One depicts the going and staying of friendship and survival, and the other depicts children who are looking for peace and have no freedom.
If BR2 were a standalone movie, I think it would still be a success. War is too far away from us, children forget the taste and color of war. Giving up selfishness in exchange for friendship and a sense of peace, it can be touching to leave a country not worth staying in. But apparently we don't like those heroic plots anymore.
What puzzled me the most was why every BR plan would cause a situation out of control, and even the teachers all changed their minds later? Maybe the second time will make us feel ordinary, and the existence of ordinary but unreasonable will make us question.
In the first part, Zhongxin Er did not raise the theme so high, but let the audience experience the feeling of giving up from the beginning to the end. Although it is a happy ending to see the three people stick to friendship and trust without fear from beginning to end, it is also true to see other children kill each other in exchange for their own lives. Under the same circumstances, some people gave up, some insisted, and some people have always been evil. The most important thing is that they are not fighting in groups, but finding their own meaning to fight everything on the battlefield, and their actions have been answered by themselves.
It's a pity that in the second part, Kenta used the name of BR to stage a completely different drama. It's understandable that he can't use the same group of people in the same place to play the same drama. It can only be said that this small battlefield belonging to minors can't contain meanings such as terrorism and hegemonism. If they came here for the peace of the world, they shouldn't just buy and sell for their own lives.
The most missing thing in the whole film is the change of the children. It seems that they can stand together and fight side by side from beginning to end. When the victory is won, you will not feel that all this is easy, because they no longer need it. choice. In the first part, I deeply felt that what is really difficult is not to conquer but to choose the impossible path and achieve it. But the biggest difficulty of BR2 is obviously to overcome the fear of the adults. This kind of steady road does not seem to be moved by the viewers, and it can only be said that everything comes as a matter of course.
I think the peace that comes from hard choices is far more real and elaborate than the peace that comes from fighting to the end.
Perhaps everything that hasn't changed is the unimpressive point of the second installment.
Besides, the teacher of Takeshi Kitano in BR, this is a very real character, no one likes him, he can stand on that platform in cold blood and announce the death of the child. But there has always been an angel in his life who brought him the only laughter. He could laugh at everyone's death but couldn't bear a child being frozen. When the teacher really saw that the angel in his heart chose the kind side from beginning to end and stood firmly in front of him, he unshakably believed that she was really an angel. After all doubts disappeared, he also gave up everything he did not believe and chose to follow the justice that he trusted and existed.
It's a pity that BR2's teacher chose a just ending, which made us bizarre, even for no reason. At this time, we can only believe that it is undercover.
BR2 uses too much drama to create the beauty of justice, but there is no convincing foreshadowing, which will inevitably make people untouchable.
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