When the war comes, soldiers represent the country and firmly protect tens of millions of civilians behind them. Use flesh and blood to stop the spread of war. Civilians who have not experienced the battlefield can escape with a gunshot. It is shameful to force civilians to take up arms to resist, because it means that the country has fallen. At least until then, soldiers should hold their ground and fight, not afraid of death! This is the consciousness of soldiers, and it is also the praise angle of general war movies. In Dunkirk, the weight of soldiers in the war is weakened and replaced by the choice of ordinary people when they are invaded in their homes and hometowns and face homelessness.
Mr. Dawson, the protagonist of the main line of the sea, is an ordinary shipowner. When the country was in trouble and had to use the people's strength to rescue the army, he resolutely stuffed as many life jackets as possible into his cabin and told his son firmly in his eyes that he would go to the battlefield to save people.
For people who have never experienced war, it is often thoughtless to make such a decision. What's more, Peter (Dawson's son) also mentioned that the state only requisitioned their ships, and did not explicitly ask them to personally assist the state in taking people back. In other words, people can provide boats and rest at home for a few days. If they really have no confidence in the country, it is ok for the whole family to run away when the country is in war. Therefore, when Dawson drove slowly out of the dock with his son and George Jr. in the moonlight, the naval officers patrolling the ships nearby looked at them with complicated eyes. The naval officer at that time must have flashed Dawson's idea of disobeying the national call and running away. Although he is heading for war, it is almost impossible for an ordinary person to go to the battlefield voluntarily.
In the play, we find that Mr Dawson is not only an experienced captain, but also a military fan. He can judge the engine brand of the plane only by sound, so as to know that it is "one of his own"; After saving the officer who was shipwrecked at sea, he immediately found that the officer suffered from post-war psychological syndrome; When the plane is about to bomb the moonlight, he can calmly and accurately judge the signs of the attack and guide his son to avoid it in time.
Such a man, who has never been a soldier, just tells people his expert military knowledge lightly, saying that he has a son who used to be a fighter of the ace air force.
War and the army can change a person from the depths of the soul. But what it looks like, everyone has different choices. Mr. Dawson's eldest son died heroically shortly after the war. Similarly, he experienced the fear and sadness of death. The escaped soldier was completely defeated. He just wants to live. He just wanted to go home, forgetting that there were hundreds of thousands of comrades waiting for help behind him. In order to express his wish to go home, he even accidentally injured (killed) little George.
The escaped soldier painfully begged Mr. Dawson to sail the boat back to the port and whispered, "I want to go home." ... I just want to go home! Mr. Dawson asked, "If the Germans attack the English Channel, where is home?" Mr. Dawson lost his son, but the war-torn land is still devouring his life. As an ordinary man with no fighting value, he chose his own responsibility and brought back the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect them.
This is a sentence in the movie poster. No matter whether you have seen a movie or not, this sentence gives people a very shocking feeling, which just gives a perfect point to Mr. Dawson's Road to the Sea.
But beyond that, there are other elements of human good feelings in the film. In the face of a good friend being killed by a stranger, Peter's choice about human nature is also terrible.
Throughout the scene, George Jr.' s role is a bit awkward. He didn't talk much when he appeared, and before he could fully express his patriotism, he was taken over by the escaped soldier Ko. From the dialogue and body language analysis of the characters, George Jr. is taken care of by Dawsons and should be regarded as an important friend of Peter. In the face of the death of an important friend, the murderer is a stranger who evades his responsibility and ignores the life and death of his comrades. Peter's choice is forgiveness.
"That boy, how is he?" Asked the fleeing soldier.
"He's ... fine ... he'll be fine." Peter answered, and old Dawson patted Peter on the shoulder.
Although Peter temporarily decided to go to sea with his father to save people, with the death of George Jr., he gradually reached an agreement with his father's consciousness. Even if they die in this sea like little George, they should take home as many people as possible to protect them. It is touching that there is not only one "Mr. Dawson" in this war. In the second half of the film, many ordinary people went deep into the war zone to rescue. Captain met by highland soldiers after they found the sunken ship; The woman who was kindly asked by the general "where did she come from?"
At the end of the film, a soldier wakes up in front of a sunny window. Outside the window were cheering crowds, as if the war had been won. People shouted, well done! It's good to be back! Thank you! It's good to be alive ... wait, wait, this is a war movie full of humanity, and I think it's worth seeing ~ hahaha
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