movie " Hacksaw Ridge ", Douban score is 8.7, which can be said to be a high-grade stage in war-themed movies. The story tells the story of World War II coming to an end in 1945. As an important member of the Axis of Evil, Japan's arrogance has become the end of its power. In that year, the Battle of Okinawa, which determined the direction of the battle, kicked off, and thousands of high-spirited American soldiers were sent to Okinawa.
Okinawa Island Battle was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the Pacific War of World War II, with more than 80,000 casualties, while the Japanese army suffered more than 100,000 casualties, which is known as a "meat ground". The bloody battle of Hacksaw Ridge is changed by the real incident of the US military capturing the Maeda Highlands of Okinawa . Many scenes in the play also truly restore the war scenes at that time, and the protagonist Desmond Daws also exists.
movie tells the story of a soldier who is willing to hold a gun. When he first arrived at the army, he was rejected by other comrades because he was unwilling to hold a gun. With the help of his father, Daws finally got the opportunity to return to the army. As a military doctor, he could not have to hold a gun.
After a brief training, Daws and the soldiers were sent to the Hacksaw Ridge Front, and before they arrived, the troops had attacked six times in a row, but were beaten back each time. Under the cover of US artillery fire, Daws and his comrades climbed the Hacksaw Ridge through rope nets. It was smooth at the beginning, but as the troops deepened, the Japanese army began to resist fiercely. They took advantage of the evening to come out of the tunnel and launch an attack. The commander of the team in Daws had to order a retreat. However, Daus stayed on the mountain and took advantage of the night to send his injured comrades down the mountain one by one, which was also commended after the war.
movie ended with the US military occupying Hacksaw Ridge, and Daws was injured and sent down the mountain. The whole movie strives to restore the war scenes at that time to the greatest extent, but there is one detail that makes the audience feel puzzled, that is, the rope net used by the US military when climbing the Hacksaw Ridge. Many people have questions about who hangs it up and is it left by the Japanese army? Why didn’t the Japanese army cut it off? Wouldn’t the US army not be able to get on?
As mentioned earlier, this hacksaw ridge also exists in the war, which is Maeda Highland. The altitude of this place is not high, only more than 100 meters, the highest place is only more than 80 meters, and the lowest place is only more than 10 meters, with a small hill with high in the middle and low on both sides. The place where the US military landed is in the middle of Okinawa Island. It needs to attack both ends and eventually occupy Okinawa Island, which is bound to break through this small hill bag.
Although the overall height is not high, the terrain is steep, so it is obviously unrealistic to climb directly with human power, because this is in war, so there must be a way to get soldiers up quickly. It is not difficult to see from the movies and actual photos that the US military used the rope nets on the ship to build such climbing tools, so this was built by the US military.
So why didn’t the Japanese army destroy this rope net? The Battle of Okinawa is already at the end of World War II . At this time, Japan is already fighting locally and is making the final resistance. From the perspective of the entire battle situation, there is basically no way to change it. So what they have to do is to eliminate as much vitality as possible from the US military, so there is still a glimmer of hope. So they dug many pits on the Maeda Highlands, and everyone hid them inside. After the US military came up, they came out of the pit to achieve the goal of destroying the US military.
From the perspective of the US military, the US military has warship cruises at sea, fighter jets patrol in the air, and in high ground, the US military has also established a front-line base, so it is still difficult for the Japanese army to cut the rope net.
So, the rope net that appears in the movie is real, but the director moved the rope net and replaced the hill bag with a steeper cliff, making the movie look more nervous. The so-called art originates from life, which is also the perfect combination of art and reality!
