Overall very good! (2007/10/27)

Bertram 2022-10-26 19:39:33

God will take the best things around us to remind us of how much we get. -- "Four Feathers"

God is an unknowable excuse. The truth is that we miss it, only to find that what we have lost is so precious to us, so we can see our ignorance and conceit clearly.

Just for this line, I went to watch this movie.

A tale of courage and honor, "feather" is a contempt for "cowards," which are as light as a feather in the heart. It is these four white feathers that inspired a series of heroic actions after the protagonist.

What attracted me was the initial hesitation and cowardice of the protagonist.

War is connected with honor, but what kind of honor in war is really worth the exchange of life?
When such questioning and introspection are also prohibited, only fanaticism remains. If you do not obey this fanaticism, you will be abandoned by the fanatical crowd.

At this time, rational hesitation and natural cowardice are more true to human nature.

However, the protagonist went around in circles and did not find a better way. Among the four white feathers, he was confused and finally walked to the battlefield. After that, the plot is all logical and cliché.

The limitations of people are obvious, and I have no better idea, and I am very concerned.

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The Four Feathers quotes

  • Jack Durrance: You may be lost, but you are not forgotten. For those who have travelled far, to fight in foreign lands, know that the soldier's greatest comfort is to have his friends close at hand. In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea for which we fight. Or a flag. Rather we fight for the man on our left, and we fight for the man on our right. And when armies are scattered and the empires fall away, all that remains is the memory of those precious moments that we spent sided by side.

  • Jack Durrance: I suppose I'm going because you are going. There is no one I'd sooner trust my life with. You're all that matters.