A sense of nothingness

Trisha 2022-03-22 09:02:39

7.5

There are no typical characters, or all typical characters. How each specific fighter has to work hard and have to take care of himself on the road, what is the most real burden in survival, what the previous movies that focused on depicting the cruelty and glory of war could not do this. Ordinary people can't stand this kind of pressure, I thought at the time when I watched those movies, but all people are really mortals, and like today's mortals, they are deliberately instilled with those knowledge, those who are short-lived, those who have a thick life, laughter or sobbing.

From July 1914 to November 1918, because the span was too long, everyone was reluctant to admit that it was the same war. I was sixteen that year and turned nineteen when my father allowed me to join the army. The streets are testing, why didn't you go to the front line? There are no ill-fitting boots in the military, only ill-fitting feet, urinating in the boots to make them pliable. We were not allowed to soil the badge, but were never given the tools to clean it. The most important thing is that I have never killed anyone, so I am not sure if I can.

In the army, you will only think about how to take good care of the most troublesome person, and you will never take care of him after you leave the battlefield. You get your friend up and try it after you've shot all the bullets, but he's shot dead on the spot without firing a shot, and that's the way it is, you're grief-stricken and indifferent, he's your friend but you've been through a lot of battles. Finally, fire at everything that moves, and the bayonet also inserts into all visible life. In the end, you have to judge whether a person is dead or alive. If he is dead, there will be no more trouble waiting for him, medically speaking.

At the end of the war, everyone is grateful that there is no lasting feast; no one cares who wins, everyone is fed up; no one cheers, everyone just collapses on the ground; no whimper, just some whimper-like sound; indescribable How terrifying is the exhaustion of sitting in the trenches waiting for things to fall, the exhaustion of living like an animal; life is worthless, no one is a hero, just killed or not. Benjamin said that a phenomenon that accompanied the First World War has become more and more obvious, and it has not stopped until now: the soldiers and soldiers were all reticent after returning from the battlefield, and the experience that could be exchanged was not more abundant but less.

Some histories are public, others are private; the living return to youth, the dead are no longer old, and go wherever they come from. Image restoration and remastered sound effects after less than half an hour cannot bring the dead back to life, but can provide the illusion of resurrection. Personally, I have always been opposed to the director of Peter Jackson. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is technically unparalleled, but I tried many times and couldn't watch it. The content of this war movie itself is more fresh to me than the obvious technicalism, and the detailed narration and the picture are well matched to each other.

His goal has been achieved - only by constantly stacking these trivialities that are accumulating dust in the silent place, can the so-called macroscopic meaning be eliminated. The same is true of the war spectacles he created. I have never felt that they are so close to us. The time is also the place. , we are just entertaining ourselves.

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  • Ettie 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    The only reason you love war is that you haven't participated in war. War will never end itself. The only thing that can end a war is life.

  • Ruby 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    History is never black and white, black and white are only the machines we use to record; when black and white are restored to color, the sense of distance imposed by the machine disappears. Yesterday I just talked about why I don’t like to watch war movies, especially those about World War I and World War II, because the big battle scenes in these movies are always full of fuzzy faces. It or they are too far away from my experience. I rarely make movies. The middle character or situation really moved. But this movie touched me deeply. Apart from the technical “gimmicks”, its anti-war angle is also very soft. The historical materials selected are not just news-style. More often, the archive images are like family videos. With various details in oral history, the content it presents becomes private and intimate-it seems to have no protagonist and no name, but each face is more vivid than any fictional character in any drama. In the picture, apple plum jam, poppies all over the floor and blood of fallen soldiers are all red.

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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.