The review of the movie "Black Hawk Down" is as follows:

"Black Hawk Down" is a war movie directed by American director Ridley Coster. It is based on the 1993 Somali War. , which won the Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing awards at the 74th Academy Awards. This film describes the battle of Mogadishu in 1993. The film describes the story of a combat team composed of the US Army Delta Force and the US Army Rangers fighting against thousands of armed militiamen in Somalia. .

As a war movie, the brutal war scenes and pervasive propaganda of values ??are naturally a major selling point of the film. However, as a classic war movie, it also has a lot to offer in terms of film art. What’s noteworthy, next, I will try to share this movie from the perspective of its images, themes, etc.

"Black Hawk Down" uses a large number of artistic techniques to effectively enhance the expressiveness of the film. For example, in terms of shots, at the beginning of the movie, the director created a sense of depression and dullness through a series of slow-paced cuts, with dim colors, broken buildings, and corpses everywhere. Each shot switch reflects the same This is a tragic picture, and there is no difference between the pictures. In this way, the director reflects the social reality that people in Somalia are struggling to survive under the famine.

When the camera slowly moves from the fine sand, it takes an overhead shot of a skinny man wrapping a starved corpse, and slowly moves down from the face of the dead man. , showing the scene of famine in front of the audience in a sideways movement, and providing a brief explanation of it all with subtitles, which are very successful in understanding the movie. When the US Black Hawk helicopter appeared, the director switched to an overhead shot to show the scene of people in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, frantically grabbing UN disaster relief food.

On the one hand, the overhead perspective can reflect the perspective of the US military looking down on the entire area from the helicopter. On the other hand, the chaos on the ground and the relative order on the helicopter also create a distance between the two. The United Nations relief efforts under the guise of humanity and controversy have no practical effect on the victims.

The scene of Azad’s militiamen massacring people in Mogadishu who were snatching food under the banner of the United Nations Red Cross caused a strong visual and realistic impact, which made people think deeply and also set the stage for later The intervention of the US military bought the foreshadowing.

The color aspect of the movie is also a highlight. As a war movie, the war plot in the movie is very rich. In all war scenes, the main color is gray and cold. Sand, dust, smoke, etc. give people a very heavy sense of depression in color (this sense of depression is also very obvious at the beginning of the movie).

The ubiquitous panning shots reflect the tension of the battle from the side. The film is also very good at handling details. The gravel and soil flying everywhere in the explosion scene, as well as the expressions of each soldier during the battle, are handled very well. The close-ups of the soldiers' faces convey their fear, tension, and disappointment in the war. Complex emotions such as brotherhood and brotherly love for comrades are vividly presented.

It is highly expressive and shocking, and it also effectively combines the grand theme of war with individuals. This approach is a typical feature of American war movies, emphasizing the relationship between war and individuals. question.

In terms of lens processing, the director effectively used lens switching to enrich the expression of the film. For example, the combination of large shots of the militia attack and small shots of the Rangers made the macro perspective and micro perspective combined.

In the course of a fast-paced war, movies often insert a short slow motion to show the casualties of the US military. The sudden slow motion gives people a sense of time being frozen; in urban street battles, The parallel montage technique is used to continuously switch between the Rangers and the Somali militia, and cross-cut the two actions taking place at the same time in different spaces to create a tense atmosphere and a strong sense of rhythm, creating a thrilling dramatic effect.

The director also put a lot of effort into the composition of the picture. When the Delta Force broke into the building to arrest dignitaries of the Azad government, the director did not shoot the story from a normal perspective, but made effective use of lines - moving quickly through the fence at a low position to show the rapid control of the Delta Force. enemy actions.

A movie cannot become a classic without a central idea, especially a movie with a war theme. As the most extreme solution to human conflicts, war has a profound reflection on human nature and human society. At the beginning of the film, a famous quote from Plato is shown in the form of subtitles - only the dead can see the end of war, which highlights the anti-war theme of the film.

While showing the cruelty of war, the director also reflected the human nature under war through the lens: analyzing human nature through children, and discussing a series of issues such as religion during the war. In one scene, a little boy accidentally beats his father to death. Faced with this scene, the Ranger soldiers hesitated for a moment and gave up the idea of ??shooting the little boy.

Here, the director may want to discuss: Whose war is this war? What role do the Somali militia and the US military play in this battle? Is this their own war? What should the relationship between people who have laid down their weapons be like?

There are many scenes of children in the movie, the little girl waving to the soldiers silently in the room, the children dancing in front of the American soldiers, and of course the children who are killing machines. Which one should a child deserve? The appearance of human beings, or the appearance that human beings should have, is self-evident here.

The worship scene appears twice in the movie. Indeed, we see that the believers in the film pray devoutly during worship. However, after the prayers ended, they took up their guns again and started killing.

So, this makes people think: What is the meaning of religion? Whether religion can really erase the sins in people's hearts and create a world of truth, goodness and beauty; under the guidance of God, can it usher in peace in the world? Or as Marx said, religion is just a kind of spiritual opium, just a tool used to numb oneself. The answer the film gives us is the latter.

As a main theme movie, the ideological propaganda of the film is still very obvious. The film successfully creates for the audience the image of American soldiers who maintain world peace and are committed to protecting human rights. At the same time, it also has a positive impact on Africans (especially Black militias) have a stereotype that shows their ignorance and backwardness.

The film also instills a strong value in the audience - No one gets behind (although in the film, Delta sacrificed two soldiers to save a pilot). In the fierce war scenes, the audience can easily be instilled in the film with the values ????the director hopes to convey.

So, "Black Hawk Down" is a very successful war movie, both in terms of technical production and theme expression. However, our country's current war-themed movies are among the most popular among these two. There is still a big gap with it.