"Praise me for being the pride of Jewish women."

Putting his hands in Ryan's ear, Natalie lowered her voice, "If the film is OK, they will support me this awards season."

"This is a good thing." Ryan nodded slightly, "Dear, if nothing unexpected happens, your biggest opponent will be James Cameron."

"I met Jim last week." Natalie obviously disagreed, "He doesn't think he will win the award, even if Avatar is as successful as you expected."

The lights in the theater suddenly went out, and the mark of the release party Miramax appeared on the screen. Ryan didn't continue to say anything. In fact, James Cameron no longer cared about the little golden man. The weight of the Oscar best director is probably not even important in the mind of the King of the World.

Cameron himself also knows that such science fiction films made entirely in CG will not be favored by Oscars.

However, Disney will still make public relations for "Avatar", because that can increase the commercial benefits of the film to a certain extent, and the focus of public relations is definitely not the best director.

In his past and present life, "Avatar"'s biggest Oscar rival has kicked off on the big screen.

The bomb disposal team of B Company is composed of three people. In one mission, they sacrificed the bomb disposal captain, so the protagonist of the film James joined in. James is a man with a heroic complex. He is not afraid of his own death at all. He does not follow the operating procedures at all. He always dismantles the bomb alone, and even takes risks to take off the bomb disposal suit again and again for the convenience of movement.

James is not in a state of prayer like his teammates like terrified fear and "We survive today". He is more like a crazy technical expert. When he comes to a bunch of bombs, he dares to give up all safety measures to be more focused.

This guy seemed to regard dangerous work as a car repair, just as hackers were obsessed with online technology, and he was obviously "obsessed" with bomb disposal process. When people had already evacuated around the bomb and could safely detonate it, James refused to evacuate. For the safety of his comrades and the lives and property of the Iraqi people, he always insisted on removing the bomb.

It is certain that during the bomb disposal process, James gained a strong pleasure. When he finished dismantling the bomb and returned to the Hummer to light a cigarette, his expression was as if he had just finished having sex. He was tired and satisfied.

Perhaps James is really not afraid of death, but this person who is not afraid of self-death is touched by the death of others during the mission, including the US military comrades and Iraqis. The deaths of these people have given him an indelible impression, and over time, it has affected his psychology and behavior.

When James faced an enemy he could not see, he fought a war with whom he didn't know who to fight. All this made him feel a little overwhelmed. But the heroism unique to the Americans in his bones made him want to make everything in front of him through his own efforts, because on this seemingly illusory battlefield, the casualties of his comrades were real.

Let’s talk about this kind of heroism. When a person has firm beliefs, a clear sense of self, and at the same time shows courage and courage beyond ordinary people in his actions, and achieves achievements that benefit the group, people say that his behavior is heroic.

This is one of the positions of the film. Although the image of the US military is not tall, and is even weak like those Iraqis, it is extremely positive. This may be different from the way of "Transformers" to show the strength of the US military, but in essence, there is not much difference.

Because they are all shaping the positive image of the US military.

Of course, these are the basic positions of the film, and it is covered with "reflection".

The film uses documentary shooting techniques, and the shaking camera lenses bring a real Iraqi battlefield. There are terrified American soldiers and ants everywhere. In the middle of the war, everyone is weak.

American soldiers armed to the teeth may board a "Turkey Plane" at any time; Iraqi militants also easily fell to death under the guns of the US military; and it goes without saying that any small conflict between the two sides is enough to crush them.

Perhaps he is indeed unable to achieve the big scenes of war movies. Natalie obviously used more literary and casual narrative techniques in the film, and showed the clips through James' eyes, but they were truly suffocating.

The bomb disposalist who died at the beginning was Natalie showing the audience the correct bomb disposal procedure, and through the demonstration of the formal procedure, it left a reference for James' crazy "personal heroism" behavior after his appearance.

The death of the bomb disposalist is actually Natalie's own opening remark. She first broke people's usual movie-watching psychology and made a solemn statement that everyone is weak in the face of war. There is no Steve Rogers on the real battlefield, and there is no Rambo who has not been killed dozens of times.

