As usual, I watched movies in the long-distance flights. This time I picked two war films, 1917 and Dunkirk, on the airplane to SFO en route.

The storyline of 1917 tells how did two British soldiers were assigned to take an almost impossible mission of bringing a written order from the headquater, by traversing German lines within a day, to inform the two detachment battalions of canceling a futile attack. Why not giving the order by phone? Because all the wires were cut off by German fire. You can see the terrifying trench war of WWI, particularly in the western front, though no bloody killings were illustrated.

Dunkirk tells that famous evacuation in WWII. It also demonstrates that sometimes a successful retreat in a battle is a great gain for future victory. But the similar case will not be applicable to Taiwan in case of the conflict taking place between the strait because the people of Taiwan have no way to run.