redhugh
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This Chinese film is well worth watching (thanks for the tip from the best movies thread). About a unit left to fight to the last man in the Chinese civil war in 1948.
The story is a bit melodramatic in places , but some good battle scenes in there.
One obvious cultural difference is the high esteem the Political Officier attached to the unit is held in. Not spoiling anything , but the guy gets killed at the start of the film (and they have to get a replacement) and the soldiers respond in a way as if it was a young florence nightingale or their own son that got shot. Not sure a political officer would be so fondly thought of in western culture
The story is a bit melodramatic in places , but some good battle scenes in there.
One obvious cultural difference is the high esteem the Political Officier attached to the unit is held in. Not spoiling anything , but the guy gets killed at the start of the film (and they have to get a replacement) and the soldiers respond in a way as if it was a young florence nightingale or their own son that got shot. Not sure a political officer would be so fondly thought of in western culture