"They Don't Grow Old"
Another great documentary this year.
The mode of narrating the memory of the veterans through the narration seems to be boring (I admit, fell asleep in the middle?), but the choreography is quite elaborate. All narrations do not have cheap feelings or self-moving of "righteousness and awe-inspiring". His tone of voice, but he is telling you about the battlefield of gunpowder that he has experienced, it makes people feel distressed to think about it. From the excitement of anticipation when immersed in romantic fantasies of war at the beginning, to the confusion and numbness when witnessing the battlefield, the absurdity of frolicking with enemy troops when stopping, and finally returning home after the war, no one cares about this war, Interested in the hurt you've been through, they'll just joke "where did you go, kid?" or that you've forgotten social etiquette, that you've got lice, and no one wants to imagine you huddled in a trench, and your ego only Can relieve pain by licking wounds with comrades.
All these trivialities, on the one hand revealing the real wartime daily life, on the other hand revealing the war - meaningless. This can be understood in conjunction with "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle" and "Goodbye in the Sky", which ultimately point to the absurdity of war. After all, when one takes off the self as an individual, puts on the cloak of the other, and hides in the collective shelter, no one can be responsible for the atrocities alone, everyone is just a driven part of the entire war machine , the war seems to be just a job to be done. And as an ordinary person, all you need to do is - "don't overdo it".
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