血战沙漠

真相就是美国为了消灭塔利班，用一个个小队作为测试新的神秘武器威力的牺牲品。最后CIA探员苏醒表明这一切完全在政府控制中，像上帝一样，探员本显然也不了解机密的真相。这一切真是让人细思极恐。影片在阿富汗战争的背景下，探讨了有关宗教 爱国与自我牺牲 政府的那种不折手段等等那个时期敏感的话题。

Many people don't get what the supernatural events were about in this movie. It is normal because it contains elements of common themes of ghosts and ufo. However, it deals with neither. Many of the events of the film makes sense if you understand occult lore of the Middle East surrounding creatures known as the Djinn. Forget about the Aladdin version of the Djinn. Mythological and occult lore of the Djinn is entirely different. Djinn are said to be of fire that doesn't burn. That is an ancient reference to electricity or magnetism. The word jinn in Arabic has the linguistic meaning of 'invisible' and it also shares the same linguistic root as the word 'mad'. Let's take a closer look at the movie... 1) The man in the cave is actually a sorcerer. The beings he was communicating with are the djinn. They are invisible to the naked eye, but they registered on the solider's equipment. He provided them water that turned into sand. Djinn in ancient lore are able to materialize things ranging from food to gemstones. However, they eventually turn to dust. 2) Evil tribes of the djinn such as the Beni Ghilan (followers of al-Ghoul) are believed to consume dead human flesh. 3) Ancient records detailing djinn materialization talk about strange sounds like 'buzzing bees' before they appear. In this movie, it is the buzzing sound of a chopper. 4) Magnetic phenomena....there is a little known Arabic text called the Green Island dating back to medieval morocco. This book talks about a man who was kidnapped by the djinn and taken to a magical island. He was returned to his village many years later. He left behind a make-shift map trying to point out where this magical island was. Modern researchers of the story tried to correlate the map with modern geographic data. They discovered that the instructions placed it somewhere in the middle of the Bermuda triangle. The mountain range appears to be another secret home of the djinn and thus seem to reflect strange magnetic phenomena. 5) Weird lights...the same old occult texts when discussing djinn manifestation refer to lights that suddenly appear and shine upon the sorcerer from which emerge strange figures (the djinn). 6) Ending....djinn are reported to have strong telepathic abilities and to be very secretive of their reality. The film's ending is about a man whose brain was scrambled by the djinn after being touched on the forehead by one of them. He got too close and he was neutralized and left behind as an example... I don't claim to know exactly what the script writer intended with all of those references. I am making an educated guess here based on the similarities (coincidental or intended) between the events of the movie and the ancient mythological narrative. Check out books such 'Book of Deadly Names' for more info on the djinn.

（有关键情节透露和解释，请先看完电影，电影则争议很大，请慎重选择）

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这是一部单纯描述探索未知神秘力量的电影，附加的意义可以有很多，但探索本身的意义十分单纯，完全不需要过度阐释。

片中要探索的神秘力量类似（而不是）“Vimanas”，字幕译成“神之战车”，似乎也没有错。Vimanas是古印度的飞行器，外观很象金字塔型的飞行堡垒，有战斗功能，现代经常将其解读为UFO在古文献中的记录。但本片中的“Vimanas”与之相比有较大不同，比如：形状是倒三角，肉眼中几乎无实体，而更接近光球和龙卷风的结合物。另有一种呈现，在黑夜中仿佛悬浮的巨大光球，现代武器可以击退。

电影用于体现神秘现象的成本非常小，效果却很不错。或许用于祭祀的木制图腾，热辐射成像仪映照的血红形状，夜视仪的绿基调中持刀的黑色鬼影，空中回荡的高声吟唱，男主由始至终死人般没有起伏的画外音，花样很多，起初不以为意，后期却层出不穷地堆积出诡异效应。

仿佛一块异世界让渡给地球的飞地，战士们以不新奇的方式在把握得极精妙的时间点上死去。

男主的形象在电影世界里独树一帜。身为CIA特别部门的一员，家中有感情和睦的美妻，他却独自奔赴阿富汗履行九死一生也未必有成果的任务。偷偷揣起酒瓶，拒绝与队友分享，再向他们隐藏巨大又绝望的秘密，引领他们进入必亡之地，以“为国捐躯”的荣耀安慰临终者，耐心听取“国家才不会知道我们”的正解，然后头也不回地走开，继续任务。

这个人，既残忍，又伟大。

其实离队出走的“队长”先他一步抵达了片尾的绿洲，却承受不起“神”之手指在额头的那一触。

在生命的最后一刻仍试图用机器记录资料的男主，接下了这一触。

毫无人性的故事突然给出浪漫的重击，人间鲜有不膝跪者。

而男主所在的那个特别部门，一去不回的特工有很多，很多。