Ukubuyekezwa kwe-War Dispatches
“Ezinye izintatheli zikhulume ngokusebenza ngaphandle kodaba olungase lube khona, ngaphandle kokuthi zibike. Bengingazi […] Abathi yizona izintatheli ezasibuza ukuthi kungani sihlala sikhuluma namasosha...»
Ukuthunyelwa kwempi kudinga ukusetshenziswa komuntu wokuqala kanye nabo bonke mina, mina, mina u-Herr afunayo ngoba, kude nokuba yiqoqo lemibiko yempi nokusebenza, le ncwadi iwubufakazi obuqinile bomunye wabantu abambalwa abagcine ukungena. leso sihogo ngaphandle kokuphoqelelwa ukwenza kanjalo. Futhi, phezu kwalokho, umuntu owabhala okumangalisayo (washona ngo-2016).
Umbono womuntu nomsulwa wentatheli "engafinyeleli esikhumbeni emathanjeni" osabayo. Umuntu abhajwe ahlebe ethi "I'm not ready for this, I'm not ready for this" uma ecabanga ukuthi ubona ukukhanya kunyakaza ehlathini ebusuku. Umuntu osekusha konke akubonayo. Futhi kuyabala.
Isakhiwo sinesiphithiphithi futhi sixuba ngokushesha izimo ezehlukene zendawo nezesikhashana. Ukuhamba kancane kubukeka kufana nokuhlangenwe nakho kukaHerr, athi kuthathe "inyanga ukulahlekelwa yilowo muzwa wokuba yisibukeli sento ebiyingxenye yomdlalo kanye nombukwane."
Njengoba amakhasi eqhubeka, izivumo mayelana nesimo sakhe somqondo, ukwesaba kwakhe, kanye nokucindezeleka kwakhe kuvumela ngobuqili indaba yansuku zonke yamasosha, ama-protagonists angempela ("Ngangisanda kuphuthelwa impi enkulu kunazo zonke kuze kube yileso sikhathi. , wayengitshela ukuthi uyaxolisa, kodwa leyo mpi yayilapho, nxazonke zami, futhi ngangingazi nokuyazi").
Umbiko wentatheli ngaphandle kwezichasiso
U-Herr uvunyelwe kuphela izichasiso uma zibhekisela kuye futhi kuphela. Amasosha abamba iqhaza kuphela ngendlela yezincazelo zalokho akwenzayo nezingxoxo:
-Namuhla ebusuku kuzoba nenkathazo, impela, ungahlukani nami. Kuzoba nenhlanhla uMahew engakuthathi uZip akuchithe ubuchopho. Kunezikhathi lapho esangana khona ngempela.
"Ucabanga ukuthi bazohlasela?"
Ehlehlisiwe
"Mhlawumbe bazokwenza i-trial run." Basifakela leyo nombolo ngobusuku obuthathu obudlule base bebulala umfana. Umfowethu.
"Kodwa leli cala lihle kakhulu." Ingahlala isikhashana. Noma bangasiphonsa kangakanani, ngeke ibe khona inkinga.
"Abantu balala ngamavesti angangenwa izinhlamvu?"
"Abanye bayakwenza, angifuni." Mayhew, lowo mfene ohlanyayo, ulala nembongolo yakhe emoyeni. Kuyamangalisa ndoda, uklebe laphaya naye phakathi lapha nembongolo yakhe emoyeni.
Bakwenza ufune ukusho ukuthi i-War Dispatches izwakala Ijakhethi yensimbi o Apocalypse Manje, kodwa kungenye indlela. Njengoba sesishilo, uMichael Herr ubeyingxenye ebalulekile yombhalo walezi zingcweti ezimbili zasesinema. Kakade ku-Dispatches of War sithola umdubuli womshini wendiza enophephela emhlane efile abaphuzi abayikhulu namashumi amahlanu, bonke benezitifiketi; isosha elintshontshwe ikhamera ethafeni elincane eSaigon noma lelo elivela ku-Born ukuze libulale kugqoko.
ukwesaba, ukwesaba
Omunye wasolwandle uqeda i-Vietcong efayo ngesiqhumisa amabhomu, omunye ulele phezu kwezikhwama zesihlabathi zomsele futhi ungena endaweni, engenandaba nokukhala kwamaqabane akhe ukuze acashe, omunye unquma ukungayilaleli imiyalo yomphathi wakhe wokuhlola igquma futhi. ubona ukuthi imizuzwana kamuva uLieutenant ngokwakhe endizela emoyeni. Isosha linikezwa imvume yokuphumula futhi kuhambe izinsuku lifike sekwephuzile ngamabomu endiza enophephela emhlane ezolibuyisela ekhaya ngoba lizwa ukuthi indawo yalo ikhona, ehlathini. Umsakazo ukhuluma ngendlela amagobolondo e-tracer ajabulisa ngayo uma ekhanyisa isibhakabhaka nokuthi kubaluleke kangakanani ukukhuculula izinsalela ezizishiya ngemuva emgqonyeni. Isosha elishaya indlwabu izikhathi ezingu-30 ngosuku liyafa ngosuku olungaphambi kokuba libuyele ekhaya.
Okudabukisayo, isihogo, unya. Nondindwa. Esikhathini eside esidlule kwakuyeka ukwenza umqondo ukufuna izichasiso ezingakaze zithintwe ibhayisikobho nezincwadi ezichaza impi, umbhedo otholakala esintwini kusukela ekuzalweni kwayo kuze kube sekufeni kwayo. Vuliwe ukuthunyelwa kwempi (iphinde yakhishwa yi-Anagrama ngo-2013) azikho izichasiso, futhi lapho kukhona impumelelo yalo msebenzi, okuthi, kude nokusesha ama-epithets okusazocishwa, kunqunyelwe embukisweni osobala nolula.
Insangu kanye ne-napalm flavour. I-Machine Gun Roars, uJimi Hendrix no-Ottis Redding. Ehlome ngomoya we Capote, Tales y Wolfe, futhi kwaqondana ngesikhathi ne Indawo yokuhlatshwa kwesihlanu de Kurt Vonnegut, I-War Dispatches ishiya umuzwa ongakhululekile, njengombukiso wesekisi, ihlola enye yezinto ezinonya kakhulu futhi izikhathi eziningi kakhulu ezinganakwa amaqiniso alo mbhedo: ukuthi impi, futhi mhlawumbe neyaseVietnam ngaphezu kwanoma iyiphi enye yenkathi, kwakuyisekisi. eqhutshwa ohlanya futhi edlala abangenacala, ikakhulukazi izingane:
"Kwakukhona ukuhlushwa okuminyene okunjalo kwamandla aseMelika, aseMelika, futhi ngokuyisisekelo asemasha lapho, uma lawo mandla ayengadluliselwa kunoma yini enye ngaphandle komsindo, ukubhujiswa, nobuhlungu, ngabe ikhanyise i-Indochina iminyaka eyinkulungwane."