They just want to live they don't grow old anymore

Marcel 2022-03-23 09:03:03

This film was released on Double 11. It is quite niche. It took a lot of trouble to find a screening store in Tianjin. The film focuses on the daily life of soldiers in a station from 1914 to 1918, and uses the most advanced technology to transform images from a hundred years ago. It has been restored in full color and imported with sound waves. The oral history of British veterans is used as a narration to restore the experience and feelings of soldiers in one station, how to survive in extremely harsh environments, and how to overcome the fear of death itself. Peter the Great gave it again. We demonstrated magic, technology that allowed black and white afterimages to emerge from silence, vivid color images more vivid than any text, and the breath of death permeated, vivid and terrifying.

In addition to the visual shock, the film shows you the most ordinary and ordinary feelings of every soldier in every detail. They joined the army in a daze and grew up in the war. They don't care about winning or losing, they just want to survive. World War I was a dog-eat-dog war between imperialists. No one was more just than anyone else. History finally proved that it was an absurd and meaningless war. It has been more than 100 years since the hail of bullets has passed, but as a person living in a peaceful era, you should go into the theater to experience the war-torn era and understand the cruel and humane history of that period. The European battlefield a century ago has never been the same. It has never been so close to us, and it conveys a shocking power.

Crazy, so awesome.

"No one cried when we got in the car, we were all happy. I wrote a postcard and threw it out the window, and it flew to my house after washing."

"Dedicated to the Fallen Soldiers"

They don't grow old,

The years have left no traces of vicissitudes,

Whenever the sun sets and the sun rises,

We will all remember them.

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Extended Reading
  • Tiana 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Don't go after the credits are up, there is a director's self-reported tidbits

  • Orland 2022-03-20 09:02:36

    Unexpectedly, it is a 3D version of the documentary, the format is very novel. There are a few deep impressions: One is the battle from the perspective of a British soldier, and Zweig’s "Yesterday's World" wrote a battle from the German and Austrian perspective. There is a common psychology that everyone felt at the beginning Fighting is similar to a happy party. They feel that the war will end soon and the motherland will definitely win; one is that most of them are only ten years old and have no way out in the country. On the contrary, they found the meaning of life in the war; the other is the end of the war. Later, when I returned to my hometown, no one cared about your experience in the war, and my heart was full of feelings of loss and humiliation. War is meaningless.

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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.