How do you rate the movie "Lake Changjin" starring Wu Jing and Yi Yi?

Ice and snow bury loyal bones, cold light shines on iron clothes

Jangjin Lake and Jangjin Lake are two different things.

One is the battle of ice and fire that took place more than 70 years ago in the mountains of the Korean Peninsula;

One is the most anticipated domestic war movie of 2021 on the big screen;

If there is no such battle until more than half a century later, both sides of the war recall the desperate battle that is still palpitating with fear, naturally, there will not be a movie later on.

What kind of battle was it that people remember so fondly?

The story takes place from November to December 1950, during the Second Battle of the Eastern Front. The two opposing sides are the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Ninth Corps and the United States Tenth Army, the Volunteer Army under the jurisdiction of the 20th Army, the 26th Army, the 27th Army, a **** one hundred and fifty thousand people, and the United States Army is about one hundred thousand people or so, mainly the first division of the land war, the Army's Third Division, the Seventh Division. These two forces are the two sides of the army at the time the main force of the elite division, so this battle is comparable to the sparks hit the earth, ace against ace.

The Ninth Corps under the leadership of Founding General Song Shilun had been preparing for battle on the southeastern front as the main force in the cross-sea campaign to liberate Taiwan. What is expected to the outbreak of the Korean War, was ordered to rush north, day and night to the front line of the second battle, can be said to be a soldier, but at the same time buried a serious shortage of logistical supplies of hidden problems, especially in the high alpine areas of the combat essential cold clothing, more unfortunate is that later they encountered the northern North Korea's coldest winter, so the Volunteer Army Ninth Regiment at that time there are two enemies, the Americans and the weather, if the previous one can also If the first one can be fought by fearless morale, the latter one is undoubtedly much more brutal.

The opposite side of the U.S. Army's main force, the First Marine Division, is also in the Second World War in the war, especially to Guadalcanal Island battle against the Japanese southward regiment and counterattack victory and fame, so that you can "GUADALCANAL" embroidered in the armband, the popularity of the moment. The 2010 HBO series "The Pacific" is based on their war history. The U.S. Army was well-equipped, morale was high, and if there was one fly in the ointment, it was the open and shut battle between the U.N. Army's supreme commander, Douglas MacArthur, the 10th Army commander, Almond, and the 1st Marine Division commander, Smith, which likewise became one of the winners and losers of the second battle that determined the final outcome.

Since it's a war, there's always a winner and a loser, so who lost and who won?

Strategically, the Volunteer Army won, not only crushing MacArthur's vaunted Christmas offensive, but also launching a counterattack that pushed the overall front southward, approaching the 38th Parallel and recapturing Pyongyang, while the U.S. military's more artful statement was, "Let's move on in a different direction. But for both the winners and the losers, it was a battle soaked in blood and claimed countless lives.

Tactically speaking, there is a lot to enjoy, and it is worthwhile for those who come after us to savor it.

The Battle of Changjin Lake created a record of the Volunteers wiping out an entire regiment of U.S. troops in the War of Resistance against U.S. Aid for North Korea, and the flag of the 31st regiment of the U.S. Army's Seventh Division, the Polar Bears Regiment, which was wiped out, has been preserved in the Military Museum in Beijing, forcing the first U.S. Army ace to undergo the "longest retreat" in the history of the First Land War Division. "The longest retreat in history. It can be said that this battle volunteers played out the military prestige, played out the national prestige, played out the "human strongest light infantry" of the hefty reputation.

At the same time, the harsh weather to the ill-prepared volunteers brought unexpected major damage. The 9th Corps suffered 19,202 battle casualties and 32,954 frostbite deaths and injuries, a ratio of 1:1.6, with a combined loss of more than one-third of the total strength of the army. In fact, after this battle, the Ninth Corps was forced to withdraw from the combat sequence, returned to the country to rest and recuperate, and did not rejoin the battle until the fifth campaign, the cruelty of this battle can be seen.

It was a truly disastrous victory.

In addition to objective factors such as the U.S. army is really fierce and the weather is really cold, subjective gullibility also gave rise to a profound review after the war.

Western Front, the enemy's strength compared to 1:1.5, this is only the personnel figures, if you count the two sides in the weaponry, logistical support on the huge difference, no air force, no hot meals, heavy firepower is almost zero, mechanization is basically no, the volunteers are in fact at an absolute disadvantage. Under such a fundamental premise, the battle goal was set as the total annihilation of the U.S. Army, which is undoubtedly unrealistic.

