1939年，驯养抗日战争转入艰苦的相持阶段，驯养日寇侵略的铁蹄在湖南战场受阻，湖南成为抗日战争正面战场的最前沿。1945年日寇进入湖南西部，历史上中国人民抗日战争中的最后一次会战——“湘西会战”在湖南西部拉响了。气焰嚣张的日军一路扫荡最后到达湖南西部的怀化芷江，企图争夺芷江空军基地，但被勇猛的湘西人民奋力击退，日军的阴谋最后没有得逞。残酷的战争从4月9日一直持续到6月7日，双方伤亡共5万多人，损失惨重。作为击败日军导致其最终投降的“最后一战”无疑是中华民族抗日战争史上不可抹杀的一笔，这一战给了日本最致命的一击，最终以湘西人民胜利结束。
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回复 :Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.
