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What's the use of war? Absolutely not - well, except for movies. Military conflict has become the background of many great movies, including some of the best movies ever made. This is not surprising. Few events are the natural channels for drama, suspense, terror, heroism and the examination of human conditions.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
With 1957's Road to Glory, Stanley Kubrick released one of the sharpest anti war statements in the great war movie. Obviously, the world has not received this information. So thirty years later, he decided to speak out for the imperialists behind him. From the First World War to Vietnam, Kubrick not only described the terror of the battlefield - he condemned the whole war machine itself. It is no accident that the first half of the war movie is set in basic training, which is more nightmarish than the subsequent bombing and firefight. Like the soldiers themselves, desensitization is the key. Once you stare at the empty eyes of Vincent Donofrio's tortured Private Pyle, who has reached the end, the more objective atrocities in the military conflict seem like walking in tulips. Of course, until you have to look at the "enemy" in their eyes.
Fires on the Plain (1959)
This unabashed portrayal of the collapse of the Japanese imperial army in 1945 initially got the green light of the great Daiei Film in its studio, because it misunderstood that it would be an action film. And, to be fair, if you observe carefully, there is at least one actual combat scene. But on the whole, the director Shikawa faithfully brought the veteran Shohei Ō Oka's novel is portrayed as a broken soldier suffering from tuberculosis who trudges wearily in a hellish landscape. Critics at that time believed that this was a vision too dim to digest, but it had evolved into an anti war classic, full of bright humanity and dull wit. Charlie Chaplin's lens, a pair of disintegrated military boots worn from one foot to the other, like any picture on the screen, is a metaphor for the degradation effect of war.It is a good war movie worth watching again.
They Were Expendable (1945)
This kind of war movie can force you to change your view of the whole career - even decades of work - this hard, unobtrusive portrait of a Filipino soldier has a quiet influence from a small, sharp observation moment. Our heroes, mainly junior lieutenants of John Wayne, spent a short time in Manila, waiting for combat missions. Of course, they didn't realize it was a good time. When the news of Pearl Harbor attack came, the tone changed to a stoic ode to the workers' sacrifice. Director John Ford, usually a sentimental person behind the camera, controls his impulses, while Wayne (still closer to dew at this time) shows the depth that has not been excavated.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Between this war movie and director Catherine Bigelow's follow-up work, Thirty Years of Zero Darkness, we conducted two of the best modern studies on what it means to fight in today's confusing war on terror. The Hurt Locker has the most advantage. It deeply discusses the process of Iraq's bomb dismantlement and the personal detachment caused by putting oneself in danger every hour.
The Steel Helmet (1951)
It takes great courage to make a war movie (not just a propaganda film) while the real war is still going on. Fortunately for the audience of this Korean war drama - about a group of soldiers who dodge bickering in a Buddhist temple - its screenwriter and director is Samuel Fuller, who himself is a combat veteran. Hollywood must look like a piece of cake after being shot.
Das Boot (1981)
Wolfgang Peterson's U-boat masterpiece goes far beyond its era as a full-length TV series (it was partially funded by the German Broadcasting Corporation and recently successfully transformed into a small screen). Like the oil on the boatswain's rag, it stubbornly endures the form of a three hour war movie. Riding shotguns with young divers under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in the form of a hellish blockade, with all the fear, pain and comradeship, is still a maddening and stressful experience.
Come and See (1985)
In the horrible World War II epic about Nazi occupation of Belarus by the Russian director Elem Klimov, you may want to divert your attention. However, it weaves a fascinating spell from the opening image of two children digging abandoned rifles in the field. One of the boys was taken from his home by guerrillas to fight the Germans. This is the beginning of a nine circle hell adventure, which ends with a dreamlike encounter with the ultimate persecutor. But before that end, we suffered a series of shocking atrocities (deafening explosions, bodies piled up like mountains, and a village was systematically destroyed), which would have been unbearable if it had not been for the film's fascinating, almost surreal aesthetics.