Like Oliver Stone's Platoon, Part Two And when a wounded friend collapses nearby
And over the first loss you will cry, grieving,
And when you are without skin, suddenly
Because he was killed, not you.
You will understand what you have learned, distinguished, found.
It's the death of the rock!
Lies and evil, see how their faces are rude.
And always behind the crow and the coffins!
Enlisted in the army, tried on military uniforms, and even sworn in, you no longer belong to yourself. Now you follow orders. Soldiers’ bread is the order of life in unconditional submission. Charter is the dryness of the law. Got it! That's right! Yes, sir! The obsessiveness of the monotony of the language with short formulations of deciphering - understood, do, perform, do not touch. No one expects you to do anything else. That's all I need you for. You're like someone's spider hands, you're legs marching on the first command wherever they say. Do it! Do it! Do it!
The film "East" is a military drama co-produced by the Netherlands, the United States, Belgium and Indonesia. The fighting in Southeast Asia is covered by it. World War II is over. And the Dutch military corps arrives in their colony, Indonesia. In 1942, these sweet territories were wrested from the Europeans by the Japanese. However, with the collapse of the fascist ally, everything returns to normal. Johan, a young Dutch soldier, a recruit who has not yet smelled gunpowder, enters the equatorial paradise. The tasks of the mission are simple - patrolling, maintaining order. Youth in the comprehension of the environment, the main author's idea. Truth is in the face of awareness through self-questions. Right and right through contact with others.
What is most surprising here is the lack of that, yesterday's century, in the set of visual 'slides'. A thing of the past. Became history. The things we're all so used to in clichés are fascists, swastikas, messers falling from the sky, hails of bombs, cannonades of explosions. This is a different war. Totally different. And looking at the frame, it seems that we are in today, in now. Oliver Stone's Platoon is a lot more detail. Like two twin brothers they are with the current "East".
This tape lasts more than two hours. Exotic places, beauty of landscapes additional entourage attractiveness of plot twists. In several parts conditionally split the film. First, the green boy, beating his eyes in front of us, and to the end, a thinking creature, wondering why, why, whether we are doing the right thing.
Similar to the Vietnamese classic of 1986, the American master is over the edge. The author seems to imitate his spiritual teacher, drawing inspiration from his characters - Sergeants Barnes (Tom Berenger), Elias (Willem Defoe), Private Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen). The environment, co-workers, the atmosphere of this small human society involved in blood, death, war, come to life again in the chronicle of the confrontation of characters. In a new phase. Now. From them, no doubt, the impulse to private, and later corporal - Johan, Captain Westerling. From falling in love with reverence almost to hate. To be similar and grow in price, and having gained worldly wisdom, to push away from the wet boat of a cruel and partly even pathetic personality. The teacher has ceased to be a beacon for the student.
The film may seem lengthy, devoid of outbreaks of war, truncated among them, but it is still mostly European cinema, not Hollywood. And so the emphasis here is shifted to the poetics of the individual, if you will. There is love lyrics, subtle, soulful and stunning. A crooked woman with delights of reverence. Another mirage of the ideals of war.
The ending is spectacular and colorful. The last fifteen to twenty minutes of the tape are a reminder of the severity of the laws for these guys. Survive "there" and die "here"? Who cares? Who cares? The land is stingy and dry to its sons upon return. Even from hell.
8 out of 10