#Film and television miscellaneous talk #Before watching "Chosin Lake", with a relaxed and pastime mentality, after watching the movie, there is something solid in my heart, what is not clear, I feel that it is not easy to Chinese to today, and all the tribulations make us proud as Chinese. "Chosin Lake" was filmed for Chinese, for the heroes who have passed away, and even more for the world and the future. It is not only a movie, but also a mirror, a mirror that can see history and the future.
It is very curious how the three directors Chen Kaige, Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian will present the Battle of Chosin Lake. Film is art, and telling history with characters and light and shadow is what I want to see the most. At the same time, I will also encounter my own problems, how to write my own movie-watching feelings. Two problems in me, can be seen as one problem, try to restore my eyes of "Chosin Lake".
Going back to the beginning, we have to answer the question of why was the war fought? No, no, no. Mao Zedong and his comrades-in-arms talked all night long, and in the face of a new China that was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, no one wanted to fight this war against multinational forces, and the United States was recognized as a military power. A nation always has some important junctures and historical moments, testing the leaders of the time, forcing them to make decisions and make up their minds, and such a moment as the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is such a moment. Mao Zedong said that if this battle is not fought, the Western powers will think that China is weak and can be bullied, and only by striking a heavy iron fist can they prove themselves. This punch in 1950 bought more than 70 years of peace for New China and created stable external conditions and foundations for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Mei Shang, the instructor of the Seventh Company, said, "We fight to make children stop fighting, and our sacrifice is to let the next generation not sacrifice." ”
The question is, how to win this war? The Americans would not obediently retreat to line 38, and they would burn the war to the Yalu River in a vain attempt to end the war within a few months. Chinese The People's Volunteers made MacArthur's pre-Christmas remarks about returning to the Dynasty in vain, and they also paid a heavy price and a huge sacrifice. In 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army had just come out of the flames of war and smoke, and once again went to the battlefield to fight to the death with the US army armed to the teeth. This was originally an asymmetrical war of great disparity in strength, but the Chinese Volunteer Army fought for decades of peace for New China. At that time, the US army launched an all-out attack on land, sea and air, and a company of the volunteer army only had a dozen small mountain guns, and the enemy was strong and we were weak, and there was a huge disparity in equipment. We can only adopt a flexible strategy and tactics to win victory by encircling and attacking with large armies. It was the generation of equipment that made the volunteers pay a heavy price. In the extremely cold weather of minus 40 degrees, the volunteer army lacked clothing and food, the supply line was blocked by the US Air Force, the soldiers only had to fill the hunger with potatoes, and the US army had a steady stream of logistics to support the operation. In order to achieve a sneak raid and achieve strategic victory, many volunteer soldiers did not fall under the guns of the US army, but froze in the snow and dense forest, maintaining a charging posture until death.
In the ranks of thousands of volunteers, Mao Anying withheld his name, entered the Korean War, and unfortunately died. The sacrifice of the son of a president of a country on the front line of the war represents the determination of an ordinary soldier to win, from the commander-in-chief of the country to the determination of an ordinary soldier to win. As soon as Wu Qianli, the commander of the Seventh Company, appeared on the scene, he held the ashes of his elder brother Wu Baili (who died in the Liberation War), the Korean War, and his nineteen-year-old brother Wu Wanli also entered the Korean War with him. Wu Wanli is a new recruit, like every audience member who watches the movie, does not know, what does war mean? With the help of Wu Wanli's eyes, the audience saw the bloody and cold battlefield. There were no cotton coats, no radios, no equipment, no back-up, no food, and at the beginning of the war, the conditions were extremely harsh, but the volunteers were full of courage and determination. The sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms and the brutal war inspired the fighting spirit and bloodiness of Wu Wanli, making him quickly become a soldier who was not afraid of death. There is no natural tough guy, no soldier who is not afraid of death, between a thought, a line of life and death, greed, or glory, a person must make a choice.
What is war? It is a bloody politics, a contest of wills. The highest praise of war for soldiers is justice and peace, and only death can be exchanged for peace and tranquility.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "The Korean War was a wrong war in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy." The never-ageing Veteran of American Politics, Évrier Harriman, said of the war, "A bitter war." Harry Truman stubbornly insisted that the Korean War was nothing more than a "police operation," and even when the U.S. casualty toll crossed the 50,000 mark, he said it was an annoying word game.
The smoke of the Korean War has dissipated, but the form of the war has not disappeared because of the end of a war, and the great power game is playing out in different forms. "Chosin Lake" recreates the tragic scenes of history, and history will only be more cruel than the movie picture. The narrative of "Chosin Lake" has been restrained to some extent, 190,000 volunteer soldiers have left us, the director and screenwriter have let Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli brothers survive, and the hope of life brings us more comfort and courage.
For an army, steel and gas are indispensable, for a person, steel more gas, less steel gas, is not the best state, if you make a choice between steel and gas, a person is living in one breath.
"We have fought all the battles that should be fought, and our descendants will not have to fight any more." In the past 71 years of the Battle of Chosin Lake, the heroism of the volunteer army has always been there, and the spirit of the Chinese nation will always exist.
"It's bustling and prosperous, as you think."