Too many details brushed must be incomplete, contrast, metaphor, tribute to the water to come to fruition, many Easter eggs to be excavated by the audience.
The intention of remembering history is far more than the past, 70 years ago we fought in the ice and snow, 70 years later, in the movie, the background repeatedly read reports, banners, stone inscriptions on the horizontal and vertical are written "We must recover Taiwan." From north to south, from black to white, thousands of miles to join the army and not let the family's two acres and three points of land, my generation still needs to work hard.
This film did not focus on cutting the audience's tear glands, only to hold the long flow of cavity blood. There is humor in tension, playfulness in blood, liveliness in tragedy, laughter and anger in flesh and blood.
The most lovely people are not cute because of sacrifice, but if there is no bullying to fight, life is originally lovely.
Overall, the configuration of the film Changjin Lake from screenwriter to director to actor has enabled everyone involved in the creation of the team to play their own strengths in the right position, Chen Kaige's scenery, literary drama, Xu Ke's storyboarding, chivalry, Lin Chaoxian's explosion and action, set up in Lan Xiaolong's small-sighted growth war thinking and Wang Shuzeng's tragic richness, it is very reasonable and comfortable to see in terms of rhythm and the relaxation of the distance and proximity. The large section of explosive fighting, pitch and upward beat combined with the oppressive feeling of the US aircraft missiles, the volunteer army was suppressed by fire several times and dispersed to the final general attack, roaring out of all sides, facing the cold equipment and powerful and dense firepower to play a variety of wisdom.
The command decisions of General Peng and Commander Song, the race against time for Secretary Liu to rescue the large-scale map, the melee combat of Wu Qianli and Yu Congrong, the suppression of Lei Suisheng's artillery platoon, the long-range sniping of Pinghe, Mei Sheng's foreign language and arithmetic behind enemy lines, Wu Wanli's transformation from a recruit's egg breaking shell to a qualified soldier, from seeing the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland in the quiet years along the way to seeing that teenagers of the same age as himself have not yet arrived at the battlefield, becoming a wreckage, from starting to point a gun at his brother. The mischievous and willfulness of smashing Lei Gong with a shell casing to the first time when facing the threat of death... The people of the Seventh Company did not teach him much, and the life and death, blood and fire, beauty and ugliness he saw on his own were enough for him to understand from the simplest of killing 20 enemies to the hero to what war, what was a hero, what was the hero's motherland and where I grew up.
In the past, there was a close-up of Wu Qianli as a son returning home, and then there was a close-up of the instructor as a father watching his son go to the battlefield. Although one is in a small fishing village in Huzhou, one is in the capital of Zhongnanhai, Wu Qianli just went off the battlefield, Mao Anying asked to fight, they all have siblings, or ashes, or trapped in a different place, or even only exist in the lines, and then there is Secretary Liu, there is also Wu Wanli. The heroes and children of the whole world share a guardian heart, which is clearly stated in The line of Mao Anying in the film, and the parents of the whole world, whether they are silently watching and crying in a small boat, or pacing back and forth in the snow, are the same. The son sets off, and the father watches at the door; the son sacrifices, and from the indoor perspective, he sees the father's paused back through the glass window. The great man's "human" side between father and son is revealed, and the tears of the stars and tears are softened at a glance. More than Wu Wanli had asked alone, but Secretary Liu had no name after all, did not come from anywhere, and only left three sentences on the fragment of the notebook.
Wu Wanli, who would be frightened when he saw the signal flares and lying on the body when he was hidden, then saw the living comrades around him being strafed. Seeing the missiles coming at him from the enlarged pupils of his comrades, he may have a chance to find cover again, but a single move will expose all the soldiers who are still alive... Before the moment of life and death, they did not want to shoot. When Wu Wanli was at home, he hung a long life lock around his neck, the most simple wish of his parents. Zhang Xiaoshan also had a pendant hanging around his neck, a secret that he did not have time to share with Wu Wanli, who was about the same age as himself, and probably related to his family, and later this secret was taken into the pocket of Wu Wanli's left breast and became wanli's secret.
