This game is the most legendary and controversial game in basketball history. Afterwards, the Americans thought the result of the competition was unfair and refused to accept the silver medal. So far, this 12 medal is still lying in the Olympic Museum in Switzerland.
Although there are disputes between the winner and the referee, the game itself is still wonderful. However, with the audience's psychological expectation and knowing the ending in advance, the film is still ups and downs, which makes people excited. The right rhythm, the portrayal of the characters' psychology and the rendering of the atmosphere of key scenes make it very immersive and infectious, and the background behind the story gives the works a black humor irony.
There are two key lines in the movie, one is the main line and the other is the dark line.
The main line in the lamp is the newly appointed head coach of the national basketball team of the former Soviet Union, Garland Ren. At the press conference, he released his rhetoric to beat the defending champion American team. With this as the goal, last stand finally led the team members to a miraculous victory.
In the main line of this story, every character is vividly portrayed, and everyone has many difficulties on the road to victory, and there are often contradictions between them.
As a new official, the new training policy is always questioned by the players. On the other hand, he is under great pressure to save money for his son to go abroad for surgery.
Sergei belov suffered a serious leg injury, so he had to take part in training and competition.
Alexander belov was found to be terminally ill, and his days may be numbered, but his desire for victory was too strong, and he did not hesitate to hide his illness in the early stage. ...
In this bad situation, coaches and players often disagree because of different ideas, and the hope of victory was once very slim.
With the development of the plot, the gap between them gradually dissolved, and everyone's goal reached an agreement: spare no effort to create a miracle of victory.
Garland Ren took out the money from his son's operation to pay for the treatment of little Belov; Sergey cheered for the team after learning the truth; Paulauskas, who had intended to defect, gave up at the last minute and returned to the team.
Although these facts and details are inconsistent with the experience of the prototype of the characters, and there are many exaggerated and fabricated elements (for example, Paulauskas in reality did not actually want to defect), as a means of expression of film art, it strengthened the dramatic conflict and more fully shaped the role.
The film took nearly 40 minutes to restore the game of that year through various details, as if it were a hearty ball game. At the end of the film, the American team won the game 50-49 and began to celebrate the victory. However, due to the timer failure, the referee announced that there were three seconds left in the game.
This controversial three seconds, in the slow motion of the film, has the shock and beauty of salvation. The long three seconds almost reached the peak of the audience's empathy and held their breath with the characters in the film.
The terminally ill Alexander belov killed the Jedi with a beautiful shot, and the emotions inside and outside the film reached a climax at this moment.
Behind this bloody story, there is a dark side line, that is, under the background of the Cold War and the turbulent situation in the United States and the Soviet Union at that time, there were shortcomings in the former Soviet system.
At this point, Russia spared no effort to discredit itself, and many descriptions in the film were even more exaggerated than the real situation at that time.
The team won the European Championship and returned home in triumph, but they were not treated like celebrities at the customs and were strictly checked out of the box. This bridge shows the social situation at that time very intuitively: the former Soviet Union was short of various commodities, and although the government strictly investigated foreign exchange and smuggling, it still could not stop people from buying goods from abroad.
In the film, the medical technology of the former Soviet Union is not as advanced as that of the United States (in fact, it is not so controversial), which is why Garland wants to take his son abroad for surgery as a coach. Sergei's leg pain depends on ice after playing, but the United States also has instant painkillers, which also reflects this.
People's daily life is also in a tense and depressing atmosphere. There is a detail in the movie. Little Belov's girlfriend wants to marry him, but the coach told her to wait five years.
The terrorist attack in Palestine in the story is indeed a historical truth. All the hijacked 1 1 Israeli athletes were killed. This political terrorist incident is also known as the "Munich Massacre".
In the film, when the former head coach of the leading team announced that they would continue to play in a tense situation, he said something to the effect that "sports competition is the highest level of war."
This is also the sportsmanship that Death Munich wants to convey: it has nothing to do with the times, nothing to do with politics, do your best and never give up.
Every moment of sweating is worthy of tribute. They are always pure and always make people cry.