When the battle started, the volunteers found that even a division surrounded the U.S. Army a regiment, the other side can still rely on the ferocious firepower reserves, contraction of the defense line, waiting for reinforcements, no matter how the volunteers penetrate the penetration, melee night fighting rounds, and even sea of offensive, is to take the regiment into a ball of hedgehogs have little to do, and watch the enemy stumbled breakout withdrawal.

The most obvious battle than the Watergate Bridge, which is stuck in the U.S. Army breakout retreat on the road to the bridge, was the Volunteer Army bombed three times, but each time the U.S. Army can rely on strong logistical forces in the shortest possible time to repair the completion of the last simply directly from the U.S. Army base in Japan airlifted steel girders and iron cables to the Korean battlefield, built a load of more than fifty tons of brand new bridges! The capacity of the bridge even exceeded that of the original bridge. At this moment, the penetration in place, ambush in the U.S. Army retreat road on both sides of the volunteer soldiers but no longer shot a bullet, minus forty degrees of cold has taken their lives, an unyielding ice sculpture still maintains a latent impact of the formation, which is how unwilling?

Just won the war of liberation into the Korean forces, in the early stage of the war of resistance to the United States to support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea undoubtedly armed to the teeth, the real U.S. army and just take the U.S. ordnance of the Kuomintang army together as a reference, this miscalculation in fact exists in the whole army, became a kind of enough to fatal blind optimism. Waiting for the battle to start, the real sword collided together, only to realize that it is not the same thing at all. As an example, throughout the anti-U.S. support for North Korea, a **** there are four full divisional commanders were removed from their posts, the battle of Changjin Lake accounted for two, 88 Division Commander Wu Dalin and political commissar Gong Jie because of the missed opportunities, combat ineffective and was punished by court martial, the 88 Division number was withdrawn, downsized to a regiment, the People's Liberation Army in the history of the People's Liberation Army in China belongs to an extremely harsh and rare punishment.

So Jangjin Lake, the name of a place hidden in the mountains of northern Korea, has become world-famous because of this great battle, which is etched in the minds of both China and the United States. Frankly speaking, Changjin Lake battle is not the whole of the Korean War during the Volunteer Army results of the most brilliant pride, for a long time, and is not the focus of domestic propaganda, and even worse than the defeat of the Americans in the port of Xingnan, and also crowned himself with a hat comparable to the great retreat of Dunkirk. The entire second battle is divided into two battle stations, and the eastern front Changjin Lake corresponds to the western front battle station in the battle of Songbaofeng, was then the war correspondent Wei Wei wrote the famous "who is the most lovely people", into the language textbooks, and the eastern front main force of the Thirty-eighth Army is to play the "long-lasting army" of the name.

So why would we bring such a battle to the big screen today? That's a good question, and if you really want to answer it, I'm afraid you'll have to think back seventy years to today's U.S.-China relations. After all, war, as the most complex and top-tier mode of all human social activity, has always been about politics in the service of politics.

After all this talk about Changjin Lake, let's talk about Changjin Lake today.

War movies, being typically high-investment, high-risk, high-reward, generally go in one of two directions.

One is to the big shot, showing the grand scenes of war, reflecting the history of the classic moment of great change, such as the "longest day", "distant bridge", "Armageddon" and so on, but there is no diamond diamond, don't take the china work, blockbusters are risky, the investment needs to be careful.

One is to small shot, focusing on the individual in the context of the war in the sad and happy, old and sick, so that there is no doubt that the risk of controllable a lot smaller, at the same time more likely to cause the audience's **** Ming, such as the "Saving Private Ryan", "field platoon", "the rallying cry," and so on.

And "Changjin Lake" is undoubtedly much more ambitious, it is the big one to be, and the small one to be, both of which it wants.

Easier said than done.

A three-hour movie that cost up to 1.3 billion yuan, was shot in more than 180 days, the creative team polished the script for five years, the filming team of more than 7,000 people, using 70,000 times of the crowd actors, involved in special effects companies more than forty, the total number of staff of more than 12,000 people. No matter which way you look at it, it's a rare masterstroke for a Chinese movie in recent years.

