Looking back on 2016, it is undoubtedly a big year for horror films, and wave after wave of high-quality horror films has poured out. Even the domestic horror films that have been criticized have also produced the word-of-mouth masterpiece "Middle Evil".
Many people know that last year was a big year for horror movies, but they don't necessarily notice that it was also a big year for war movies.
The Academy Awards, the world's most watched film award, announced the top nine best foreign-language films late last month, from which the final five films will be selected this month.
There are three war films in the list of the nine finalists, which account for one-third of the quota. They are "Minefields" in Denmark, "The King's Choice" in Norway and "War Paradise" in Russia.
"Minefield" is the top three of Douban's 2016 unpopular films, and "King's Choice" won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Unfortunately, at present, only cooked meat has been produced in mined areas.
Judging from the competition for the Oscar foreign language film, the war film of 2016 should not be underestimated. This is indeed the case, although there were not many war films last year, but the quality was generally better, and the angle of entry was also full of flowers.
Unlike the domestic war film "My War", nothing but war dramas will not be known, and it is not good to play. The facialized characters basically have no emotional interaction, like pulling a line puppet in turn, from the beginning to the end, beating my visual fatigue.
After "The King's Choice" and "War Heaven", which are not yet cooked, we have selected the best eight war films of the year.
They are based on the theme or background of war, and they are cooked meat films this year, and each one has a different angle of entry, or even a unique path.
8. Operation Apes
Based on true events, Operation Apes is an operation code name for the assassination of senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
(1) The members of the action team questioned, feared and contradicted the assassination plan, and de-heroized; (2) because the assassination angered the Nazis, the Nazis frantically slaughtered innocent people and fell into a human dilemma; (3) the collision of betrayal and morality; (4) the origin of International Children's Day.
7. East Pillar
If it can't change the world, what use is literature? This is an anti-war film that takes the biography or literature as the starting point.
(1) Director Li Maoyi is also the director of Suyuan, the camera is more restrained, not casually sensational; (2) black and white films, as light as water but undercurrents; (3) life is not only in front of the eyes, but also poetry and far away.
6. The innocent
In a Monastery in Poland, the observant nuns lived through the Nazi period in Germany, the aggression of the Red Army, and even the nuns became pregnant. From a female perspective, she uses what french red cross physicians have seen and heard to lash out at nazism, communism, and religion.
(1) Avoided the bloody scene of rape and downplayed the tragedy; (2) the nuns were persecuted by the war and suffered by faith; (3) the abbot did something inhuman for the so-called reputation, the so-called faith; (4) the awakening of female consciousness; (5) the heroine was slightly virgin, and her appearance was extra.
5. Rip Hagen
Irony is of human nature that can be sold everywhere, and the wicked have no evil retribution.
Rip hagen was greedy and did all kinds of bad things, playing nazis, Jews, and underground organizations to applaud and amass wealth from them. After the war, he went unpunished with a huge fortune and never tried his life.
Based on the real adaptation, the real is inhuman, the good people are killed because of the good, and the bad people are free because of the evil.
4. Remember
The two survivors of Auschwitz, now in their twilight years, want to take revenge on the camp administrators who have harmed their families before entering the coffin, for tat. One of the elderly suffers from elderly dementia, sometimes awake and sometimes confused. Another old man provided him with an action plan to arrange everything. The two work together for revenge.
Some Nazis did not change the fanatical genes in their bones because of the judgment of history, nor did they spare the fanatics because of historical forgiveness.
It's a collision of forgiveness and revenge, self-examination in the process of hunting. More importantly, it is still weaving a large web of suspense, giving you a reversal of the critical blow, flying down three thousand feet of tension.
Remember: don't look at spoilers, don't look at reviews, otherwise, leaked.
3. Billy Lynn's Halftime War
A small number of people eat 120 frames of ultra-high frame number of head soup, eating melon masses can only watch envy.
Killing people on the streets is a criminal, killing people on the battlefield is a hero, and Billy Lynn seems to have heroic treatment as well.
Everyone has his own attitude toward war, some people are highly respected, some people are hippie smiley faces, some people are disdainful, and even punch him in the face. The so-called heroic treatment is nothing more than a feast that is packaged. When the value of the hero is quantified and there is no bottom line depreciation, this shameful wrapping paper has long been in ruins.
Flashbacks and lines take up a lot of space, leaving not much room for my emotions, a bit like cutscenes. With the same large number of flashbacks, Captain Sully's rhythm point is well grasped, and my emotions will not be dissipated by repeated flashbacks, and I will be tense because of it.
I don't think Billy Lynn edited well enough, but the calm and solid narrative still gave me a delicate and nuanced look.
Billy Lynn is no longer a hero, just a living person, and the midfield is the symbol of his transformation from boy to man.
2. Minefields
According to the real adaptation, after the end of World War II, more than 2,000 German prisoners of war, most of them teenagers, were taken to the west coast of Denmark and forced to dig out more than 1.5 million mines with their bare hands, nearly half of them dead or disabled.
Unlike the common bomb disposal scenes in police films, they can be fully armed, they only have flesh and blood, dismantling one piece of landmine after another with their bare hands, and the flesh and blood that are blown up at any time are flying. The Danish military also took the opportunity to dig mines to kill them. They were better off dead than pigs and dogs, and as one German prisoner said, it would be better to pull them straight to the wall and shoot them.
Germany was both the scourge of World War II and the defeated country of World War II. Take the mistreatment of German prisoners of war by the victorious Denmark as an entry point to stimulate your nerves, what is justice and what is evil. The point is that the producers also have Denmark and face the dark history. There is also the horror of digging mines, nervous and desperate, and every explosion is the disability or death of a teenager.
The narrative is clean and crisp, with no extra shots. Beatings, hunger, disease, deception, humiliation, conflict, suicide and death, a steady stream of conflict brings with it feelings of repression and despair.
One of the top nine Oscar foreign language films.
1. Hacksaw Ridge
He is a medic soldier, and because of his faith, he only saves people and does not kill people. Refusing to carry offensive weapons, he shuttled across the battlefield, saving one wounded man after another, and finally being able to retreat. It's a miracle no matter how you look at it, but it's a real miracle.
How to make the miracle convincing?
Mel Gibson didn't do that. The protagonist's aura is so dazzling that I have several times thought of the protagonist as a hanging James Bond, or simply said to himself that he believes in God, so he does not get shot. If it weren't for the real adaptation, if it weren't for the documentary Easter egg, I wouldn't have been convinced that I would have opened my life like this.
However, life is even more unimaginable than the movie, and it is true that this is not true!
Moreover, Mel Gibson filmed the battle scene very explosively, and the large-scale bloody height restored the living battlefield. Every frame of battle is a super five-star texture, a naked cruelty.
When Feng Yuxiang described the Battle of Songhu, he said: "Our troops, every day one division after another is thrown into the battlefield, some of them die in less than three hours, some of them die in five hours, and some of them die two-thirds of the way in five hours. ”
Hacksaw Ridge in blood war shoots a brutal scene of melting like a melting pot.
This year, the most disappointing thing is the comfort women-themed "Ghost Town". When the resources are not yet out, it has been boasted that it is going to heaven. As a result, as netizens said, it was half successful in shooting, but unfortunately it was half successful.
Hacksaw Ridge (Faith), Minefield (Captive), Billy Lynn's Halftime War (Growing), Remember (Revenge), Rip Hagen (Evil Retribution), Innocent (Religion), East Pillar (Literature), Operation Apes (Assassination), 2016 War Film (Anti-War Film) Performance really made me look sideways!