1. Paths of Glory
The highest level - our first choice - is the ultimate statement of humanity's inhumanity to humanity. It's from Stanley Kubrick. Is there anything strange about it? Most of the director's films are devoted to depicting military stupidity (believe us, we also played with Barry Linden). Elevating the road of glory to the level of fighting – and above all other titles – is not the cruel scene of trench warfare in the first World War, but its scalpel like indictment of the pride brought by fighting. Kirk Douglas's lawyer Colonel's mission was to defend three innocent soldiers in court, who happened to be part of a failed skirmish. According to the true plot of the execution of French soldiers for "cowardice", Kubrick's war movie angered the French government and was not released in France until 1975. However, the lesson of this war movie is universal and eternal: if the war turns us into monsters, even if we leave the battlefield, we have no purpose to launch it.
2. Apocalypse Now
The battles behind Francis Ford Coppola's surreal war movies are well documented: nightmarish years of shooting; Star Martin Xin's heart attack and rehabilitation; A group of giggling reporters sharpened their knives for an epic Turkey. Coppola will laugh to the end. Most of the vocabulary of modern war pictures comes from this war movie, which is an opera style Vietnamese tragedy set by the roaring helicopter blades, Wagner type explosions, purple smoke and Joseph Conrad's colonial fantasy "heart of darkness". Fans of the godfather, a director of such importance in the 1970s, know that this is his last fully realized work; Connoisseurs of war movies (rightly) regard it as his second masterpiece of all-out effort.
3. Grand Illusion
The great war movie humanist Jean Renoir wrote and directed this wonderful World War I story, which tells the story of two French pilots who were captured by a German captain (Erich von Stroheim, who was perfectly shaped into a polite tyrant) and shuttled between prisons. They plan a big escape, but this is not a simple story of heroes and villains. Class conflicts are common: one of our heroes is an aristocrat, and it is easy to make friends with his warden. At the same time, the other person is a rude person - a charming anti system growler. However, Renoir did not place one character above another. In fact, the film sympathizes with all views, even though it wisely doubts how these belligerent situations arise. Because of its sharp generosity, the film won numerous awards and aroused the anger of Joseph Goebbels, who declared it "the first public enemy of the film".
4. Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick's unsettling contribution to Vietnam war movies will gouge out your eyes and skull his mother (to quote a line). The first half of this work is set in the Marine Corps' Paris Island training facility, and is widely praised: the training instructor R. Lee Ermey spits out every conceivable dirty word (plus some new dirty words), while allowing a group of recruits to complete their steps. However, the less discussed second half followed Matthew Modine's private. The "clown" and his comrades in arms launched an offensive through the Spring Festival - a necessary supplement. This is the end result of turning men into killing machines, just like staring at the abyss.A realistic war movie remind us the importance of peace.
5. Starship Troopers
Stop snickering: there's a reason this sci-fi war movie is so high on our list. No wealthy Hollywood institution has ever (and may never) been so chosen to make subversive comments on its fascist impulses. Paul Verhoeven, the director, giggled all the way to the box office, because the giant bugs were destroyed by the gorgeous short bulls; When Neil Patrick Harris appeared near the end of the film wearing a Nazi trench coat, the joke was almost exposed. Source: novelist Robert Heinlein sincerely expressed his militarism story; At the same time, the destruction of human happiness shown here can only be used as a sharp criticism, including both military and public tastes. Return to it with fresh eyes.
6. Army of Shadows
The cold blue portrait of Jean Pierre Melville's French resistance fighters was rediscovered in 2006 with the great fanfare usually reserved for the excavation of lost classics, providing a beautiful case for the honor of wanted criminals. Behind the scenes beatings and driving shootings triggered a dialogue film about spy sacrifice. Melville's reputation used to rely on cold, remote gangster photos, such as Samurai (1967), but it is a revelation to see his canvas extended to national politics. What was the reason why this war movie was initially ignored? Fashionable French critics think it is too Pro Gaulle. What happened?
