t know about tanks, bayonets, mines and other particularly cruel tools of war. This can be said to be a completely meaningless war, but it was accompanied by more than 1 million sacrifices in 4 years, which shows its absurdity.

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  • Amy 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Good to be good, but due to the limitation of materials, this anonymous conversation of one person and one sentence can reproduce the perspective of a soldier in a broad sense, but at the same time, it also loses the more powerful effect that one or two specific narrators can bring. Good empathy, and somewhat fragmented.

  • Geovany 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Great fix. In this centenary year, no one alive has any memory of the battlefield. But the movie makes people remember that every living life was lost in this meaningless war

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They Shall Not Grow Old quotes

  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.