After watching the French movie "The Wolf Song", I didn't think it was a war movie, and I even felt that the film recommendation was a bit inappropriate. The film continues the consistent speculative logic of French filmmakers, using the sea, submarines, torpedoes and nuclear weapons to convey to us a slightly heavy argument: in the context of future high-tech wars, people, even if they are talented and thoughtful and fair and brave, will be pale and powerless.
Unlike American films that focus on large-scale production, "The Wolf Song" begins by quoting the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's famous saying that "there are three kinds of people: the living, the dead, and the one who goes to sea", making the viewer fall into the fog of five miles.
The male protagonist, the young Titan submarine sonar soldier Chantelle, has a pair of surprisingly good ears and can quickly and clearly identify the underwater sounds of various submarines and weapons. But even with such talent, he still messed up while on the voyage. In the face of the sudden appearance of an enemy modified submarine, he had no idea at all, almost destroying the lives of hundreds of people on the boat! Fortunately, the captain of the ship, Glenshaw, made a decision when he was popularized, and he barely managed to complete the task and retreated. Upon his return to port, Chantley was suspended, while Captain Glenn Sharp and First Officer Dorsey were both promoted for their merits.
With the low point of the protagonist's fate, the film also began to enter a gentle narrative stage. Chantelle spared no effort to find out the information about the modified submarine, and finally found out that it was an old submarine that had been eliminated by the former Soviet Union. Glenn Sharp and Dorsey, as the two new captains, led the "Intrepid" and "Titan" submarines to the sea cruise successively. As for the ill-fated Chantley, he was supposed to be the most elite sonar soldier of the "Fearless" submarine under Glen Sharp's care, but because of the urine test, he was detected to have marijuana and was left in the military port with tears.
At this time, the plot peak turns! France monitored a Russian-made nuclear missile coming towards the mainland, and in line with the established nuclear strategy, the president ordered a nuclear counterattack against Russia by the cruised Dreadnought. Chantelle, who had followed the commander of the base into the war room, accidentally detected that the incoming missile was 20 percent lighter than its actual weight, an empty package. So the truth came out, it was the terrorists who bought and modified the dilapidated submarine in an attempt to provoke an apocalyptic showdown between the nuclear powers with a false shot!
However, the "Intrepid", under the command of Captain Glen Sharp, has entered a state of silence and is about to start a nuclear counterattack, and no one can stop the launch of the nuclear bomb! "I've been teaching my kids to follow the rules all my life, and now I'm trying to stop them." The guilt-ridden commander took Chantley to catch up with the titan submarine, which had not yet dived, and went with captain Dorsey to carry out the president's new order: either stop the launch of the nuclear bomb at any cost, or let the whole world be destroyed!
After approaching the Intrepid, Titan's captain, Dorsey, opens a communication channel and tries to contact Glen Sharp, but is unable to gain the trust of the other side. There was no way, the commander had to order an attack on the Intrepid. In a burst of wolf-like sirens, the two submarines and two teams of former comrades began to attack and defend. The Titan was sunk and the Intrepid was badly damaged, but the submarine's nuclear bombs were still in a state of readiness for launch.
At the moment of the first attack, the young Chantley said to Glenn Sharp through the voice channel that the two had a sharp wolf howl code, and finally won Glenn Sharp's trust. The badly injured captain pulled out the launch program board with all his strength at the last moment, preventing the nuclear bomb from firing.
At the moment when the Titan was about to sink to the bottom of the sea, Chantley was sent into a torpedo tube by the commander and finally floated to the surface of the sea to be rescued, and his gifted ears unfortunately lost his hearing...
At this time, I suddenly realized that the original phrase "there are three kinds of people: the living, the dead and the people who go to sea" refers to those submarine soldiers who go to sea to fight. Once dived into the deep sea for missions, they were in isolation.
Isolation from the world means that there is no miracle and no foreign aid, and everything can only be carried out according to the established procedures. Captain Glen Sharp's actions were beyond reproach, and when he received the order to carry out a nuclear strike, he immediately put the entire ship in silent confinement, and regarded everyone who accidentally broke in as a threat. He follows the procedures of nuclear strategy, and he can only go all out to complete the attack mission.
On the other hand, the commander, who always teaches his subordinates to act according to the rules, now has to personally intercept the subordinates who do things according to the rules, and still stop them at all costs, even if they must fire torpedoes at their subordinates! In the face of the rules, even though the commander once loved soldiers like sons, even though the two captains were deeply in love, even if Glen Sharp and Chantley were brothers and sisters, everything was weak and weak. They can only be confined by the rules, mechanically follow the rules, cold-bloodedly attack each other, and eventually lose both.
And the name of the movie itself, The Wolf Song, also contains a metaphor. It is both an attack alert from a submarine and a combat alert for its own attack. This wolf howls, representing both danger and salvation, like water, can carry a boat and overturn it. And the rules that can protect the submarine forces and destroy them are not another wolf song?
The blue sea and the submarine may be far away from us, but the rules of the Internet age with the unpredictable algorithm as the core are very close to us. In the face of high technology represented by artificial intelligence, many people who lack a background in computer science are afraid that they will also be in another isolated situation, even if they are full of talent, they will also look pale and powerless.