The concept of the film "The Ninth Company" put forward by the creative staff, as the director George W. Bundachuk said, truly describes the situation of the war in Afghanistan, does not write about the politics at that time, does not beautify the war, but only writes about the day and night of a small army, and the experience of an army composed of 18 and 19-year-old recruits from training to going to the battlefield. The director said that a friend asked him if he was making a movie and wanted to make a movie about the war in Afghanistan. At that time, he was planning to remake his father's "One Man's Experience", but it showed the Chechen war, so he decided to shoot "The Ninth Company".
"We left Afghanistan, and our ninth company won our own war. Only then, however, did we know that in two years, the country we once fought for would no longer exist, and the Soviet military uniforms and medals that we used to be proud of would no longer be fashionable; I didn't know that Captain дегало stayed to continue to serve our country and trained new recruits in the central Russian city тула, but a year later, he died of a stroke during a marching training. We don't know that the border town where Snow White and her mother live has been deserted ever since. We were mercilessly abandoned by our new life. Some of us live a very rich life, while others are tortured by the shadow of war all their lives. Before returning to our motherland, we knew nothing about these situations. We didn't even know that we were forgotten by the big army in the chaos, in that distant highland. We left Afghanistan, and in the ninth group, we won. "
This is the end of the Russian film "Commando 9". A lonely veteran with a medal sits quietly on the roof of a tank, followed by winding mountains in Afghanistan. The film ended in such a sad atmosphere.
Frankly speaking, before watching Commando 9, Russian war movies were still the same as those of the former Soviet Union in my mind: the protagonist of Gao Daquan, the political commissar who shouted slogans, and the villain of facebook ... all of them were shattered by Commando 9.
The story of the film is now overwhelming on the Internet, but a foreign film that has not been publicized in China has been enthusiastically sought after on the Internet, which is really worth thinking about by domestic film practitioners. Because, it is they who have "contributed" to us in recent years, such as rushing out of Amazon, eating big food, gunmen and breaking through. We don't watch war movies to watch computer stunts, let alone "soldiers are human beings and have emotional entanglements."
The whole film can clearly see the influence of American war movies, and interpret this war that lasted for ten years from the perspective of an ordinary soldier. Because it is a soldier's point of view, it is more real. As the ninth group of veterans in real life said in an interview: "Our superiors ordered us to go to the front and said that we must do so. We also packed up and didn't ask why. " This is exactly what a soldier would say.
The last battle of the film is thought-provoking. The Ninth Group finally held its ground after paying heavy sacrifices. When Jin Ya, the last survivor, reported to the commander of Luhang that the battle was over and the large troops could pass safely, the commander asked him why he didn't withdraw his troops and why there was no contact between the position and the headquarters. A meaningless battle and sacrifice is the epitome of the war in Afghanistan.
Finally, Jinya, who was once in high spirits, sat on the roof of the tank with a lonely face, surrounded by a group of childlike recruits. Once upon a time, he and his brothers came to Afghanistan with hope like those new recruits. They once thought they were liberators, but they were greeted by bullets; They used to think that the war was romantic, but the constant death made them completely awake. Just as Jin Ya's last monologue: "To our surprise, the country we fought for disappeared two years later." Once touched, it becomes illusory, and a country that once bled for it suddenly ceases to exist. Those who died in battle and didn't see these are lucky. Those who survive will only feel emptiness and confusion, and endless pain. Jinya was a survivor of the battle, but he also died. His passion and vitality have long been buried in the mountains of Afghanistan with his brothers.
"We left Afghanistan, and we, the ninth company, won our own war; However, we didn't know at that time, and we didn't know that two years later, the country we had fought for would no longer exist, and the Soviet military uniforms and medals we were proud of would no longer be fashionable; I didn't know that Captain дегало stayed to continue to serve our country and trained new recruits in the central Russian city тула, but a year later, he died of a stroke during a marching training. We don't know that the border town where Snow White and her mother live has been deserted ever since. We were mercilessly abandoned by our new life. Some of us live a very rich life, while others are tortured by the shadow of war all their lives. Before returning to our motherland, we knew nothing about these situations. We didn't even know that we were forgotten by the big army in the chaos, in that distant highland. We left Afghanistan. In the ninth group, we won. "
In the war in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union lost, but in the eyes of these soldiers, the Soviet Union won because they held the highland, their highland.