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10 years ago, it entered the Oscars, and it was banned from being released in China, but I cried global netizens: This is the war movie we need!
No one expected that after the opening of the Asian Games, the most popular was the couple:
The President of Syria and his wife.
When tourists excitedly say "hello beautiful" to First Lady Asma, she responds with a smile "You have a beautiful country",
When only 8 Syrian athletes appeared at the opening ceremony, as a welcome and support, the audience applauded for a long time.
Overnight, Syria, the country where the rose of Damascus bloomed, was revived between the words of the major media.
But wars broke out, walls fell, and now it has become a different look,
If there had been no war, it would have been as beautiful as Asma said.
With this, Xiangjun wants to share a movie - "Kumrange",
Countless war blockbusters in front, but it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with monotonous framing, plain plot, and cruelty of reality,
An orange grove, two old friends left behind, two wounded enemy soldiers,
The story, began.
An orange grove, and two old men
The Abkhaz war, which began in 1992, is shaking the lives of local people day by day.
Estonians who have lived in the Caucasus for more than a hundred years were forced to return to their ancestral homeland far north of Europe due to the outbreak of war,
The village was empty, and only a few chose to stay.
Ivo, an old carpenter over seventy, and Magus, the owner of the orangery, are the only two remaining villagers.
Magus was busy picking oranges, and he felt sorry for this golden orchard, rotting in the mountains where no one cared,
Ivo was busy making wooden boxes for his old friend's oranges, tired and resting, taking a bite of bread, just a slice of cheese, listening to front-line reports on the radio.
Silent life, after the break-in of two Chechens, pinched out the keyframe,
The sound of artillery fire came from the hillside, and the old carpenter ran to see the tilted vehicles and the remains on display,
The faint moan in his ears was that of Ahmed, a Chechen who had previously begged for food.
After settling the Chechens, the carpenter and old friends returned to the incident and buried the remains,
Fortunately, another surviving soldier was found during the removal,
Unfortunately, he is Nikka, a Georgian from the hostile camp of Chechnya.
Two "enemies", living under one roof,
Ahmed, a Chechen man, is a rough man, but also a man of great love, who joined mercenaries to support his family,
Nikka, a Georgian, full of ambition to serve the country, rushed to the front without concealing her mother,
As soon as the two looked at each other, they were at each other's throats.
Fortunately, there were carpenters from it, and the Chechens promised:
"I would never kill him in this room."
But the bridge where the two choke each other is like a schoolboy competing for a beloved toy,
The war of words that began early has become the way the two get along.
Time flies quickly, and the two go from fighting each other, intending to kill each other,
To sit at a table, drink and eat meat, talk and laugh,
There is an impressive clip:
The Chechen walked out of the bedroom after worshiping, and the Gerunian immediately put the cross on his chest into the inside of his clothes, and the Chechen said to him, "It doesn't have to be so",
Look, respect between people, it's that simple.
Until a group of Russian soldiers appeared, the plot came to an end,
from the suspicion of Russian soldiers, wrench the wrench of the gun,
After only one minute of shootout, several lives were taken, and the story seemed to return to the beginning, leaving only two carpenters and Chechen mercenaries in the village.
An old carpenter, and two soldiers
In the Caucasus there is an old proverb:
"One shot fired, but the sound of the gun can echo through the mountains for centuries."
The director's shooting method of "seeing the big with the small" coincides with this proverb,
The small Estonian village, the few actors who appeared, neither gorgeous special effects, no big scenes, nor preaching,
And the protagonist's attitude towards war is superior.
An orange grove that seems to be "isolated from the world" carries the kindness and simplicity of human nature.
The sun swept over the top of the mountain, and the orange grove on the mountain was a yellow as far as the eye could see.
Once upon a time, this was the hope for many people in the village to earn a living.
