What is War? If you ask a general, you will get the answer of thousands of troops, if you ask a soldier, you will get the answer of a charge, if you ask a politician, you will get the answer of the survival of the country, and if you ask an artist, the answer will be the eternity of life and death. No one here asks ordinary people, ordinary people whose lives have been torn apart by war, what they think of war.
The film "Yan Nanfei" recommended to you today gives an ordinary person's answer, no one likes war, because war is a sacrifice, especially for ordinary people, sacrifice may mean life and death, or it may mean that a family is floating in the wind and rain.
"Flying Wild Goose" is a film about war, and the war told in this film is not limited to World War II, but refers to all wars. Before the war, Veronica and the young Boris were lovers, and they lived a sweet life like any pair of lovers, but the good times did not last long, and the war began. For young people, war is unfamiliar, and at the same time, war is also exciting, and war is a disaster that falls from the sky for everyone, but for young people, at an age of ignorance and vitality, they do not have any fear of war.
Boris wants to join the army, Veronica does not want her lover to go like this, but reality does not make Veronica's expectations come true, even Boris's last farewell did not make Veronica wish. The war soon came to the rear, and Veronica's parents were killed in an air raid, leaving her desperate to live in Boris's home, where the family accepted her son's girlfriend. However, tragedy struck again and again, Boris soon lost news during the war, and his cousin took the opportunity to seize Veronica. Veronica was stared over, but to no avail, she was still looking forward to Boris's news in her heart.
However, Veronica's expectations were once again in vain, Boris's comrades-in-arms came to deliver the letter, and Veronica finally received the news that her lover had died in battle. The war was won, the cheering crowds flocked to the triumphant soldiers from all directions, Veronica also wanted to see her familiar face in the crowd, but this trance anticipation was only an expectation, when the tide of crowds continued to hit Veronica's increasingly disappointed face, a flock of geese flew overhead, just like the scene when Boris and her first love were so similar, Veronica finally accepted the fact that her lover was gone, and she gave the flowers in her hand to those who shared the joy.
The most classic thing left to the audience or later film and television practitioners is the whirlwind shot of Boris falling down, but outside the camera, we need to think more abundantly.
Veronica and Boris represent ordinary people, they are insignificant to war, but war is indeed an insurmountable wall for them. Boris joined the army in order to live up to his own blood, and even now, if we look at it from the perspective of self-interest, young people like Boris are not a minority among us. Boris's cousin, however, was a speculator in the war. We cannot tolerate the existence of such people, but such people are real among us.
In the face of a disaster that the public cannot control, the public has made different choices, some people choose to steal life, and some people choose to be hot. But these choices eventually lead to all kinds of lives, and we are used to seeing generals and soldiers fighting on the battlefield, but there are not many creators who portray people who endure in the war and have little hope to study and hope. They are the same people who lost themselves for the sake of war, and they are also people who have tasted all the hardships in the war. What does war mean to them?
We are always complacent about the sergeants who won the war, the prisoners who lost the war, but we won the victory, what did we give? It may be a generation that pays, and it may be thousands of families who pay. Veronica was full of anticipation and bid farewell to her Boris, but the war was won, and thousands of Veronica and thousands of Boris were reunited, but they did not correspond one-to-one. Those Boris who are familiar with Veronica may not be able to return, and those who are alive Veronica will not be able to find their own Boris. This is war, which makes the people in front and behind full of concern, but they are all misplaced when they triumph. Of course, we all understand what this dislocation means.
We do not mean to criticize participation in war as a disaster for ordinary people, but there have been so many wars in human history, and each time it was ordinary people who were harmed. Think of those who provoked on the brink of war, would they have such thoughts? Apparently not. And what we can do as ordinary people who can be ruthlessly affected by war is not to forget our sacrifices. When those delicate Boris's cousins are dismissive of Boris, don't forget that there are still too many Veronica in life who insist on waiting for their lover.
When we commemorate the war, what do we commemorate? We not only want to commemorate the victory, but at the same time, we also need to remember those who were lost in the war, they may be inconspicuous, but they are also part of the war, and the living should remember that the dead are not washed away by time.
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