In the death of the bounty hunter, the hunter leader's style was extremely cool. Putting aside his fierce outfit, the Barrett sniper in his hand alone can kill a large number of movies. According to the conventional film thinking, this is another superhero who can sweep all war movies without any fighting.

But a few minutes later, the cool hunter leader was shot by the Iraqi people and once again showed the cruelty of the war to the audience.

In the subsequent death of the medical officer, the psychiatrist in James's army was about to go out to give the bomb disposal team practical help, so he found the James team who was about to attend and asked to go on a mission together.

Unfortunately, a soil bomb killed the colonel.

The same thing is said, in the face of war, official titles and positions are not signs that the god of death let you go. After the colonel was killed, a soldier rushed over and shouted in pain, "I was just teaching him how to use the radio..."

If a person's life is gone, he will die, even if he is still bragging together for a minute.

Natalie used the camera to tell the audience that war was so cold and ruthlessly!

In the death of "Beckham", James completely admitted that he was wrong with "Beckham" who sold DVDs. He thought he knew Iraqis better than other Americans and could make friends with Iraqis. In fact, in the end he was no different from other Americans. They couldn't even tell who Iraqis were, even the Iraqis who lived with him day and night.

Americans look at Iraqis, Iraqis look at Americans, Westerners look at Easterners, and Easterners look at Westerners. In fact, in everyone's eyes, people of the other race are the same, and it is difficult to distinguish clearly. This is estrangement. This estrangement that transcends races is like a dispute between belief and ideology, and will never disappear.

Here, Natalie obviously changed the script, and through what James said - Americans don't know what Iraqis want, and Iraqis don't bother letting Americans know what they want - is probably a great portrayal of this situation.

Under the war, children are the weakest ones who are the first to be blasted. Although "Beckham" is still alive, the children who are lying there as corpse bombs are real.

Although the whole film tends to be realistic and plain, there are also "human bombs".

An Iraqi man took the initiative to ask the US military patrol for help, saying that he had a bomb tied up on his body, but he did not want to be a "human bomb" and begged the US military to save him.

This is a time bomb, and only two minutes left for James. James races against time to dispose of the bomb. According to the usual mode of movies around the world, James will inevitably cut the red or blue line to save Iraqi civilians at the last second, and then a military-civilian party will occur.

However, time has not come to an end, and James did not choose the red line or the blue line, so he gave up bomb disposal. The Iraqis were blown into powder. James was overturned by air waves while escaping. Natalie once again shattered the audience's luxury with a cruel ending. This is war, war is not making movies.

This situation is not only the audience's hope, but also the box office of the film. It would be strange if such a cold movie could be sold well.

The situation of the world welcoming American soldiers did not appear. When James evacuated, the Iraqi children followed the Hummer Jeep to throw stones, and James was unable to adapt to his life after returning to China and returned to the Iraqi battlefield.

The intersecting response of these two fragments, war has become an irresistible curse, not only irresistible, but also irresistible.

In the hearts of Iraq's descendants, the seeds of hatred have been planted and sprouted and bear fruit at any time in the years to come. The American soldiers have been trapped in war and cannot adapt to a normal peaceful life, as if war has become the only meaning of their existence.

Both sides are victims, and there is no distinction between strength and weakness. They are driven by a curse called "war"...

As a director, Natalie did not make a moral judgment on war directly in the movie, did not arouse the audience's humanitarian sympathy through the cruelty of the war scenes, nor did she create dramatic scenes to satirize the reasons why the United States launched the war.

Of course, she would not "stand" on Iraq's standpoint and look at the war in front of her from their perspective.

Natalie grasped the most important point very well. All the reflections in the film are based on the most basic condition that the United States is the winner of the Iraq War.

Just like "Save Private Ryan", reflection on war is a privilege that only winners have.

When war can gain great benefits, they attack fearlessly; when the justice of war is doubtful, they still will not give up...

In some ways, "The Bomb Demolition Force" completely inherits the fine tradition of Hollywood war reflection films, fully meets the current social and political situation, meets the needs of mainstream values, and also meets the requirements of Oscars who always have to make a statement in politics. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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