He was the only one in Lei Gong's family, and the US military still wanted to go home and spend the holiday with his family. The U.S. army on Thanksgiving big fish and meat, the dishes are not stingy with a full spoon, some people want to cut in line to add vegetables, squeezed out by others, the U.S. soldiers said grievously , "I just want a piece of cured meat", and the volunteers in the sleeping sleep of the marching train heard the meal and eat the bun can wake up excitedly and bump their heads, in the ice and snow valley a small potato with broken teeth can pour a few hands, a little softer to keep to others - they can even play around a potato gag, bitter and happy. It can be seen that simple tragedy is not enough to interpret their spirit, in the end it is still optimistic and hopeful, with a beautiful vision and hope for the future, to eat inhuman hardships. As the film says, "Sacrifice is not worth showing off", and who doesn't want to survive and live a peaceful and stable life unless it is a last resort?
At that time, the gap in armaments was objective and passive, similar to what Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli said: When we go to the battlefield, do we have to tell the enemy that the enemy is strong and we are weak and bully people? But fighting tanks and planes in the flesh is not a meat shield to send a human head, not a fool who does not measure up to his own strength, compared to courage, what is more cute is the intelligent and clever learning ability of the volunteer army. Fortunately, Mei Sheng taught himself English, Yu Congrong had groped and driven in the tanks he had captured before, and Wu Wanli had started from hitting water drifts, cold weapons, and empty grenades that were not accurate in time. Personally, I don't think the plot of the tank is exaggerated, reality is always more dramatic than drama, the first batch of pilots in New China were still taught by Japanese prisoners of war, and the war was not skilled and hardened on the scalp, just like Liu Yudi and a number of outstanding pilots and fighters.
In addition to the comparison of the logistics conditions such as thanksgiving dinner and the buns in the dream, the potatoes with broken teeth, etc., we can also see the disparity in the initial equipment preparation, in addition to the aircraft and tanks, the number of radio stations that the volunteers are difficult to escort is already cramped, coupled with the losses on the way, it is easy not to expose, and the US army still has spare leisure and elegance to listen to Christmas songs. In contrast to this, Mei Sheng brought out from home the items he participated in the war, was a recent photo of his daughter who rushed to take before leaving, talking about the expedition, it was his wife who accompanied him to ride a bicycle all the way to send each other, crying while riding, and seven consecutive kills to the US military camp, people's walls are pasted with sexy advertising girls' pictorials. At least it can be seen that the US military is entertained, relaxed, and unimpressed when it goes to war, and a wordless detail can reflect the contempt of the other side more than talking about collecting troops before the festival: There is fierce firepower leaning over, and beating you is not like playing?
Therefore, the glance that Lei Gong glanced into the Barrel of the US Army before sacrificing, novelty and envy, across the screen, saw the fear of insufficient firepower suffered from in later generations. But he didn't have time to see the caliber of the cannon now, and he didn't have a chance to touch the barrel of his own tank. When he pounced on the hot and smoking logo bomb, it was as if he saw not a fictional character, but Huang Jiguang, who was throwing the muzzle of the gun, and Qiu Shaoyun, who endured the fire, and exhaled for them through the mouth of Lei Gong, shouting pain for them. Just like Wu Baili, who lives in the line, said to Wu Qianli, "Help me", the two plots also sandwich the paragraph "Where there is a hero who cannot die". Putting heroes into people is a living mortal flesh. It responds to the long-standing controversy between the suffering flesh and the iron will: they are not contradictory and cannot coexist. On the contrary, because the skin of the body born and nurtured by the father and mother will hurt, bleed, and die, it is even more respectable that the spiritual will is beyond the physical pain in extreme cases.
The hero is not deliberately out of the way, from Yang Gensi who rushes with explosives to every sacrificed unknown soldier, from the shock of the Japanese army in reality when he cut open Yang Jingyu's stomach to the US military in the movie to salute the soldiers frozen into ice sculptures, the real hero is to make a living without fear of going to the door of death. Therefore, under the influence of his ears, Wu Wanli's growth changed from letting his brother who had been "bullying" himself to letting the enemy look up to himself, from defending the field he had been assigned to his family to guarding the picturesque country. As a war film, Chosin Lake not only filmed a grand scene of explosion, but also refined in the cruelty of a person's soul that is not distorted by the war, and every step of progress is clearly visible.