The creators of the so-called Heavenly Troupe are equipped with three directors alone: Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, and Lin Chiu-hsien. With the business ability and past accomplishments of the three of them, any one of them standing out on their own and making a production is on the spectrum. So does one plus one plus one always equal three? Hey, it's not really a sure thing, maybe less than two, or less than one.

We're not sure exactly how the three directors divide up the work, whether it's according to what they do, or whether it's according to the movie's main plot line. But for the audience in front of the screen, the biggest problem with "Lake Nagatsu" lies in the loss of the sense of balance that is essential to a great work. The so-called "start, turn, and merge" is absent, and the highs and lows are all flat. The opening scene is the climax, the whole process is racing, the gas pedal to the end, regardless of whether you dizzy. It feels like the three directors are desperately competing for the audience, you come to see me, you come to see me! Come see me, come see me, come see me! However, the time is limited, the space is limited, the clever woman can't cook without rice, then desperately stuffed into the high-energy stimulation elements, what is cool to what, what is sensational to what, what is short and quick to what, don't know also thought it was the number one Hollywood terrorist Michael Bay driving it. However, the plot goes too fast, it is easy to get out of line, there is no padding of the twist is easy to turn the car, not to mention that sometimes the audience can not even see a face clearly, the actors seem to have forgotten almost exactly what, those who can not withstand scrutiny of the tear-jerking scene will be more and more seemingly cheap and childish.

But the tearing caused by the multiple directors is not nearly as bad as the damage done by the 50-cent special effects.

Oh, it's the damage done by 200 million special effects, which is a lot more impressive than 50 cents.

It's already 2021, and it's still popular to have muzzleloaders spewing flames more than a meter long, are you setting off fireworks?

To carry a Bazooka rocket launcher to attack a fixed-wing fighter jet flying at subsonic speeds, is this a new technology learned from Bollywood next door?

The doors of the train opened, wow, thousands of miles of beautiful mountains and rivers, just like the rural New Year's Eve paintings, full of plastic, 50 cents a piece, can not be more;

This should be a grueling encounter with the river bank, actually appeared in the air of the U.S. pilots dialog linking scenes, the feeling is like an on-line game of the same feeling;

Driving a pickup truck directly to the Bazooka rocket launcher to attack a subsonic fixed-fighter, this is from the next door to Bollywood. Driving a small truck, directly rushed to the U.S. Army convoy, see who destroyed who, do not know thought it was Transformers possessed it;

Not to mention the air collision shells, never finished bullets, crowded charging formation, not as good as the level of the B station demolition scenes, children play house general weapons props, if you look carefully at the American tanks, there is no captain above the observation window, I do not know how to drive this tank. I don't know how this tank is opened up, or should I say the crew too look down on the domestic props factory it. The result is that you turn your head and realize that a captured tank will drive, reverse gear, load the gun, open the gun, very smooth, you know that a tank soldier for the volunteer army at that time how valuable?

The crudeness, amateurishness and carelessness that permeate the film are all reminders that inflation in China's movie industry has reached such an outrageous level that it's scary to think about.

As for the actors, the one who played the best role in the whole movie was Hu Jun, although the final sacrifice also lacked the minimum military common sense, but as an actor, he did his best. Secondly, Duan Yihong, the acting have acted, no credit, is considered to have hard work it. Yi Yi Qianxi, still stuck in "Junior You", only this time in military uniform, no growth and breakthrough, but no decline.

As for Wu Jing standing in the C position, when will he learn not to show off and play it cool in the movie, when will he become a real actor. Actors are there to serve the movie, not to put the cart before the horse and make the whole movie work for you alone, and no actor, no actor, should put himself above the work of the movie. If you insist on turning a movie into a solo show, you might as well go make MTV.

As for those thunderous to almost hilarious lines, sudden sermonizing, righteous posing, the awkwardness of forcing a twist when it's too late, and the uniformity of the characters, all of these are seriously hurting the quality of a movie, the audience that pays for a ticket to the theater, and the Chinese movie, which has had a tough time in the past two years.

It is tempting to ask, if the movie is made in such a way, and is so shoddily produced, can you afford to let the martyrs at Changjin Lake die?

Let's end on a quote from Yang Genshi, a volunteer war hero

Don't believe there's a mission that can't be accomplished.

Don't believe there are difficulties that can't be overcome.

Don't believe there is an enemy that can't be defeated.