Chapter 520: The World of Adults
After the war scenes that are enough to go down in film history, the film enters a period of peace, which allows the audience to relax their tense nerves while also explaining the plot of the film to homeopathy.
In the quiet countryside, in the middle of a large wheat field, in the kitchen of a wooden house, a woman was preparing food, and when she saw a car coming down a winding path towards her house through the window, she walked out of the house with trepidation, and saw several officers getting out of the car, slumped on the ground.
There is not a single line in the whole shot, but the gloomy, oppressive sky and heavy music vividly portray the infinite grief at this moment, which hits people's hearts.
It wasn't until General Marshall read Lincoln's letter and decided to send someone to find Ryan that the grief dissipated and the heaviness in the audience's hearts disappeared.
Listening to the applause in the theater, film critics Harry Quinn and Botolo Moody couldn't help but clap their hands, he knew that it was John who was sensational, but he couldn't help but be moved.
This sensationalism, the director handled it very cleverly, first suppressed and then promoted, using images and music similar to mime to create a sad atmosphere, bringing a heavy shackle to the audience's heart, and breaking the shackles in the audience's heart with a letter from a great man in the later stage, so that the audience's suppressed emotions were greatly released, and it opened the curtain of the whole movie, paving the way for the later search and rescue.
The camera returns to the battlefield again, and Captain Miller sets off with the search and rescue team.
"Is it worth saving one out of eight?"
This is not only the question of the audience, but also the question of the search and rescue members, in order to make the contradiction more acute, the movie did not make the search and rescue members face-painted, but through the search and rescue along the way, everyone will be concretized, three-dimensional, and deeply analyze everyone.
Captain Miller is a hero and the heart of the entire search and rescue team, but his trembling hands show time and time again that he is just an ordinary teacher and has people he loves.
Weide is a doctor who saves the lives of his comrades on the battlefield regardless of danger, he is a hero, but when he copies letters for Capazzo in the dark and tells about his childhood and mother, you will feel that he is actually just an ordinary person, with his own emotions and his own family. Especially when you die, shouting "Mom" vigorously, this instinctive performance is the same as that of you and me.
Urban, a timid translator, has never participated in a war, and he doesn't know what hatred is in the face of the enemy, but his timid character can tell us more truthfully, not everyone can pick up a gun and charge, not everyone can see death as home, and his performance is actually the performance of every ordinary person in the face of war.
When Ryan appeared, more than half of the movie had passed, and the person the search and rescue team was actually just an ordinary private, an ordinary member of thousands of soldiers. But he is a symbol of the country's humanity, human rights, and democracy, a symbol of far-reaching significance.
"Is this the calm before the storm?"
The search and rescue team sat on the stairs listening to the music, Miller and Ryan chatting together, all this looked beautiful, no quarrels, no gunfire, very quiet, but the audience knew that a big battle was coming, and according to the shocking landing battle before the film, this final battle will be unforgettable for the director.
The battle began, and this battle was not as bloody and cruel as the previous landing battle, but it hit the hearts of the people even more.
The timid Urban, who fired his first shot in the whole movie, did not hesitate to kill a German soldier, and he was atoning for his sins, because this German soldier was the prisoner he pleaded to release at the radar station, he really felt the cruelty of war, and at the same time was turned into a murderous soldier by war.
Captain Miller fell at the end, and his last words in life were to let Ryan live well and not let down everyone's sacrifices.
A good director will not fight for the sake of war, all the fierce battles, all the cruelty, all the blood and sacrifice are just to show the brilliance of humanity in war, and the desire for peace.
"Dear Mrs. Ryan,
I have good news for you, your son, Private James Ryan, is safe and sound, and is now returning home from the front lines in Europe.
Reports from the front show that James's loyalty, courage, and perseverance persevered in the great struggle to lift the tyranny of the dictatorship despite learning of the tragic death of his three older brothers.
I wish you good health and happiness with the Secretary of War and the entire army and the whole country.
Although my son returned home safely, it will not make up for the grief you and thousands of American families endured during the war.
I would like to share with you a phrase that has accompanied me through difficult times: "May God comfort you in the loss of a child, and make you forever remember your departed love, and to you the glory of God, for you have paid a great price for your freedom."
Yours sincerely, Abraham Lincoln.
With deep respect!
Chief of Staff: George Marshall!"
Accompanied by mournful music, the voice of Admiral Marshall sounded, a letter from the military to Ryan's mother, and to thousands of American families, and to all soldiers.
At the end of the film, Ryan was saved, but he lived with self-blame, and when he was old, he came to the grave of his comrades, looked at the tombstone of Captain Miller, and couldn't help but ask the wife next to him if he was a good person, until he heard his wife's affirmative answer and learned that he had not failed his comrades, so he let go of the self-blame in his heart.
The gray-haired Ryan then gets up from the ground and gives a military salute to Captain Miller's tombstone, and the Star-Spangled Banner appears again to the sound of music, bringing the movie to a close.
At the end of the movie, the subtitles slowly fell, and the huge theater burst into thunderous applause, and all the audience stood up and applauded this great movie.
John took the main crew members to the stage for a curtain call, and the applause of the entire theater lasted for five minutes before it ended, and everyone was venting their emotions and love for the movie.
"Congratulations, Director Chris Deng!"
"Congratulations!"
"Congratulations!"
After the curtain call, the peers came forward to congratulate, John was surrounded by everyone, and he was the most radiant protagonist at the Huaxia Grand Theater tonight.
"What to do? How is this movie bashing?"
Film critic Harry Quinn has a headache when he looks at John, who is praised by the stars, this movie is so good, the politics and artistry are perfect, and I can't find a place to criticize, but if I don't criticize, how should I put the faces of their group of film critics?
We want to praise this film, because it was our criticism of John Chris Deng in Independence Day that led him to make Private Ryan. Botolo Moodysin gives all the credit to the critics.
"Yes, yes, yes, we want to praise, and not only praise, but also let this film go down in history, only in this way can we better reflect the importance of our film critics!" Harry Quinn turned his head quickly, and immediately understood what his companion meant.
The praise of the enemy is sometimes also an indirect improvement of oneself!
The conflict of interests will shift with interests, so there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies in the adult world, only the interests that will always be chased!