A wooden house that has lived for three generations, full of shadows of the good life of the past,
The small teapot on the stove, the various teacups in the cabinet, the lively curtains and sofas in the room,
Once upon a time, this was the place where the old carpenter enjoyed his old age.
In a simple woodworking room, hope can be knocked out, and death can also usher in,
For the first time, the camera focuses on the hands of the old carpenter, who is making wooden boxes for oranges,
The second time the camera focuses on the hands of the old carpenter, who is making a coffin for the deceased.
Whenever the camera leaves the orchard and the house, the picture falls into a gray tone,
This implies that the shadow of war hangs over every inch of people's lives,
War replaces lights, explosions act as trumpets of death,
In the end, ordinary people became victims of conflict.
There are several dialogues between carpenters and soldiers in the film, which are powerful calls that the director intends to convey to the audience.
Carpenter: "Young man, what's wrong with you?" Keep saying 'I'm going to kill... I'm going to kill...'Who gave you the power to do that?' ”
Chechens: "War." ”
Carpenter: "That's stupid! ”
In those days, someone was Chechen, and someone was a Gerunya,
They prided themselves as intellectual youths, read poetry books, and had a deep understanding of history.
But he has never thought about the meaning of war, nor has he recognized the cruelty of war,
They became cannon fodder for politics, and to death they were immersed in self-serving heroism.
At the end of the story, the carpenter buried the dead Gruña next to his son,
The Chechens asked the carpenter: "How did the son die?" ”，
The carpenter said: "He went to the battlefield early and said he wanted to defend our homeland, and I told him it was not anyone's war, but he didn't listen. ”
In the end, the carpenter's son died at the gunpoint of the Grunia, but he was buried here with the Gruña.
To the old carpenters, they were all people who were mercilessly burned by the flames of war.
At the end of the film, the Chechens drove their car, listened to the tapes that Grunia had been repaired all day before his life, and embarked on the road home,
The tape shows "A Paper Boat" sung by legendary poet singer Irakli Charkviani.
Chechens set foot on the land with hostility and slowly drove away with friendship.
Kumquats still hang on the branches,
The carpenter still guarded the wooden house,
In the coming year, the orangery will still bear new fruit,
Will peace come in the coming year?
What kind of war films do we need?
In recent years, more and more movies containing elements of war have appeared,
From "Wolf Warrior", "Operation Red Sea", "Changjin Lake" ... To the recently released "Volunteers",
War films have repeatedly set new box office highs, giving the industry a wind.
So, what is a war film that is really needed?
It can be like the Soviet Union's "War and Peace", pouring the power of the country into the co-production,
It took five years to complete, the film lasted 7 hours, mobilized 130,000 troops to participate in the show, and cost 560 million US dollars.
Tell people what is a "war movie" under real history.
It can also be like "No War on the Western Front", the story comes from the pen of a real warrior,
It is recorded that thousands of young Germans, carrying guns, singing, rushing into battle, in the name of the noble,
Finally, at the best of years, die in the most painful way.
Films can be cut, history can be embellished,
And the bloody reality remains.
I have carefully read the descriptions of the survivors of the war,
It is the death of relatives in front of the eyes, the humiliation of compatriots, the muzzle of the bottomless gun aimed again and again, the screaming and crying all over the mountains,
When blood explodes in front of your eyes, when you are overwhelmed mentally and physically,
Fall, wake up, but in the "sea of people" of corpses.
Kosova once said, "Only through war can you truly know the meaning of peace."
More and more "Saving Private Ryan" and "Modern Apocalypse" appear, and their practical significance is to tell people the true face of the ugliness of war,
In this era of peace, the greatest significance of a qualified war film is "anti-war",
"Anti-war" is anti-"militants", anti-"war fanaticism", and "blind heroism". （JOY）
"History has told us countless times that people's indignation at war does not prevent war from coming.
And people cheer war, war will surely come. ”
- Tang Yishui
(Excerpted from WeChat public account Puxiang Industrial Design Station)